Category: holidays
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Reason #1 to Avoid Election News
Do you remember waiting for Christmas. Did you think it would never come. Every mention of the holiday, it felt further and further away. Does the man on death row see time speed up? His demise chasing him. An anxious majority opinion wants to know. 11-7-20
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halloween haiku
Halloween Fire PitIf any kids come by here,Candy & Marshmallows 10-31-20
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an anniversary meditation
dust motes shimmer through trees on sunbeams I sip coffee and read Hibakusha stories trees shake from an earthquake in the mountains I haven’t heard damage reports, but it will be mild _____ on the anniversary of Nagasaki I reflect 70,000 vaporized in a rush for peace children, mothers, fathers a Shinto shrine and Catholic…
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Fried hotdogs
Fried hot dogs split down the middle Yellow mustard on a plate green olives straight from the jar This is not health food or a recipe from Southern Living This is childhood memories hot summer days on the end of a fork You can savor and burp in the middle of the night 7-2-20
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and I think it’s going to rain today
(stream of consciousness poem) On my sixty-eighth birthday a tropical depression spins offshore and the forecast is for rain all week and I worry about whole beaches being torn from the shore and the song ‘And I Think It’s Going To Rain Today’ is caught in the riptide in my head and I curse Randy…
My husband's poetry 