for someone else – Page 10 – My husband's poetry

meditations for a grey day

Mar 5, 2020

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in acceptance, covid, daily life, for someone else

Somewhere someone is marrying birthing graduating retiring dying mourning celebrating So have a Happy, Sad, Joyous, Sorrowful, Melodramatic, Laughing, Crying, Up or Down, in a Fucking Funk Fun Day! 3-5-20 (music of Richard & Mimi Farina in background…)

Front yards

Feb 14, 2020

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cfblack

in childhood, fear, for someone else, freedom, grief, sexism, violence

You want a house on the edge of town land enough for a garden, chickens and guinea hens You want a screened porch to keep mosquitoes at bay and a stately oak tree to day dream under You want a nice cafe and coffee shop to walk to an independent book store next to the…

haiku for a gentle friend

Feb 13, 2020

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cfblack

in for someone else, friends, grief, haiku, spiritual

gentle songs of loss bare feet sought ground’s redemption a night made holy 2-13-20

For Arelly Silverio Huerta

Jan 29, 2020

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cfblack

in corporate America, Family, for someone else, immigrants, Racial & Social justice, trauma, War & Politics

To the brave young girl from Mexico who read poetry on open mic for the first time I applaud your bravery your humanity your reading through tears Thank you for your poem about family about fear about hiding places about love I promise you these crimes against humanity will end and we will have our…

To a friend with a dying cat

Jan 6, 2020

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cfblack

in animals, Death & Afterlife, for someone else, grief, health /doctors /hospitals

I would tell you about a free kitten given to us when we were poor it got leukemia Cost us all kinds of money we didn’t have and the damn cat died anyway But you don’t want to hear about our expensive, free cat so I won’t tell you how Even though it was sick…

A Poem for Mark Galli – Thank You

Jan 2, 2020

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cfblack

in determination, Different, for someone else, habits, self transformation

Speak out even if no one listens Whisper if only your friends can hear Sit silent and they believe you approve 1-2-20

Happy Holidays

Dec 20, 2019

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cfblack

in Family, for someone else, friends, happiness, holidays

During this holiday season (Yes, I said holiday season) I wish you fond memories I wish you family and friends I wish you recovery from loss I wish you joy, happiness and good cheer I wish you whatever you wish for this time of year I wish you eight bright Hanukkah candles I wish you…

Insomnia

Dec 11, 2019

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cfblack

in Belonging / Loneliness, corporate America, Death & Afterlife, for someone else, friends, grief, humbleness, inflation money poverty, Kindness, regrets, work

In the middle of the night it is worse – everything is quiet you feel rain on the roof smell dry leaves rustle in trees hear musty spores propagate in the yard outside your door You sit on the edge of your bed trying to calm the swirling feels that keep you awake at night…

Coaching Soccer on Elysium Fields

Nov 2, 2019

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cfblack

in Death & Afterlife, for someone else, friends, grief, regrets, sports

I still think of you and wonder if I had been home when you came by and if we had talked, things might be different but I wasn’t home and we never spoke Last night, I watched an artist paint a skeleton face on pavement at a street festival and had to leave because you…

Bentz’s birthday party

Oct 27, 2019

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in for someone else, friends, holidays, music, rain, Song/Singer

On Bentz’s 66th birthday we stood under umbrellas in the rain black plastic covered music speakers Red Shack Pickers played on a covered stage On Bentz’s 66th birthday no one danced barefoot in the mud but a frog leaped about in wet grass and disappeared under the stage On Bentz’s 66th birthday some gave up…

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