Category: for someone else
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One mile from home
waiting for the rain to end so I can walk in the park, watch the turtles and geese and if I am inspired I’ll write a poem for a northern friend who deserves better than she got in life, but says she is happy for her children and would go through hell, again, if it…
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spring haiku poker with Maris Burton:
I’ll cover your bulbs raise you morning glory seeds and iris rhizomes 2-28-24
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When
I guzzle Gatorade after a good workout rain drops smear the dirt on my windshield cell phone vibrates, 745 area code someone from back home Hi, this is John (Ball State1970) I took his class on violence he was still ABD, we became friends he asks how have I been – I say great he…
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Loneliness
He misses Chinese carryout for two, his ex-girlfriend’s mother and son, the thought of being needed. He blames their breakup on COVID, Fox News and conspiracy theories. He said he was too mad to pray. It was too recent and raw to attempt to talk common sense. So I just sat and tried to be…
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Reedy’s mirror
coffee with a friend Moon River rhymes with Spoon River free verse anthology about dead people restless adolescents weren’t ready are we ready now? tobacco jaundiced time portal walks by on stranger’s finger tips you couldn’t or wouldn’t sit quiet so dad held twitchy hands tight in pew two lifetimes later – right hand holds…
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for a friend who just died
edge walker man teeters on the edge catch him if you can heading for the border he was bound to cross the line force of nature – force of good edge walker man plowed a long furrow follow if you can 1-21-24
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When
I guzzle Gatorade after a good workout rain drops smear the dirt on my windshield cell phone vibrates, 745 area code someone from back home Hi, this is John (Ball State1970) I took his class on violence he was still ABD, we became friends he asks how have I been – I say great he…
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haiku for George Fox
walk into the light and your shadow will never darken your footsteps Composed during meditation at Columbia Friends Meeting House during George Fox’s birthday observance.1-7-24
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How to Survive a Conversation with a Narcissist
Tell me your requirements for love and I will tell you that is not love. 12-20-23
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Poet tea
in Larry’s kitchen water simmers on stove light through blinds climbs the dining room wall outside we feed the chimenea old newspapers, talk cultural appropriation, Sufi poets, Herbert, Milton, Shakespeare, Donne, and how imperfect fruit tastes sweeter than grocery store perfection, while we sip tea in the sunshine until the fire burns out 12-20-23
My husband's poetry 