My husband's poetry

Category: love

  • requiem for a K-Mart shopper

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    At a Blue Light Special, they met. Only one sub sandwich left. He offered to share. She accepted. Decades later, He sat beside her hospice bed Praying to share her pain. His doctor advised him to avoid Cheap lunch meat and white bread; He does not care anymore. At the Walmart Subway counter He pays…

  • Festival dancer

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    low slung pants, mid-riff top rainbow painted eyes dances at the stage with lighted hoops moves to music in hips and feet she lives in the moment, the movement and the adulation little girls love her and she loves them back 8-20-23

  • a snake eating its tail

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    every end is a beginning of something new accept it and move on obsess over an ending and you may miss a new beginning 9-2-23

  • Jenga romance

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    Poem written to the prompt, Demolition: ‘Jenga Romance’ Every morning, they took out knives, and hand-crafted Jenga blocks, stacked them on the table until they had a classic set. Every evening, they took turns in a game of demolition. She texted him from her office to make his move. Tired of the ruse that the…

  • The deluge

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    cfblack
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    I lied awake all night, listened to it rain, fell asleep again and again and dreamed unfitfully. ____ I dreamed all the mourning mothers of all the wars ever fought gathered in the next world and held a wake filled with songs of grief. The walls of heaven’s mansions shook and fell to dust. They…

  • The Astrophysics of Mental Health

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    He read that in the darkness between stars galaxies exist their brilliance obscured by bodies of light spinning closer to his perch in space and somehow this lifted his depression if only for a moment A fish rose out of the water flashed in the sun water dripping from its scales before splashing back into…

  • Poem for a broken heart

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    A match burns Lights candles and cigarettes Kindles a fire to warm your body Destroys a house Starts a forest fire A match burns Water flows Carries mountains to the sea Will quench a thirst, Cool a drink in solid form Brew coffee in the morning Soothe tired feet at night Water mirrors your face…

  • Jenny wren

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    when she was young she asked her husband to build her a tiny Jenny Wren house painted blue as a summer sky a small dowel rod for a front porch hung it in the old apple tree every spring she watched tiny wrens move in once a storm took down the old tree and she…

  • Because

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    because their past long term relationships fell apart they exchanged apartment keys on the first date and inspected each other’s bathroom, refrigerator, closets and whether they made their bed that morning because after the dew is off the lily it’s the little domestic things that matter 11-18-23

  • Prison wall graffiti

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    creatures of habit seem detached need familiar spaces and alone time tough creatures tougher still to be married to living in their skin a prison cell 11-24-23