Category: singing
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Billie
God Bless The Child crying on the stage shriveled raisin, Strange Fruit drying in the sun Swinging In The Rain lying at the mic Lady Sings The Blues dying on the stage 1-29-26
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Cicadas
All night they sing in the trees hoping to breed and some of them breed and those that don’t, sing and they sing all night and some of them sing all morning and into the afternoon until it is night, again and you wonder do they sing in shifts or do they sing while sleeping…
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Gibson’s war
After the war, After bodies were cleared, Mass graves dug up, Photographed and catalogued. After the rubble was pushed aside, and reconstruction begun, You found an abandoned instrument with broken strings. Because this was all you could handle and it did not stink of death, You thought of all the songs it had sung Cradled…
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throat singing
I wish I could read bird scratches poems in the key of longing in mud along the shore among half-digested bugs and worms hunger’s wet droppings while listening to chirps of yearning sung deep in the throat I wish I could scratch cuneiform on muddy scraps of paper begging to be found 1-14-22
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haiku sitting outside at coffee shop
light and bright and clear against discordant traffic small bird in bush sings 9-19-21
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haiku before the storm
ecstasy beckons and the sky asks you to dance how can you refuse? 9-15-21 *There is a video I don’t know how to transfer.
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Worship day
On Sunday, dog walkers sleep in Mowers and blowers slumber in sheds Old man gathering sticks in his yard Watches a bike rider disappear over hill Bull frog does its best impression of Barry White Booming bird calls in woods A friend of a vegan friend with COVID, texts Can you drop almond milk off…
My husband's poetry 