War & Politics – Page 14 – My husband's poetry

H.O.R.S.E.

May 1, 2022

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Who decided to spell H.O.R.S.E. that this was the way to see who was the best shot in the neighborhood? Today, I watched young kids play H.O.R.S.E. and doubt they ever rode a horse at summer camp or enjoyed Roy Rogers on TV Shoot to disarm and never to kill dreamed of crying High Oh…

for Nora Valdez

Apr 23, 2022

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cfblack

in for someone else, immigrants, Racial & Social justice

After waiting a million years to be undressed from stone she’s thankful it was a woman who held the chisel. She waits on Lady Street with swollen feet and a child on each hip for a bus, for food, a home, for politicians to stop playing politics …because it’s not a game. 4-23-22

Kyiv couture

Feb 23, 2022

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cfblack

in War & Politics

Dressing up in Kevlar and gas masks, Combat boots and fatigues, Window dressing of diplomatic posturing, Advertisements for economic sanctions, Rose red liquid bouquets Arrive by air and land, Candlelit dinner dates of canned rations Are all the rage this Spring 2-23-22

High cotton

Feb 22, 2022

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cfblack

in Belonging / Loneliness, Racial & Social justice, the South

I’m from ‘knee high by the fourth of July’ Detasseled corn in a hell hole of hot August sun Soon as I was able to gather money at another job I left and never looked back I live in the land of ‘standing in high cotton’ Old money there is not forgotten Two job slavery…

The grooming of Daisy

Feb 7, 2022

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cfblack

in flowers, sexism

Because they wanted Daisy to grow up straight, They displayed her in the front window And turned her inward If she leaned into the sun When her roots outgrew the pot They transplanted her in a flower bed And there she flourished until a passing stranger Pulled off her petals one by one, playing loves…

coffee with cream

Jan 23, 2022

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cfblack

in Racial & Social justice, War & Politics

Reading the news you realize the war never ended like World War II is World War I on a grander scale and World War I was unfinished business of Napoleon and the Crimean War was just taking a half-time break while Russia aired ads about being cheated on the sale of Alaska and play will…

January 6th

Jan 6, 2022

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cfblack

in friends, Kindness, love, neighbors, Racial & Social justice

He lives across the street, two doors down He drives a maroon pickup and waves each day on his way inside his house One morning in the park, while watching the sun paint shadows on the pond I heard, “Howdy Neighbor,” turned around and there he was on a cane He told me he had…

Talking with Mary

Dec 6, 2021

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cfblack

in immigrants, Racial & Social justice, spiritual

On the week before, the week before, the week before Christmas I haven’t shopped at Jared’s or Kay’s or Zale’s Because diamonds have more to do with blood than love, but I was talking with a friend Who said she walks to church each morning But does not go to mass She said she lights…

Dear Raphael

Oct 25, 2021

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cfblack

in beauty, sexism, spiritual

Paint me a laughing Madonna with postpartum belly rolls and hips Joseph in the foreground fashioning a new crèche Her wooly headed baby suckling a swollen nipple Little hands playing with her other breast All of them laughing and laughing at their good fortune 10-25-21

Freedom

Oct 20, 2021

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cfblack

in flowers, freedom, Kindness

What city landscape architect had money left over in their budget To throw away on a fence for only one side of a pond; Any child or old man can walk around? On the water side of the fence, a Fall flurry of flowers grows white and wild. On my side of the wire, two…

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