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To Donna, Cassady, Kayla, Eve and Shea for John Thomas Kelly Jr. 3/6/2011
I remember us as children… Dancing to merry tunes and wearing pristine white dresses like little brides on our First Communion Day… and kelly green Girl Scout uniforms…. You with bouncing brown curls and shining eyes the rosiest cheeks and the sweetest of smiles… Who grew up and a wonderful man fell in love with…
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Hiding Amongst Words
I am no where to be found as I disappearing in between the space of inconsequential words and thoughtless feelings Barely as a shadow I exist and only flutter to life when a true kindness is said and tentatively become content Warmth flows in and I am whole for a while till the next time…
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Letting Go
No more will I look to mountain tops and think of wild kisses and shivers down my spine No more will a song cause me to pause and remember for I am finally letting go after all this time I know now we were never to be we were just a brief dream a wonderful…
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Thought of the Day
When someone sees they wrongs’ as rights’ they don’t have a conscious by default.
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Just My Lot
Have you crossed serious roads and not looked back? Part of your brain sees “destination,” another part the walking that “goads” the doing though lacking directions. Alone is final, for then there is no one to say the pillar of salt behind could have been you.
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construct
with apologies to Padgett Powell if you could catch a swallow or swallow a ketch, which would work for you? the way language wends its way thru us is still mysterious & twisted by “inner” logic unknown the thought to word movement is unfathomable. do you search for the word & no one works at…
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A Love Story
Trouble, mounted, waters running shy. Win, mirrored as poltergeist of place that’s long been forgotten in futures that have left a place for us Sticks and blood, we and heat, as friction, rubbing incessantly, in to, oblivion. Fire, smoke broken, wars. Dual placements evaporate as pressure, – heat – takes us, as well. Mounted, clouds,…
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Dearest James, Jackie & Family
Even thought She has left this life She is not gone She has not left you She glows inside you She shines so bright She is your light within Feel her warmth Take heart You Are never alone Her love is in you Around you Always Infinitely Be not sad Celebrate her Honour her by…
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Stay
You left me with no choice With scattered lines of treacherous poems, riddled in excess, waiting for more I’ve landed within grounds, fertile and bold Manageable halls, turning, to boundless wombs And my thought is still lost in you Fragments with no image, sound, just raw remembrance Your fragrance, and my love, make knots In…