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May 16, 2016

Envious

I’m green with envy Hearing you complain About having to care for Your aging father It’s such a burden you say What I wouldn’t give To be planning my daddy’s 95th birthday party today But there’s no party No celebration Only wishing him near __________________________________ The...

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April 4, 2016

I Never Said Goodbye

January is the cruelest month despite it’s shimmer of hope It’s when cancer took you I was twenty-three Hadn’t yet made amends for the pain I caused you Still drowning in my own Your death only added to the shame of not measuring up ________________________________ This quadrille...

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March 22, 2016

It Was Murder

It was murder, pure and simple He was an innocent man the perfect spotless Lamb and they murdered Him If it weren’t for Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea His body would have been devoured by a murder of crows _______________________________________ The Poetics prompt at dVerse...

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March 7, 2016

Choices

A forced grin a false I’m okay are all I’ve got It’s been three years, three years today since you left with me not knowing not for sure anyway where you have gone Heaven or hell those are the choices Which did you choose? ___________________________________ At...

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February 16, 2016

She Always Called Me Sweetie

The little room was suffocating I sat there with my sister Suz, my brother-in-law Dick, and the shell of my sister Peggy I wouldn’t have known it was Peggy in the bed if Suz hadn’t also been there I hadn’t seen Dick in 28 years; he’d...

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January 15, 2016

I See God

I’m going to pretend that this rain in the lane Heralds the arrival of spring when birds sing As through this long winter I trod I see God The robin finds worms in rain-soaked sod More death and winter the nightly news portends Yet new life and...

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