Family – Page 5 – Another Fearless Year

April 16, 2016

Oh Ramona

The sun rises high In the cerulean sky The wind comes like manna Out of Santa Ana The brown weed field Naught but thorns does yield In the one-story houses The ungrateful one grouses Pool parties and a picnic feast Friends come from north and...

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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April 2, 2016

Sweet Scent of Rain

The wafting scent of petrichor Will remind me forevermore Of streets lined with eucalyptus Where my friends and I played, thus Those were the days of fun and cheer Memories that I hold so dear Before, before the terror came And life was no longer...

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March 31, 2016

Mama Bear

The mama grizzly languishes lazily beneath the old pine tree observing her three cubs frolic and play in the sunshine At first glance she appears unconcerned almost docile But make no mistake if one should threaten the safety of her dear cubs her fervent concern will...

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March 10, 2016

The One-Eyed Wonder

I tell my dog to stay so he promptly sits He just wants to play It’s a battle of wits A quick game of fetch fits with the cat’s added comedy when he jumps and flits It seemed like quite the tragedy when the poor dog...

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March 10, 2016

My Dear Son

Twenty-one years ago today You came into our lives You brought love for each day By tens and twenties and fives For you I’m writing a rhyming verse Because that is the good kind Though I know you’re not averse To stories intertwined I am...

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March 8, 2016

The Notebook

The small notebook languished at the bottom of a dark drawer its pages filled with lists of vegetables, partial poems Ingredients lists for salads and stews long since cooked and eaten but not necessarily forgotten Poem bits inspired late at night by verses careening through...

Poetry Comments: 27

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...

Poetry Comments: 26

January 6, 2016

Alive and Well

A puff wafts from the doorway of the old building I scrunch up my nose at the scent, shake my head in disgust or anger perhaps is a more accurate description of my feeling I don’t smell it often in these days of indoor smoking...

Poetry Comments: 16

November 18, 2015

Daddy Isn’t Here

Daddy isn’t here anymore He left this world before my son was born Yet I see him each day in the heart of my son The length of his arms and the smile I adore We didn’t follow Daddy to the church When he was gone...

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Another Fearless Year

Tag: Family

Oh Ramona

I Never Said Goodbye

Sweet Scent of Rain

Mama Bear

The One-Eyed Wonder

My Dear Son

The Notebook

She Always Called Me Sweetie

Alive and Well

Daddy Isn’t Here

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Oh Ramona

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