Stories tagged poem

This love.

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- Never in pain and distance - Frown on these moments, With bitterness and vain

Certainty

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All I know about the futureis that every one alwaysgets to exactly where they are.

To Be Cleopatra

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I am the sand, I am the breeze, I am the lightning. I am the King

Hey Hey It's Okay

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Over by the swimming pool singing - Hey hey it’s okay - A line from a song he heard - On the stereo when we were driving in the car - On the way to sign the papers to get - His grandfather released from the hospital

The Room

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Not really a story but a look at how we live

Signs, like Burma Shave ads, by the side of the road approaching Tyler, Kansas, Pop. 4,757

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“ Billy, if you're coming home and see this …” “Just keep right on going, past the grocery …” “Past the little shrine in front of Rita's rosegarden …” “With the toilet bowl grotto and…

In the Flower Shop

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You start with whatever is laying at hand

Posy

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I hear you calling me, as if through water spilled within a glass--

Jack Noodle

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So you printed your resume on this coffee cup - that’s something - I wanted you guys to think about me every morning - while you were getting your coffee

Stone Wall

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If only I could tell where one stone ends,

Bombs Keep Falling

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Written for the City of Lost Children Challenge: it's just a bomb, silly

At Your Father’s Cabin in Canadian August

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The late Canadian summer, it washes away false intentions and it tells the truth amid few distractions

entwined

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you and i exist outside of the chaos and noise entwined in eternal embrace

Power Outage

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Three times, Dad, you died on the table...

Cradle

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Fingers fan like birds’ wings cradling the volume, head hanging low and lips moving silently...