Tag: family
group name: poetinaction
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May 16, 2008 03:05 AM EDT --
two people
met somewhere in their life
they don't remember when
it doesn't matter
they get to know each other better
even if they don't want to
because not wanting . . . more
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February 09, 2008 11:56 AM EST --
You turned your head,
closed your eyes
while your little girl
. . . more
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April 22, 2008 08:17 PM EDT --
No cables
No signature labels
No presidential tables
But I keep on coming back
No aircons
No recreations
No healthy conversations
But I keep on coming back to this
. . . more
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May 08, 2008 11:26 PM EDT --
MAMA WAS A TAXI
©Robert Burnham
Mama was a taxi
She drove us everywhere
She took us all to practices
And read a book while she waited there
Mama was a . . . more
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January 22, 2008 10:34 AM EST --
The warm ray of sunshine has gone behind me.
I feel it but am unable to turn around.
I feel a sense of darkness.
What has happened to me?
I must turn around.
Find the beacon that . . . more
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January 22, 2008 12:22 AM EST --
For everyone who has feared life was passing them by and leaving them lonely. If you ask the Lord, and wait on the Lord, He can make agreat difference in your future for he can place someone very . . . more
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February 07, 2008 09:23 PM EST --
"There is only one happiness in life,
to love and be loved."
- George Sand -
Now I don't know who George Sand is. I probably could look him up, that is if I wasn't thinking . . . more
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March 29, 2008 08:43 PM EST --
LINCOLN LOGS and TINKER TOYS
© Robert C Burnham
Lincoln Logs and Tinker Toys
Life was simpler then
All I wanted was to build a home
And with a wife . . . more
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January 17, 2008 03:30 PM EST --
Mama used to say
It smells like snow ,
and I didn't understand,
but knew that when she said it,
snow was surely coming.
Daddy would put chains on his truck,
and . . . more
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October 07, 2007 12:46 AM EDT --
The last two days, I feel my emotions gripping me like a pair of boa constrictors. I thought it would be cathartic to list everyone's rant for the day.
I will begin:
I hate when my children . . . more
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October 17, 2007 10:03 AM EDT --
I was listening to one of my favorite talk show hosts this morning when I nearly coughed up blood. I couldn't believe what I heard. He talked about his problem with alcoholism and that . . . more
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March 16, 2008 12:47 PM EST --
Yesterday I saw
Mom and Dad;
I re-read reviews of the twelve
Plays my mother starred in
1970 through 1982;
(she said she carries a list of the plays
with her in her purse; that's telling) . . . more
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November 20, 2007 09:46 AM EST --
Recently someone gave to me a copy of "The Moral Compass" edited by William J Bennett as a companion to his previous compilation; "The Book of Virtues". Last night, within its . . . more
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December 26, 2007 04:28 PM EST --
( A curious thing happened in writing this poem to my daughter this Christmas. As I was writing it, I realized that not only was I writing it to her...I was writing it to the inner child inside . . . more
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September 07, 2007 09:37 AM EDT --
I'm wating for the Cable guy to come and Im at home in Oklahoma. What are you doing and where are you doing it?
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November 02, 2007 11:24 PM EST --
I have about the best life of anyone I know. So why do I feel like this? I recognized something interesting a couple of days ago, what my doctor calls depression, I call anger. No one put . . . more
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September 07, 2008 07:04 PM EDT --
Evading any reminiscence
for the price i paid should i credit vision?
for averting and shortening the breath
adding activity to nerves, each respective nerve in breadth
it was in the kitchenware . . . more
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September 28, 2008 10:05 AM EDT --
I would like to thank the late Adelaide 'Sarah' Pollard for making the following possible. Her wonderful and famous hymn has been playing in my head throughout this week. At first . . . more
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September 08, 2007 11:11 AM EDT --
In my town we have a dead sixteen year old girl. The news played the 911 tape of her parents screaming for help. You could hear the girl pleading not to be taken out of the home. Her . . . more
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October 13, 2007 01:38 AM EDT --
When I was about ten years old, all the neighbors were gathered talking about the neighborhood tragedy. One of our neighbor's 21 year old daughter was getting ready for bed. She had on . . . more
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