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  December 2023     5 months ago

Submitted Poems 4 total

Danger Is Stalking

Hush, hush, little one,
Lay still in your nest.
Danger is stalking
On winds from the west.
If you are to live,
You must heed what I say,
The killer approaches,
And you are his prey.
I can protect you,
With secrets I've learned.
But you...

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cement hills

When the hills were still grass
Instead of cement
And we knew where the hours
of each day went,
We'd ride on our horses
Along dusty trails
Over the hills
And down through the swales
The hot summer sun
Felt good on our backs,
We'd water...

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memories

The years grow short as I grow old,
Not surprising so I'm told.
And memories, stretched thin by time,
Float and shimmer through my mind.
Like faded snapshots in a book,
They call at me to pause and look.
And I can spend some time with them,
...

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Unchained

He was living his life at the end of a chain,
Every day brought more of the same.
Thirty feet in any direction, an endless space for his
inspection.

 A rusty pail of dirty water
A pile of guts from a chicken slaughter.
A wooden box turned on...

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