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Ode To The Parting Gift

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Margaret told me all the answers
He had told her where it was, but only once.
He spoke softly, which was not like him
nor was saying things only once.

Margaret asked me if I remembered all the answers
Then she whispered them quietly under her breath
Her eyes darted up to me, had I noticed?
The indent on the couch he left?

Margaret Listened, the school bell was ringing.
He was walking her by the Old Margam Mill.
She didn’t like the way he was always talking
Now she listens for him still.

How Clouds Behave

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Is it chronic or persistent the way they go?

Will today draw them fast or slow?

Thin and long, round and old

With graying sides and a picture show?

I see faces there of Hercules

or a fallen child with skinned up knees.

Never cornered or caged in

but simply molded by the wind

that blows my back and sets my sights

on things out of reach and a bit too high

 

So, “Its not fair”

the way things are and aren’t,

are words for smog filled cars.

Life beneath these boundless clouds

It’s clearer now

Ode to The Slime

Liberty SlimeEden Slime

It all started for a mere 99 cents

A simple reward for a poopin event

you ran to the potty

I ran to the store

for slime in a bottle

who could want anything more?

 

It was small.

It was purple.

It did not stink.

So why is it bubbling, out of my sink?

 

It was soft.

It was cool.

It’s lid could close.

So why is it stuffed, inside the dog’s nose?

 

And what in the name of parenting,

caused me to think

that buying more products,

to make this Slime thing,

would be educational?

Would be fun?

Lord help me

there’s Borax,

there’s glue stuck like gum,

I mixed it with shaving cream!

It’s attached to my thumbs!

each child for themselves

everyone run!

 

Ok, sit back

Let’s take a deep breath

They’ll thank me one day…isn’t that right?

I can scrub the floor, when they’re asleep tonight.

And smile on Facebook

And say, ‘oh how I’m gonna miss this.’

But, first, who wrapped that slime

around the cat’s dish?

 

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Listen

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I have not heard you for awhile

amidst the thunder and the rage

I have not heard your tortured heart

as it rattled in its cage

 

They told me you’re a racist

and I’m a bigot too

They said there is no unity

for the likes of me and you

 

They told me that your children

were not the same as mine

They told me that your children

will always cut in line

 

But today I saw our children

laughing side by side on God’s hot sand

Dancing on the pain they felt

As they hopped toward cooler land

 

At the sea’s salty shoreline

they collapsed, eye to laughing eye

Listen

There is kindness in that laughter

for the likes of you and I

 

No one told them this was impossible

That they were bound to a profile cage

No one told them they were angry

And had to rattle this beach with rage

 

I looked at you

you looked at me

our phones screaming in our hands

Facebook,CNN, Fox News and Hannity

All giving us commands

 

You are this

and I am that

What’s the truth in all we’re missing?

Let’s fall down

embrace our children’s laughter

and Listen

Listen

 

 

 

 

 

Dead Poets Post

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Song of the month: Never Once:  by Matt Redman

My dead poet post for the month is my all time favorite dead woman preacher, poet, rescuer of Children, writer…

Miss Amy Charmichael….applause…..Thank you Amy for guest posting for me this month. Happy fourth of July…..even though you were an Irish woman living in India in 1895, just over a hundred years after our first declaration of independence …still, it’s a happy fourth for you too cause you got rid of all us rowdy Americans from your once cramped, yet beautiful, rainy, scone-scrumptious  continent.

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