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Oh, Margaret

Monday, June 21st, 2010

Margaret and I met and married in 1990.  It was late that year or early in 1991 when I wrote this poem.  And sometime in the years that followed, I lost the original copy.  So on January 31, 2010, I rewrote the poem.  It is certainly possible that I have made some minor changes, but the concept and thoughts all remain.

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Oh, Margaret, I’m glad you’re in my life

and glad you consented to be my wife.

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I’m very glad that I love you

and glad you feel the same way, too.

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I’m glad you bring me so much joy

and glad that you are not a boy.

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Snow

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Although I wrote this 38 years and 6 days ago, it sure fits the weather here in Lafayette, Indiana, today.

Gently falling, pure and white,

it make the earth so clean and bright.

A blanket covers valley and hill,

all is silent, all is still.

The maple stands half white, half brown;

half a smile, half a frown.

Nothing moves that I can see,

no tracks to mar the white beauty.

Down it drifts, three inches, four!

Still it comes and there’ll be more.

Daylight passes, twilight, too;

all in sight turns hazy blue.

The stars are shining, the moon is bright;

they twinkle gayly on flakes of white.

The beauty on the ground, extended from the skies;

a wonder to behold, a symphony for the eyes.

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One-way Love

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

This was written November 21, 1971.

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I’ve tried love,
I’ve tried and tried;
Everytime
It seems I’ve cried.

Is love sent
From God above?
Why does He send
A one-way love?

A one-way love
Is all I could find,
Now I can’t get
It off my mind.

Oh, yes! My love,
One way was true;
But now you’re gone
You’ve left me blue.

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No Poem Today

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

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I will write no poem today.
I have no message to convey.
Surely it cannot be this way.
There must be something I wish to speak about.

I could speak of a cat that’s black,
or maybe a childhood friend named Jack,
or sinister things like a torture rack,
or evil drugs like heroin or cocaine.

In my head there rings a chime
to tell me that it is a crime
that somehow, maybe, just this time,
I cannot make the last word sound like it should.

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One a Day

Monday, February 1st, 2010

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I compose poems, one a day,
It’s how I say what I want to say.

If I keep going at this rate,
I’ll soon have enough to bore the whole state.

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You Are Everything

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

This was written November 11, 1971.

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You are my night of restful slumber.

You are a cool drink on the desert.

You are vision and bright colors to the man without sight.

You are a song of hope, a song of joy.

You are laughter in the eyes of children at play.

You are everything.

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You are velvet to my fingertips.

You are honey to my lips.

You are a sweet melody to my ears.

You are a rose to my nostrils.

You are the Goddess of Love to my heart.

You are everything.

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You are everything.

I am one thing.

I am yours!

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Food for the Aging

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

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Oh, dentures mine, there in the cup,

with you in there I cannot sup,

So you I’ll wash and scrub and clean,

then eat brown bread and veggies green.

But I can’t have corn on the cob,

nor for red apples will I bob.

It’s not that apples I can’t grip,

but my toupee off my head will slip.

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