Diary of a Poet
Dear Reader
I do hope you find some lines that touch your heart, or sing to your soul, as you read this!
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23JAN24
Memory reminds me of a passionate kiss
while the warmth of hundreds of your smiles fills my mind
Each time we are together simply turns to bliss
as echoes of I Love You ease this heart still blind
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24JAN24
A car is in the driveway as my life is falling apart
so should I answer the door or just pretend I fell asleep
But it turns out to be this angel who is stealing my heart
who keeps giving me memories that I always want to keep
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25JAN24
I remember laughs over the phone and eggs over easy
and then surprise good mornings at the very start of my day
Then talk of things that even teenagers would think are cheesy
but I am quite enthusiastic about this chance to play
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26JAN24
It is hilarious that I would be giving cooking advice
this grilled cheese and Instant Pot chef who eats salad four times a week
This crazy poet man who dives right in without asking the price
who would so quickly make a consort of this fine lady so meek
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27JAN24
Just moments amongst our trembling Earth
we speak and hear and no one says a word
Yet along the line hearts have a rebirth
while the lines we have drawn are slowly blurred
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28JAN24
Hugging and kissing and lying with you might be my favorite thing
such comfort at last after a four year winter that just was so cold
Fatefully following an evening of joyous together and sing
I could not be more happy with this bashful little woman's new bold
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29JAN24
All of a sudden you are so much more important than yesterday
or maybe the moves that we have made are making it more acute
I feel obliged so show concern but also stay out of the way
feigning mature to off kilter offers that could make this all moot
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30JAN24
Well the steamer did not work but they say it's the thought that counts
was left unattended so the outcome was tainted by that
The time it took without one shirt done and I just had to bounce
and more interaction with you is really where it is at
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31JAN24
How can we just go about our lives as if all is the same
we held each other close while kissing as if lips were just born
Is it not our duty now to feed ourselves to our hearts' flame
I want to push and want to be pulled and desire is torn
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1FEB24
At the end of agonizing have we found feelings of hope
were years of searching both of us spent leading us to this now
Are some things not seen until hanging from the end of your rope
were we meant to fall into the awkward of this love somehow
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2FEB24
I am fasting from sleep with all this editing for the show
while you fast for the doctor to jump through the hoops that they make
So that on both sides of the tracks there are clues we are in grow
though it seems like we tiptoe around two hearts barely awake
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3FEB24
Then suddenly the floodgates of never have let loose their flow
after an odd date night and some banter their depths were achieved
Now I see this new woman with her eyes and feelings aglow
humbled by the gifts of new possibilities here received
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4FEB24
I wake up late on Sunday and wonder if the computer will crash
a visit to Emily and then it's off to the grocery store
And Georgia is on my mind before I started the avocado dash
this loving and living apart is new but my heart cries out for more
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5FEB24
When the whole universe is involved it's such an easy ride
things just sort of fall into place and you cannot help but smile
Oh this is what I feel like when you are lying by my side
as if you were meant to come along and make it all worthwhile
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6FEB24
I did not know his woman whose gaze avoided me and was so cold
I was completely unaware that you had used your love for the day
All this talk of honest and authentic imagined me shades of bold
when true love just might have advised me to simply stay out of your way
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7FEB24
Imagine my surprise to see you sent selfies in a text
most certainly would not have wagered seeing that for awhile
I did not expect you to have me guessing what might be next
could it be that some selfie you will wear that beautiful smile
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8FEB24
You came to me on the hugging stool with kisses like before
then we sat with sodas like happy kids and talked with our smiles
But soon you had enough of that for your kisses wanted more
glad we made the adult decision to love like juveniles
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9FEB24
I wake up to a smiling good morning from my little doll
again having tossed and turned and got up to play on the phone
It seems the universe always offers comfort past befall
and what better for two souls who only saw future alone
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10FEB24
In a public place on Monday just hoping to catch her eye
then an appointment for hugs and kisses middle of the week
Yet there is so much more that I would paint with together's dye
before coming work season's disappear turns it all to bleak
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11FEB24
I hope you had lots of fun singing at the legion last night
tax papers are ready for me to drop off in the morning
While I wait so patiently to reenact our lovers' rite
so eager to make memories for future days' adorning
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11FEB24 #2
Happy Valentine's Day
A song and dance a year ago
then a date back in September
The awkward hugs we came to know
that hot kiss we both remember
Then holding hands but not too long
and you dared ask me for a poem
Then one day you were feeling strong
and my embrace became your home
Yet still a mood could wires cross
you were afraid to let me in
Possible kisses were the loss
I was afraid it was chagrin
But my full throttle is no guide
so patience has to be my part
Yet each day passed you know I tried
and you know that you hold my heart
Please remember this special day
if you find me not in your arms
That you can choose another way
and we can set off the alarms!!!
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12FEB24
You act as if there are times I would not wish you to be close
no part of me wants to be very far from your tender touch
The poet in me wants nothing less than complete overdose
my only hope is but to be trapped within my lover’s clutch
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13FEB24
Four hours of sleep later and there's just enough snow to brush
I Google a Taylor Swift short film about some lovers' hell
Feels like time is ticking far too fast but still we should not rush
and I hope I never get to know you even close to all too well
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14FEB24
Wonder if the mail man might have delivered that card I wrote
you were quiet yesterday I know the taxes were not fun
I am sitting by the hug stool hoping it has become rote
pretending not to be needy when you have become my sun
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15FEB24
On your visit with no naked you asked me to take you to my bed
cold air did not seem to bother you in snuggle under flannel sheets
Memories of giggles kisses and smiles with the light on fill my head
once again amazed to hear the echo of two passionate heart beats
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16FEB24
Sometimes I forget where you have gone or even who is there
but I see the stool and remember hugs from the other day
Just knowing that you are not far and your heart is full of care
drips joy endlessly into everything I do or say
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17FEB24
Friday you hung out down in Massachusetts with your daughter
while I sang with Bonnie and Andy at the Panda Gourmet
Barely escaping the trunk of the Lincoln and its slaughter
with Bad Company and Night Ranger as the worst of my fray
Stumbling into the late of February on a date
so hoping I feel the gentle of your fingers on my hand
Falling into the expanse of love not a moment too late
knowing that it was not a thing we were meant to understand
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18FEB24
You think you shame me into dinner dates as you teach me to be a man
helping me to tend a woman who blooms into love's flower by my side
I cannot make you see how beautiful you are or are much better than
but if I pull you close enough you will see the reflection you denied
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19FEB24
We sat together at our restaurant while they shut it down
then we held hands and laughed together watching Family Feud
We tried again to give whatever we got its proper crown
walking forward through the charred remains that our past loves have strewed
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20FEB24
I pretend to know you better than I do as I mention your name in an ad
hopefully I have not crossed yet another line that you must accept or ignore
It's the twentieth of the month amidst a conspiracy of making me glad
while I wait as patiently as possible with a heart that is screaming for more
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21FEB24
Bad news drops like the end of the world and I still have a career
that first date was in September and like adults we took it slow
Out past all that we could know somehow we have found a new frontier
as we set sail on the sea of love with our lifetimes now in stow
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22FEB24
I force myself out of bed at six to prepare for the season's melee
the stool sat alone last night as preparations did not afford its use
There is a conspiracy surrounding us intent our love to waylay
while I wonder in what new loving way I might be able to seduce
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23FEB24
What once was a special day is now just Friday in the cold
while the wretched end to the past is the gateway to the new
While a part of me still wants to pen those stories getting old
I am overcome with new desire to immerse in you
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24FEB24
Went to bed early
and then I set the alarm just in case
sound asleep at six thirty when the music started to play
The leather of the season has forgotten the touch of lace
hope my heart is still soft enough after those years of decay
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25FEB24
Only ten months till Christmas and I got to unwrap my favorite gift
life is nothing like I thought it might be but better than all I could dread
The winds of change sure blew a storm yet the tide of love lets us softly drift
so I cling to the tender of your touch and echo of sweet things you said
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26FEB24
Each morning I visit Emily and she always seems to make me cry
usually in her silence or sending out the love bomb to all life out there
It’s comforting to know you are building a life from the very same dye
and that even with dissimilar pasts we find we have so much to share
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27FEB24
Alas the last song for my season has been sung
visits are shorter and earlier in the day
The echoes of I Love You still tickle my tongue
preparations for all too busy have their way
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28FEB24
I wake up often as I try to twist my day back into grueling
there is a package in the mail that just might turn our world upside down
The dump truck call and my desire to spend time with you are now dueling
before this ocean of love whose call quite simply makes me want to drown
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29FEB24
How could I need Beth to tell me to write encouraging words to you
guess I too must be blinded by this total craziness that we are
Have you pulled me into the frenzy that is your chosen way of do
so that together we can formulate a plan that is less bizarre
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1MAR24
We have come down to the wire where all our time is still free
yet barely have we begun to search out our own depths of heart
Though we carefully laid the foundation of what love might be
the universe directs us in its romantic piece of art
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2MAR24
Could not find Emily's full M Word that I wanted to refresh today
then I wondered on my own and I took ten minutes longer than I should
Realizing at last that if I asked you would gladly show me the way
and that that is but a tiny part of it all being the way it should
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3MAR24
I want you to love the man I am yet I act immature
open and honest loses its magic if it makes you cry
Why would I self-sabotage when all else you do makes me sure
blemishing our growing past with a tear I put in your eye
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4MAR24
Suddenly I don't want to say goodbye for the summer
echoes in my mind
and I remember you singing at The Bar changing the words to November
Wondering if I have but taken the position the universe assigned
bathing in the warmth of the fire we built that I now get to remember
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5MAR24
Maybe wanting you to be better to you is the selfishness in me
maybe I want the whole visit that you originally intended
Yet there is another part that sees your progress and simply cheers for free
then that scared part of me that thinks I push too hard and you are offended
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6MAR24
Have I told you that I love to sing that same Rod Stewart song
you do fill my heart with gladness as we grow together slow
And I do not care if people think that loving you is wrong
as long as you are my peach and I your Edgar Allen Poe
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7MAR24
No game night hug and now I miss you more
and I forgot to thaw lunch in the sink
Hope time without you does not make me sore
I get so thirsty and you are my drink
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8MAR24
Posting poems from ten months into the future
making plans for together for a whole day
Cupid shot arrows deliver a suture
somehow turning our sorrows into new play
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9MAR24
It has been five days without the touch of my girl
though technology sometimes despised keeps us well
Back in the Mack and the days fly by in a whorl
then today with dinner and film and hearts that swell
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10MAR24
We intertwine behind my lines as we slowly spring ahead
watching us garner trinkets of passionate whispers we share
Dancing the heartbeats of Cupid's musicians in our own head
immersed in the familiar of foreign exchanges of care
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11MAR24
I love to wake up to texts that you have sent
and memories that together we have made
With hopes of your voice's sound or just your scent
or a moment when my love can be displayed
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12MAR24
You said to let you know and then you tried to take it away
you asked me not to make you cry because deep inside you knew
Can we sabotage the sabotage to build a brighter day
dancing together forward with much more loving shades of do
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13MAR24
I think of you rereading each poem when you get the email
but I am here writing a new one at the start of my day
When wrapping my arms around you is like getting to inhale
my heart dancing like a buffoon in a romantic ballet
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14MAR24
I was so surprised and delighted to see you early
more than just amazed at how comfortable we have become
A dainty blossoming flower wrapped up in this burly
grateful to have found these heart strings that you joyously strum
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15MAR24
The weekend approaches and I try not to drown in expectation
for now my sweet little Georgia peach is waiting for me to decide
As if there could be something else I might do in all of creation
than accept the gift of her loveliness snuggling close by my side
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16MAR24
Finished my time with Emily after stretches and the loo
just one more meditation then some reading and some writing
This daily foundation work is how I stand in all I do
for I finally found I was the one I was gaslighting
It may well have started out of fear of what I had become
those anxious days when the mountain of wrong overwhelmed my eyes
Until I saw each day slowly adds to the process's sum
and more than half of what I had been taught were tradition's lies
Now I stand as an outsider trying to get you to see
that platitudes and gratitudes are only the beginning
That we must push to move past that infatuation with free
to habit our efforts to save us when our heads are spinning
You saw it when you lost that post the immediate tirade
how the frosting of one effort can turn quickly into pain
No amount of logical excuses can cover afraid
and keeping the status quo of broken has to be insane
The rest of your life hangs in the balance of live or let die
while lover boy you attracted is trying to pull you out
So you can now rest in the lethargic of inertia's lie
or find in your sunset years what evolution is about
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17MAR24
We drive ourselves crazy with hugs and kisses saying good night
and I carry home with me the memory of your sweet touch
Some Mad Libs and comedy reels somehow seemed perfectly right
I did not expect ever again to love someone so much
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18MAR24
Seems you were destined to be a producer
and I am glad that you are going to try
Sorry that my magic ends at seducer
so part of me wants to just curl up and cry
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19MAR24
Sitting on the hugging stool just lost in the glow of your smile
listening to your voice as it speaks of the day like a song
Trying to taste forever though I know it is but a while
then almost sadly saying goodbye for what seems way too long
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20MAR24
It is the once a month reminder for Facebook to watch Poetry Palace TV
and it is always touches me whenever I hear you have watched another episode
It does seem as if another world began when you decided to go out with me
as if our hearts had decided together that this was to be our new a la mode
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21MAR24
Each time that I see your smile it is a little bit brighter
each time I wrap my arms around you you come closer to me
Each time we talk it is like our air gets a little lighter
each kiss and whisper moves us closer to where our hearts would be
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22MAR24
Good night
like a dismissal Good Morning
in a beating heart
the way of my own perception could really drive me insane
While mostly in each's moment I am thrilled to take my part
then Have a great day
and a cartoon Good night
in love's domain
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23MAR24
There is a cover of snow soft like a lamb on late March's ground
while I hope to see my girl for a while later in the day
Alone in this house where sources of heat are the only sound
and the promise of love growing stronger is the only way
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24MAR24
What are the chances that you would lose your power on this night
it was three hundred and sixty houses it was not just you
I am trying my best to try and do this lover thing right
wondering just how many hoops your id would have me jump through
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25MAR24
Such a nice date with a lovely girl I am getting to know
it just feels right to be together with our laughs and our smiles
So a curve or a bump may come along it helps us to grow
maybe the whole adventure is the mix of wishes and wiles
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26MAR24
Hope you liked seeing your poems online knowing you need not fret
and it was an awkward embrace as I tried to sing that song
Should you check the site after lunch each day so not to forget
and are we doing all we can to help make each other strong
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27MAR24
I get ready for work hoping I get to see you today
just waiting to hear the next best thing that consistency brings
Finding out the dread of being so far away from our play
though remembering the sweet sound of the lovebird as she sings
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28MAR24
Fleeting moments with gifts and talk and touch
in my arms where it feels the world is right
I hope for you each moment is as much
and I am as beautiful in your sight
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29MAR24
Easter weekend and the entire world has changed for the better
not only are there things to do but I have a lover to see
To cover with my blanket of words and to fondle each letter
finding once again that I am excited to wake up and be
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30MAR24
On Easter weekend and I am cooking you a leg of lamb
my first time with fresh spices and roasting and steaming and such
Romance is alive again as water flows over God Dam
and I have a busy day before the comfort of your touch
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31MAR24
Easter has arrived late in March as the time sashays about
while we with fireworks of hugs and kisses celebrate us
It feels so good again at last to live a life without doubt
especially with no preset bounds on what we may discuss
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1APR24
Woke up at eleven-thirty and not an alarm was set
there was still plenty of pita and there is lamb in my lunch
I am so glad to have this together and grateful we met
still don't know the meaning of life but I think I have a hunch
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2APR24
Just a little time with you is far better than none at all
to see your beautiful smile catch fire warms the chill inside
Oh your arms like a blanket of comfort into which I fall
as we wander cupid's lane so many loving hearts have plied
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3APR24
I wake up on Wednesday and start daydreaming of seeing you
the what ifs of the weather throw shadows on whether I work
As we move into April with all of the yard chores to do
a marionette ruled by heart strings that are dancing berserk
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4APR24
Another day off from cold spring weather to work on your book
it is not like I could enjoy any work out in the yard
The universe showing its perfection creating this nook
of a woman busy making the most as muse for this bard
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5APR24
Why am I so insecure?
you ask as you forget together time
sometimes I wonder if I did not text would I even cross your mind
I do know we are creatures of habit like me with my rhyme
if you would turn off grief defenses I am right here to find
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6Apr24
I do hope playing with Ella brought you back from that hurt place
you do wonders as my muse while my verse continues to fail
Today my biggest dream is but to kiss your beautiful face
as we take another step toward the spinning of our love's tale
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7APR24
We sure can fit a lot into a handful of hours when we meet
your spontaneous laughs leave such a delightful echo in my ear
Between awkward and overbearing our opposites make us complete
so in the end all of our moments are ones that we can hold quite dear
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8APR24
Monday morning as the magic leaves and the work week begins
echoes of laughter and giggles and secrets of sighs now fade
Again two people find that no matter what love always wins
that Mad Libs calzones and Jimmy Carr is sometimes how it's made
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9APR24
I hear a car in the driveway my heart begins to flutter
then your smile in the doorway and I sit on the hugging stool
Your arms wrap around me with ease making my being shutter
then it is over and you are gone so quick that it seems cruel
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10APR24
Of course I want to see you you are my gyrl
and discomfort never wants me not to share
As our long distance seems to fly by in swirl
with way too many moments without you there
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11APR24
I got to see you and to hold you and to live in that smile
not expecting you to be early I was not wholly free
Of course you made me eat my supper and that took quite a while
but it was more than delicious with you sitting there to see
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12APR24
Sliding through April with barely hints of the sun
and too much of a good thing is bringing us down
Though Saturday is coming and maybe some fun
our escape from adulting that wants us to drown
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13APR25
I cheated on Emily searing and spicing a roast for the Instant Pot
tomorrow should be out in the gardens if I want to prep for the big plant
While later today we have together time sorting out our would could and ought
as I try not to be your pauper poet yet accept the graces you grant
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14APR24
It was so sweet to have you on the new
bike and you not fall
and then once again to dine and talk and laugh and win and fail
Together with our awkward attempts to misconstrue it all
when in the end it is only from this love sick that we ail
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15APR24
I get a moment more with you and it gets taken away
got you agreed to Hudson visits and work will pick up soon
Had fun making room in the garage with you the other day
then you find a new defense as if your heart became immune
Can you not see that my efforts are aimed at becoming close
there is no willingness here invested in seeing you less
I have returned to one-eleven* and seeking overdose
so please discard all of you ideas that would have us regress
*Diary of a Poet Volume II
Go to poem #111…
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16APR24
I wake up to smiling pictures of you I did not expect
back to the Mack after many new days of visits galore
I think I left hugs and kisses there I will have to collect
and I believe that I have reached at least the stage of adore
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17APR24
I take it you got the pool cover cleared from your Facebook post
and pretend I was there for a moment or two to hear songs
While work gets too busy and you wonder my mind a ghost
as my lonely heart waits to beat next to yours where it belongs
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18APR24
Time and weather and obligations do seem to be too much
possibly the negative aspects are given too much sway
Of course other situations have placed us far from last touch
just try to remember that our solace is not far away
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19APR24
I wake up early and see you singing another love song
and I so miss our Mondays down at The Bar with Lynn and Phil
I wait all week for a tender moment and it is too long
dreaming of sonnets but only typing out words in this shrill
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20APR24
The first Saturday of the season happens on a short holiday week
forty-six hours sounds piddly but I sure can feel the weight of the days
Maybe not getting hugs on Wednesday is adding to the aura of bleak
but like the warmth of a fire we have these two hearts that are now ablaze
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21APR24
Just did the monthly update on Facebook for the TV show
shuddering inside from the thrill of spending moments with you
It is a sweet feeling to have the high hopes without any know
and I will gladly spend the free minutes of my life with you
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22APR24
I switched two numbers in my head and could not open the door
once I realized you were not home the dilemma set in
Possibly it was clairvoyance disguised as a metaphor
and this is where our together moments apart now begin
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23APR24
Now work has begun to interfere with our hugging routine
still I have all of these gardens to fill on top of all that
But I know from the past love has a way of keeping it clean
no matter what life wants to throw our way you're my pussycat
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24APR24
Wondering how I can try to squeeze a little life into this rapid of days
hoping I leave enough traces of care in your heart to help you do what you do
Sometimes it all seems as if it is a far too frigid and complicated maze
but then I remember it is not in the what but in the how that we get through
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25APR24
Little Linda Mae would have been seventy-five had she stayed
from this angle the celebrations all seem superficial
While you go through losing a long time friend and joy she portrayed
trying not to let the waves of loving turn prejudicial
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26APR24
Fifty-five hours rolling into Friday and exhaustion has settled in
five days since your arms were around me and it seems that an eon has gone by
Just came from our mistress and that deep rest she offers with which our days begin
as I dream of sitting on the hugging stool and letting your touch get me high
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27APR24
It is odd not to see last nights texts before going to bed
had hopes that there might be an email this morning waiting but
The technological battle with Georgia is in her head
though here in its periphery I feel that war in my gut
The odds of our encounter so infinitesimally small
have led to this jubilee of emotions with their toss and turn
Even with its twists of aggravation I will bear it all
for it's the girl at the heart of the matter for whom I yearn
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28APR24
Suddenly we are about to slide into May and I am unprepared
though I did have the best of date night with my girl and I am over full
On Sunday morning so grateful that there was an opening and I dared
that our two hearts shattered can be brought back to the living to feel love's pull
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29APR24
Got the phone and case and charger hope you adjust to it quick
it was good so see you briefly before my too long a ride
Sorry I was irritating on return but am love sick
grabbing hold of each second I can have you close by my side
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30APR24
It is almost May day and I will not be leaving flowers and knocking on your door
here I will leave you the words you love and the highest of blessings to have a good day
Are not these good wishes and kisses to enhance our journeys what love is really for
and as we tend to our gardens anticipating together is it not all play
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1MAY24
Waiting to see your newly colored hair and feel your loving touch
yet it is only Wednesday and the days are getting all too long
The warmth and joy of our together as wisps of wind with no clutch
though when again my arms surround you it feels nothing is wrong
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2MAY24
Laundry is drying on the porch at just a few minutes past one
while my girl is across the river at home barely gone to bed
Working and sleeping with her not feeling well and no sign of sun
but with high hopes that our hearts shall find some much better days ahead
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3MAY24
Oh spring flus are the worst without old man winter’s doom and gloom
and how did I escape this dread when we were so intertwined
It is the season of green where all around is bud and bloom
our hearts grow when together is where desire is enshrined
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4MAY24
Signs of sickness have returned the one day that we celebrate
as I go through tissues and cough wondering is it the flu
Trying not to see the situation and as some form of fate
but just another chance to demonstrate love I have for you
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5MAY24
I hope you are feeling better today because I miss you so much
will have to let go of the hope of having some of your bleeding hearts
Dreamimg that the future holds hours of hugging and kissing and such
that the progression what we are building takes us right off the charts
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6MAY24
So maybe “these allergies” were in reality “this flu”
although I do hope to survive it alone driving my Mack
Emily Jim and Jose keep me busy getting me through
and I miss our visits so much that I need to have them back
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7MAY24
I wake up on my birthday still in the grip of some spring flu
not sure if I should be working but I am mostly alone
I can barely remember the day I was last touching you
feeling ill at ease with the circumstance by which we are blown
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8MAY24
The crazy long days have landed and our moments are now few
scrambling through gardening madness to get ready to plant
I ache with my heart’s longing to spend some cuddle time with you
so grateful for opportunity that consequence did grant
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9MAY24
I hear you made it safely home from the late night Boston trip
hoping that the doctors found only signs you are doing well
Knowing that it is illusion to think that we have a grip
yet remaining open to receive the next of our hearts’ swell
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10MAY24
Seems this bug is slowly passing like an irritating driver on the road
made it through a night without any NyQuil and Friday has woken alas
We have become text messages and media blurbs from all the love we showed
it seems as if our separation has become some impassable crevasse
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11MAY24
I am so glad you had fun with girls
often I wonder should I have fun too
But the fruits of my labors are my pearls
as the moments that I can spend with you
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12MAY24
Ah it was delightful to be within your embrace again
and now I have your bleeding hearts to let loose across God Dam
In this whirlwind romance that allows together now and then
so that instead of a loveless zombie finally I am
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13MAY24
Storing the Sunday ‘Wing in your garage helps the heart to grow
an extra touch and kiss and hug is like elixir I need
As if you have let me enter a secret world just we know
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14MAY24
So how did it get to be the middle of May already
the gardens and I are hardly even close to the big plant
You and I have texts rather than hours of hot and heady
prepared together for each moment our busy lives may grant
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15MAY24
I wake to be serenaded by my special little one
it feels way late too early as the work year is pounding on
It is good to know she thinks of me out having all her fun
not wishing either of us were older just that work was done
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16MAY24
It was so good to see you and I sure hope that you had fun
just what I needed to prepare for some milling in the rain
You heading out for your evening as my day is almost done
a moment in your embrace relieves a landslide of life’s strain
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17MAY24
At barely past one o’clock I greet the day with my routine
sending love out to the universe seems the way I should start
Then it’s avocados blueberries and walnuts and caffeine
and then a verse or two to keep that love growing in my heart
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18MAY24
I hope today is far less hectic and carries no messages of loss
just got back from loving the universe and letting it love me back
The friendships we make along our way become our treasures and our cross
yet what we find when we look is that the gains outweigh all of the loss
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19MAY24
No word from brother and echoes in my heart of time with you
checking the weather to see which day might be best to buy plants
Is it best to pack a three day weekend with so much to do
hoping as days fly by with come and go beauty fills a glance
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20MAY24
Just got my “Bravo!” from Emily and another day has begun
the Monday before the big gardening weekend it’s ready or not
Sixty more bulbs including two bleeding hearts but to make it more fun
yet the frantic now is in utter volume and no longer distraught
Something inside tells me this is your impact while I watch you crusade
not as if you have a stake for burning but your passion is quite real
But if you have a large gathering I may not drink the lemonade
though gladly partaking in a little more of your aura of zeal
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21MAY24
Inspecting the Sunday ‘Wing threw me off of the daily plan
not seeing you as I came and went was was a hard thing to do
So that in my off-kilter I became a forgetful man
and I beg your forgiveness for not saying good night to you
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22MAY24
I wake up to your beautiful smile with a picture you sent
I cannot think of a better way that I could start my day
I breathe in deeply remembering your embrace and your scent
and for a moment life is in such a state our hearts can play
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23MAY24
The first heat wave hits to remind us of the summer coming
if allergies simmer down we can start to enjoy our yards
While time apart is filled with the music of heart-strings strumming
and again I have become the most fortunate of Earth’s bards
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24MAY24
Not sure what you do on Thursdays now but hope that you had fun
the new fridge is in and I had delicious slices of roast
I’m adjusting to this hectic season with you as my one
hoping to plant like crazy then just water gardens and coast
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Seven months left on the old Christmas countdown to season’s end
now twenty-four hours from starting this year’s gardening rush
The plants on the patio tubers and bulbs ready for the blend
continuing the celebrations for the Queen’s garden’s plush
Although this year feels more like out with the old in with the new
not so much a discarding as a changing of color guards
While the inertia of life keeps moving the now into you
preparing the pearls while encasing with love all of the shards
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26MAY24
The great planting weekend is upon us and I think I am insane
there’s far too many plants and bulbs and tubers to get into the ground
But it is not as if I could even decide that I would just abstain
though these bulbs could be the last gems so that now the gardens will be crowned
I love that your bleeding hearts are already growing across the dam
and some of my special recipe soil made it into your place
So grateful too that who you are can now trickle into who I am
just waiting for the day when again I can kiss your beautiful face
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27MAY24
JUST finished with Emily at seven-fifteen and I was up at twenty after five
day two of the fool-hearted and foolish plantimg frenzie with all the dahlias and new plants
Hoping I get to see you because your touch and sweet voice make me feel so much more alive
in total awe at the bountiful list of wonders this crazy life on this planet grants
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28MAY24
It was so good to hold and kiss you again
although the gardens seemed bland when you were here
If I could plan they would be dazzling then
yet just you looking at them makes them more dear
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29MAY24
I feel so helpless hearing about the day you had and I know some pain of gout
wishing was cast out long ago but it takes all I have not to wish that I was there
So if helping each other are what relationships are basically all about
what is there now I can do to show you even a little of how much I care
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30MAY24
You tell me about your delusional insufficiencies
as I leak perverted secrets from my proverbial ass
Ignoring all of your tender and caring proficiencies
hugging and touching and kissing as if some fantasy lass
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31MAY24
Then our May was at it’s end and suddenly June was calling
with still a single hot spell letting us know the heat to come
As our hearts grew fond of their embrace and deprh of enthralling
adding gasps of wonder and amazed at the speed of their sum
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1JUN24
It is nice to hear of the adventures you take your granddaughter on
while I work myself to death in a dump truck like my inner child dreamt
Some daily trysts and tasks and suddenly we find that our spring is gone
yet there are wonders of heart that just wait for each new lovers’ attempt
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2JUN24
I am such a thoughtless man I did not come to your rescue
instead I fretted like some morher hen foxes all around
Turning your tragedy into mine in narcissistic rue
then casting stones that cried negligence because you could not be found
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3JUN24
It is not often that I cannot sleep but last night it hit
was a ghost wandering around with the smell of wind dried sheets
Was it that first ride on the Goldwing and how well it all fit
that beauteous place where our blooming love and adventure meets
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4JUN24
Thirteen hours on a Monday so no Georgia to give me hugs and kisses
second “short” week in a row and this time I am the one with weekend plans
Sometimes it seems that we have grown so close you really should be my Mrs.
when I am holding you I have the entire universe in my hands
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5JUN24
Another night of wide awake roaming the rooms
then hitting the snooze when I know it is time to rise
Then with meditations and poems the day resumes
where messages from you are there before my eyes
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6JUN24
Started with six May then realized my delusional faux pas
I wonder if working all these hours is as bad as you say
Never really thought of it more than the ritual of my bourgeois
until now when it put a limit on all of our time and play
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7JUN24
Four oh seven in the morning and the mistress went away
another Saturday when our time together will not be
And it is not as if we even have a lifetime to play
but we have love in each of our moments that sets our hearts free
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8JUN24
Up on the lake a couple hours away
catching up with these guys I have know for years
I get to miss seeing you another day
but the joys you have given belay the tears
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9JUN24
I’m so glad you let me share this powerful weekend with you
listening to the fire crackle to the singing of birds
Washed in the love of principles and ready tonstart anew
in The Great Hall with flags flying immersed in the love of words
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10JUN24
After a glorious weekend up on the lake I settle back into norm
wondering if I should have asked to be trained in opening of the pool
Memories of our together from some distant dream come to me now in swarm
and I am afraid hindsight of efforts not spent in join will paint me the fool
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11JUN24
Thought I was waiting for a call and a kiss
but it got “late” and I had to get to bed
Now hearing your laughter just brings me such bliss
the butterfly lands upon me in my head
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12JUN24
I never made it to graduation I hope that she had fun
and you must have been one proud grandmother watching the accolades
Now is it back to the pool and gardens for summer in the sun
together as time carries us along through its wondrous cascades
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13JUN24
It was so good to see you and to feel your arms around me
hope you enjoyed the singing and all the people at The Bar
Our hugging stools are so fulfilling they sort of set me free
off into our world of loving without going very far
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14JUN24
Another fourteen hours alone in the Mack and night falls
make a large salad and sit at the computer for a meal
I wonder if at karaoke you can hear my heart calls
while realizing that you and me are making what is real
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15JUN24
Now we got official and the world knows we are together
though it feels the same inside and I would just like to love you more
We might play to our passions but concern seems to be our tether
and it does not matter what we do for when we join our hearts soar
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16JUN24
I hope karaoke went well with old friends and you had fun
hope you made up with Emily and are seeing her again
At last I got to digging and planting and got a lot done
need to come up with watering time I just do not know when
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17JUN24
It was good to have Jenn and Josh over for lunch
and she brought me more garden gnomes for Fathers’ Day
Guess falling down is okay if there is no crunch
please reincorporate the helps you have today
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18JUN24
Sometimes it seems as if I am only living in a dream
the way that the days in the Mack keep me busy as a bee
Sometimes it feels so empty with others splitting at the seam
then there are moments with you when both of our hearts are set free
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19JUN24
A heat wave is dragging me down but I am carrying on
hoping that you are staying cool so far away over there
As we both know in a wink blink and nod summer will be gone
just hoping there will be a few moments you and I can share
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20JUN24
Only a few minutes in the driveway but it was with you
and a song that you sang too softly through the crowd noise to hear
Then back to the little that during the work season I do
but blessed with the presence of my girl to make these moments dear
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21JUN24
I felt a drop or two of rain just before I went to bed
the wind was blowing and the clouds were thick but I did not know
Imaginings of you in the cool pool swimming filled my head
while the sound of rain upon the roof had comforts to bestow
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22JUN24
I thought of Billy Joel as I rode home in the pouring rain
knowing the gardens were taken care of was quite the relief
Maybe my lunatic is the attraction to your insane
having always been a poet it does sound like my motif
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23JUN24
Thank you for choosing Smoky Bones I could not have done better
and maybe we were just drawn to where we would be most fulfilled
Possibly we stumbled upon destiny to the letter
where the efforts of separate makings with love are distilled
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24JUN24
Not quite as hot today then right back into the summer fare
leaving our mistress Emily off to my morning routine
A back yard well to fix and a new conditioner of air
so many things to do and fit hugs and kisses in between
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25JUN24
Thought maybe I would get to hold you but there was no such luck
had my salad no computer and some skyr and ‘kraut to boot
There are plenty of date night memories to take to my truck
so summer time is when desire is turned into acute
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26JUN24
Oh I will try my very best to never run out of rhyme
and I do hold you as close as I can each time that we touch
I’m not sure what I have but I will aim for the end of time
and I will try my very best to love you back just as much
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27JUN24
Somehow half the year has passed us by while we dabble in love’s ways
and there were sounds of rain last night so maybe the gardens survived
Do you think pushing Georgia too hard might put her into a daze
and might contentment from sensible efforts somehow be derived
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28JUN24
The ego may feel it is losing control as you go to Emily for the win
it has nothing of substance so it brings night terrors hoping to cripple you with fear
It is all smoke and mirrors like fog on a stage and the worst it can seem is begin
once you gain your stride on the path of redeem all of its trickery becomes quite clear
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29JUN24
Maybe this is the day that you allow self-love to enter into your life
do you know how many people have halfway tried and then failed to follow through
You are your only surgeon and you must learn how to be careful with the knife
this is not just what you feed your heart but what words of the past you let lead you
If today is not the first day that you begin to follow your higher voice
then again you have reached the cusp of your own salvation to throw it away
For twenty-one days of moment by moment you must reaffirm you own choice
till finally you hear the lower side’s call and laugh at the price you would pay
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30JUN24
I need to harvest berries to begin this last day of June
remembering your candy store delight shopping for new food
Them mixed amongst the Leprechauns and fairies my time to croon
melodies with heart string words that hint of the love you exude
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1JUL24
The second half of twenty-twenty-four begins as we evolve
we better ourselves and the rate at which we can love and much more
The tedious may be the most important pieces we can solve
these practices are the only way we can find our future’s store
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2JUL24
The last summer holiday is creeping closer and we have made plans
a little more than nine months into our romantic rendezvous
We both are emerging from the bunkers we built that love understands
skipping along joyfully like children at play in days brand new
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3JUL24
A beautiful woman serenades me from San Francisco kitchen while I sleep
and I awake to remember the raspberries that I did not pick yesterday
There are also gardens that need water if I would have dahlias this fall to reap
but I do my routine to get to the Mack while the seconds tick fearless away
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4JUL24
You are a fearless lady and now I am a reasonable man?
but this seems a bit suspect as common folk lored sense has evaded
Now living our best lives gets crazy without even having a plan
but I am delighted to have spent long enough to have persuaded
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5JUL24
I do have such fun with you whether or not plans work or fail
holding hands in the truck or while we watch our favorite show
Never quite sure what will happen when we let our dreams set sail
but knowing that when we part again our hearts will be aglow
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6JUL24
The Tundra calls me this morning to take me up to the mall
then to my mother’s favorite Chinese up in Rockland Maine
Knowing that you will be waiting when we are done with it all
again bundling up the crazy and making it seem sane
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7JUL24
Just like that a week of July has passed us by
and some rain has helped water the gardens for free
May not be the best guy in the world but I try
and it feels so good that you feel so good with me
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8JUL24
My Sunday habit of swapping cars with an added dip in your pool
and yet somehow nineties was not as bad as ninety sometimes can be
All of your hugs and kisses leave me dazed as if some kid still in school
as you teach me to celebrate together with moments of carefree
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9JUL24
Watering the flowers that the rabbits and geese have left behind
still hoping that some of the dahlias will survive until fall
Trying to find you a swimmer so maybe you can unwind
praying that something or someone can start to dilute your pall
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10JUL24
Hope you had fun out singing and being with friends
trying not to wish time away so I can too
Although I sure could use a karaoke cleanse
as well as time out in the world playing with you
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11JUL24
Had some sea bass and did not water at all
right down the street from Bonnie Andy and you
While the boy in me wants to play with his doll
but it is back to work with too much to do
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12JUL24
The new AC is supposed to come in today we will see
then I will call the handyman that the Queen helped me to get
And I could almost wish to have the view that you have of me
for I am working on the better man but am not there yet
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13JUL24
A busy day will Ella and you forget that we made plans
calzone salad and The 100 together while all alone
Letting our love guide us along in our hearts and heads and hands
resting in the comfort of the garden that our deeds have sown
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14JUL24
Just finished with our mistress Emily where death does not disturb date night
echoes of sweet hugs and kisses tingle across the skin I thought was dead
Knowing that nothing in circumstance can touch our bond that holds us so tight
closing my eyes to hear your whispers of love that now chorus in my head
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15JUL24
I take it you took the initiative on getting Beth to meet your man
so is it a big step along the way or does it just mean too much change
You know it will get me all excited but I will do the best I can
at least Cards Against Humanity should give me footing in the exchange
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16JUL24
Another Monday when work was long and I was not allowed your touch
but got the review of the renovations down the street at The Bar
It’s back to the Mack for another hot day and missing you so much
this is the season to busy my heart with loving you from afar
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17JUL24
Never even thought of the power eating salad in the thunder storm
just the time I spent watering and annuals that have survived this heat
Bearing witness to this relationship as it begins to take its form
living in awe of the way you love me and our growing memories sweet
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18JUL24
Oh you looked so beautiful with your hair all done up and that blouse and skirt
it was so good to see you and feel you and to have that laugh fill my ears
And me fresh out of the shower waiting on the hug stool without a shirt
making up in together moments for two hearts living in arrears
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19JUL24
Please do not let another’s words convince you to put yourself down
for then the lesson is lost to sorrow you bring keeping you chained
Mistakes take away none of the majesty they just tilt your crown
decide today what you would have be so that is what is attained
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20JUL24
It is hard to believe that technology cannot stop COVID dead
sure hope you are feeling well so we can have hugs and snuggles tonight
Of course thoughts of calzones and The 100 are swirling around my head
and it has become clear that Saturdays without you are no longer right
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21JUL24
It is hard to push you to your limits without wondering if you might break
but in the moment your expressions of love crazy keeps me striving for more
Diving deeper into the intimate where there is laughter and awe to take
letting go in the celebration of together that shakes my very core
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22JUL24
It was good to see you twice and be on the ‘Wing for a bit
to see the family and see the change as our time moves on
It was good to see the hugging stool and enjoy a short sit
to have a plan for better living to rest our hopes upon
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23JULY24
Hope you had a blast out singing with your friends
just down the street from me and this hugging stool
Sometimes all the heart needs is a social cleanse
to wash us with peace and feed us friendship’s fuel
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24JUL24
I am not sure why you push yourself so hard and I try not to be afraid
could it be the same ambition that gets me up in the middle of the night
This matrix seems to stand before us and there are eight billion ways it is played
and maybe the self-sabotage you do not see is thinking I know your right
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25JUL24
I go to sleep and you go to sing then go home to do chores
then just when you are winding down I get up to start my day
The hugging stools are empty too often but no keeping scores
while two hearts that have kindled fires wait for their time to play
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26JUL24
As you lie down to get your sleep I wake to Emily and pens
and sending love to all there is seems a great way to start the day
Six hours into overtime and I still do not have a Benz
but I have the best girl a poet could have and that is okay
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27JUL24
Do the girls keep you from doing too much work and find you play?
another generation grows up around you as you age
We live and learn and find with love the best ways to fill a day
and you have helped me to find it is okay to turn the page
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28JUL24
So I failed to get my freak on and I think that is okay
so sorry you did not enjoy your friends as much as you hoped
Of course the expectations we carry can ruin a day
that closed-minded mountain we have been told is slippery sloped
The communication wires may be barbed along our way
not that there are any more traps in this road never taken
But all of our choices have their own consequences to pay
my heart is not broken because at times it may be shaken
In fact you have opened horizons I thought forever closed
that fact alone only makes me find I love you even more
Knowing your have left you heart for me so opened and exposed
has me filled with anticipation for what life has in store
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29JUL24
We are the lucky ones who found a way to build love as we evolve
stealing these moments few in the busy lives that we have created
Hoping that in our joint celebration any ires we find dissolve
wrapped in the warmth of our hugs and kisses dancing along elated
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30JUL24
It is such a wonderful feeling to wait on the hugging stool for you
to have you walk into my arms and to feel you melt my troubles away
It must be the best part of crazy to see what so few minutes can do
then trying to carry that with me until I see you another day
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31JUL24
I love that you are out singing and wondering how I am in my Mack
well they took it off the road and have high hopes of it being done today
Five hundred thousand miles into service and I can’t wait to have it back
like the anticipation of you as a teacher and what you might say
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1AUG24
Two nights on the hugging stool was a great way to say goodbye to July
but then I start a poem in August without going to see Emily
I have not yet learned how to live this new life here on Earth but I do try
and I am so grateful to have your example of living happily
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2AUG24
Episode twenty-one hit the air waves today with a powerful poem
the beach when it is ninety-three is not something I could gladly endure
Somehow I decided to leave my mark on the Earth a poetry tome
my farewell to her charms and hello to your crazy is making it pure
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3AUG24
I cut up a roast and I sandwich bagged each piece for your meals
showed you with pictures how easy it is with an Instant Pot
Oh to eat a piece of fresh juicy roast to see how it feels
part of the sharing we do together with all we have got
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4AUG24
Ready again to throw in the cards but we have just begun
us ancient creatures in a world moved on trying to maintain
After losing it all so many times finally I won
then that big black hole where we began to intertwine insane
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5AUG24
Unfortunately my worst roast was the one that got to you
now it is home again frozen with the berries that I picked
Guess being your cook is not something I am supposed to do
just one more time when desire and ability conflict
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6AUG24
Sometimes the age thing does get just a little bit in the way
or are you willing to do a little bit more for your friends
I know I am prime target for self-sabotage anyway
these days I remember the hugging stool and the way it mends
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7AUG24
I am sixty-two and a quarter today
and really thought I would have more figured out
But it seems I am mastering work and play
and maybe the love that living is about
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8AUG24
I’m so glad you stopped by to see me after work yesterday
it made my whole week better to feel you breathing in my arms
It is odd to love a woman that I do not see each day
waiting to submerse into the lovely of your whims and charms
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9AUG24
It is so sweet to wake up to your morning greetings
fresh out of bed and after prayers looking for the phone
We are only one of the universe’s meetings
can you imagine all of the courtships it has known
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10AUG24
Date night is closing in as I get ready to do the Mack
we have future plans for when The 100 has come to an end
Dr. Tom has prescribed his feels but we know he is a quack
yet with all that is going on it is the best time I spend
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11AUG24
Has exhaustion taken over this man’s seasonal torture
look at you up till three A. M. and then off to another day
It says it will only be eighty-one and not a scorcher
but I will try to be poolside to watch you and your friends play
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12AUG24
It was such pleasure to sit by the pool with you and your friends
so much that I forgot about coming home to go to bed
I forget in my isolation how much fellowship mends
and how much I must let all this craziness out of my head
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13AUG24
I swept and mopped the front room moving the hugging stool around
made the two week salad and vinaigrette and sat down to eat
Got the news that the day with your presence was not to be crowned
yet found that alone with your memories is also complete
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14AUG24
Another string of days is slipping past with so much to do
while I work and sleep and hope to catch a small fragrance of you
Late night Saturday trying to hug and kiss the evening through
still simply amazed that after the fray the whole world is new
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15AUG24
Maybe it is my own addiction that lets me see your struggle with yours
maybe it is envy because my career does not allow for much fun
Hopefully the gift of foresight allows us to open many new doors
the miracle of here and now fills us with the vigor of just begun
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16AUG24
Playing games on the computer as I eat salad right where she did
stealing moments of affinity with the love of my life now gone
Trying to see that we are completely spirits no ego or id
that the love of my life is not someone I once laid that love upon
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17AUG24
All of a sudden my muse has put up boundaries I may not be able to bear
deciding without my permission that what I have written is not even hers
Thumbs up in the morning with digital keypad second guessing all that is there
a poet who has lost his license watching the great kingdom of Earth as it blurs
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18AUG24
It is not only Little Linda Mae’s family around whom I must tread lightly
because the gash of grief gapes open for as long as it takes for someone to bleed out
So that my brazen unabashed survivor holds not to its single view so tightly
thus allowing the moments of healing the freedom and time to work their way throughout
To become fluid like water to purify this existence I need our love’s bond
and would that you understand the patience it takes for the broken to walk this wire
I dream of accompanying the wounded until they find their healing and beyond
of gifting a cool breeze of comfort though my entire being is now on fire
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19AUG24
There is just a hint of sad when I get the ‘Wing and you are not there
then to ride it thinking of Billy Joel heading off into the rain
This great adventure now of loving you which has nothing to compare
finding that there are havens here on Earth that let us bear the insane
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20AUG24
It was so nice to see you all dolled up to go out singing
nicer still to feel your arms around me and to feel your kiss
It is like I live in some Rockwell village bells just ringing
how amazing to feel such joy and be as happy as this
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21AUG24
I wake and stretch and visit our mistress with no word from you
wondering if there was Tuesday night karaoke to sing
Funny how in years gone by that would hinder all that I do
this morning it is only part of a man doing his thing
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22AUG24
In the middle of the weekly gap where there is no seeing you
grateful for all the pictures I can find here scrolling through my phone
Thinking about all the things a single man is supposed to do
wondering if I will ever master this living all alone
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23AUG24
Up shortly after the stroke of midnight to prepare for another long day
messages from you thinking you have worn out your welcome and other odd things
I am trying to maintain with fifty hours and my girl so far away
but how could I possibly tire of the woman who gave my heart new wings
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24AUG24
Only four months until Christmas and episode twenty-eight is on air
four days late to post on social media that verse is close to the Queen
Now I get to see just how awkward I was way back then when I was there
giving my gifts away like Kirpal thought was the way to keep it all clean
Now writing a poem I know is not about you but you led me to here
or maybe I stalked you for your many life’s secrets so I could survive
Decisions are crazy in this insane world where no end is ever clear
but you have a way of feeling me comfort in joy of being alive
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25AUG24
I meet your oldest daughter and we all got to laugh and play
not sure that makes what we have any more real but so it seems
And I did not feel like a lamb be led to the slaughter
so all of that dread was only the fabric of my ill dreams
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26AUG25
The luck of the draw means something different to each of us
but you draw the craziest pictures that I have ever seen
I am sure you could walk through the woods and get hit by a bus
just my cocktail of giddy love pure bad luck and Dopamine
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27AUG24
When I had accepted that you would not visit you pulled into the drive
with the door open and waiting on the stool to be wrapped in your embrace
Celebrating moments when it feels so good to breathe and to be alive
wondering how a fool such as I could inspire such joy in your face
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28AUG24
Four days left in August as we ricochet into the fall
got a light bulb here for the work ‘Wing and three days off to fix
These words are soothing to my soul but I sure could use a call
am so glad that the universe had you in its bag of tricks
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29AUG25
It is amazing how different we all can perceive the world we live in
like for instance you and I have totally opposite views of you and I
How we look at the lives we have made and think it is all what we were given
maybe it is not all candy and castles but together we sure can try
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30AUG24
August is coming to a close and do we have winter plans
not that I would rush time on but seasons slid by in the past
Millennia of time travel is there one who understands
or must the loves into which we fall but be taken aghast
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31AUG24
The long trip to Maine and back begins in just a few hours
brother and sister-in-law and me in a Tundra flying
Then upon our return I call to set up what is ours
content with all the seeds that the universe is supplying
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1SEPT24
I hope these date night naps do not hurt your feelings
it was a long although fulfilling trip to Maine
You are the keeper of my heart and its reelings
proof that the gory trip through grief was not in vain
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2SEPT24
Possibly the coolest week of the entire summer lulls us into pumpkin spice
as Phil takes on a third karaoke show within a mile of where I am sitting
Having you here for a “late night” visit helped to make the whole holiday warm and nice
as if fairy dust of luck fell into our swamp of circumstance ever so fitting
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3SEPT24
I went from feeling so excited to the utter failure of defeat
having had no idea that I was in a one wrong move situation
Yet I may feel your sense of overwhelm though I do not want to compete
tell me how do I rise to the occasion drowning in this frustration
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4SEPT24
I too have battled with “supposed to be” and others’ should be
those traps we set to hold ourselves back from the dreams we could find
Seems awful late to realize that build a life is our free
while we shake from our authentic selves our inhibitions’ blind
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5SEPT24
Your eighty reasons not to see me attack my desire
maybe the Underdog had far too much of an affect on me
Yet I know that someday soon I’ll be warmed within your fire
that if you only loved you enough this sadness would not be
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6SEPT24
What a wonderful surprise to find you unannounced at my door
to hug and kiss you and then listen to you talk about your day
I was torn away from my somber as like Edgar’s nevermore
and for a moment we were lovers with the universe to play
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7SEPT24
I try to do as you have requested but does it make me less?
feeling your love as you embrace me beyond our griefs’ deep repose
Some of your ways are beyond my comprehension I must confess
so I move forward in the faith of what our loving will expose
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8SEPT24
Just finished with Emily and it is already twenty after six
my “day off” is slipping by and I still have to shop and ride the “new” bike
I may see the splinter and the beam with all of the things that I must fix
maybe we are really crazy with all of our fingers saving the dike
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9APR24
Again you have injured your leg while going about your chores
so much so I could place pictures you sent with terrible pain
Sometimes I think writing your memoirs might be The Georgia Wars
yet I’m blessed with the honor of loving Dame Bloody Insane
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10SEPT24
Got to see you singing just before my first meditation
and you are such a cutie pie dancing with the microphone
Your many facets dazzling me into fascination
so thankful for all of the many sides of you you have shown
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11SEPT24
I am sorry you had to see your friend have a breakdown and be taken away
for there was merely a series of Manic Mondays when my friend from England “fell”
Pretending we can cure the world surely shows us the price that some people must pay
though sometimes I like to think I am helping you are the only one who can tell
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12SEPT24
It was such a pleasure to hold you for a moment and to kiss
so “The World Is New” with its quarter century echo still sings
Of all of the things we may do it is your embrace that I miss
somehow togetherness has a way of giving a heart its wings
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13SEPT24
It is Friday the thirteenth and I am but one lucky man
even with all of the grief I have felt love has found a way
To tickle my fancy while showing me the breadth of its span
showing me again that this world is made for lovers at play
Even though I drown in my hours at work with thoughts of you
trying not to worry about injury today may bring
While the crazy that we dream lurks about exacting its due
and pauper with his poems has found a way to play the king
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14SEPT24
Slept late on Saturday morning with a million things to do
the lawn has not been mowed since July and cocks’ comb to replant
Construction cleaning from weeks ago and making it to you
would so love to skip it all but your example means I can’t
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15SEPT24
I guess there are processes in place to protect is from ourselves
same as there are endless options of salving our fears with trust
And action must be taken because wishing never sends its elves
while your moral support is the magic to fair treatment or bust
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16SEPT24
I bought a lawn mower not knowing it was an electric one
the choices were overwhelming and the prices were way too high
I have no AC due to corporate scamming and I am quite done
while you think I handle it well and I am really not sure why
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17SEPT24
You comfort me as I struggle with some corporate fraud the best I can
then you are gone and I’m off to sleep without the ease of an AC
And yet I wake again for another day as a fortunate man
while still not quite sure how this crazy love of ours ever came to be
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18SEPT24
So Midea sent an email requesting my full address
of course I gave it right to them and said might I ask you why
Only Hudson Hardware knew of my plans to file I confess
now again I am shown how little I can see with this eye
Please take heed of my shortcomings not thinking I know what’s best
too am I a traveler here but stumbling on my way
Fortuitously finding the purest of hearts to invest
depthlessly grateful that you chose to love me upon this day
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19SEPT24
You came in with that flowing dress and your most beautiful smile
melting into your embrace has become what I like the best
Moments stolen where the becks and calls of others rest a while
as we celebrate this wonder of having been truly blessed
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20SEPT24
Today is the “update day” when I post about Poetry Palace TV
“once a month” was Jenn’s advice and she tends to be much more clear-headed than I
The next episode to air displays my broken heart for the whole world to see
you being the producer seems so appropriate but I do not know why
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21SEPT24
The last day of summer and I have a flag I need to change
maybe transplant a few of the cockscombs growing out in front
And not having a date night later will seem awfully strange
that and a funeral tomorrow my heart will take the brunt
Do you have any idea how hard that last rhyme was for me
trying to keep separate my trucker self and poet man
Do I have schizophrenia or do I think crazily
or just spent a lifetime preparing to fit into your plan
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22SEPT24
Today is the official flag changing day as autumn begins
while two months from now it’s karaoke season and time with you
Somehow the boy who always loses grew into the man who wins
and there is a television show now calling for season two
The day I walked into The Bar with three widows at a table
put an end to the days when I thought I had to suffer alone
As you helped me to understand I was writing my own fable
while the unbearable grief has turned into this romance we’ve grown
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23SEPT24
Listening to Funeral For A Friend remembering the trip
seeing how I have spoiled you with my words but I am so late
It has been obnoxiously too long since we just let it rip
and I am lonely here thinking of the warmth of our next date
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24SEPT24
Three months until Christmas Eve and I am still trying to get AC
you were part of the cat blouse crew when you visited me at the stool
Each time I hold you in my embrace there is more beauty that I see
you say I’m wrong and if you are right I am glad I am love’s blind fool
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25SEPT24
Hope you enjoyed San Francisco Kitchen and karaoke last night
going to bed when it is light out no longer even bothers me
Maybe I am just taken up with fonder as you are out of sight
waiting for Saturday evening when once again my dark heart will see
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26SEPT24
We do have technological difficulties but it helps for sure
as here I am sending your poem to you every morning
And I am treasuring your daily texts always more and more
or that selfie your volume of poetry is adorning
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27SEPT24
Please do not take a drunken witness as reason to attack
there was joking about me moving in so to hand you notes
Maybe a “nap” was mentioned and that could have thrown her off track
but please do not sour my morning with anger and misquotes
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28SEPT24
Got in late and feasted on salad and soup
noticed some flowers and lights out in the yard
So glad to have date night in my crazy loop
that my once grieving heart is no longer barred
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29SEPT24
The possible last closing of the inground pool you have played in for years
one of the many complications that decorate and enhance our lives
As the snowball of time seems to roll out of control our vision then clears
after trying to put our hearts’ toes in the water to find that it dives
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30SEPT24
I wonder if your grays are gone at two-thirty
as Emily echoes of one one fill my ear
Meanwhile my healing routine gets down-and-dirty
as memories of The Hundred begin to clear
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1OCT24
Just past midnight we have landed in October once again
did you sing Poison Ivy for the yard work you’ve been doing
Coming out of The M Word pictures take me to way back when
you say good morning before your good night a new day brewing
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2OCT24
Went to bed early as if to make up for sleep that I lost
and woke up a minute before the alarms started to sound
Trying to find my fulfillment without increasing the cost
and more ways to enjoy this commitment together we found
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3OCT24
What a beautiful sight to see as you walked across the floor
and I think that sparkle in your eyes was intended for me
Seems each glance or hug you give me only has me wanting more
as if the pool of love we entered turned out to be the sea
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4OCT24
It is amazing that I can wake up and listen to you sing last night
as is your journey from alone and sad to the center of attention
Feeling the warmth of your gift of living with even the slightest of sight
almost as if the bond that we share has come from another dimension
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5OCT24
Another Saturday morning and I am preparing to go to the Mack
not really knowing if I would rather eat in or take you somewhere to eat
Probably a moment out on the town is what I need to get back on track
a little rest and relaxation might be just what would make your week complete
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6OCT24
Another great date night that I cut short with my heavy eyes
as the last day of a sixty-three plus hour week slid by
I am sorry for the deadhead but it was no great surprise
Margarita’s at the small booth was quite the delicious high
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7OCT24
It is crazy how we can have friends from all over this place
we can go our separate ways then come together again
Our experiences can turn us into leather and lace
and it all boils down to love and not where or when we have been
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8OCT24
So good to be serenaded in the morning when I wake
while I live in this little world of dump trucks and working men
So grateful for your sweet loving that deep down inside I quake
trying not to rush through another week to date night again
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9OCT24
I can only watch as you push way beyond what you should do
and wonder if my too little is the balance that you need
Gave myself eight hours to sleep and pushed the snooze button too
as I am about ready to live at a different speed
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10OCT24
As always it was so good to hold you in my arms to kiss
the candles and the lamp are burning to fight October’s chill
I forgot to text good night bathing in that echo of bliss
and I find sitting here next to our stool I am bathing still
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11OCT24
Eleven eleven an important number what does it mean
getting used to the candles and lamp and the shadows on the wall
What have we garnered from all the people and places we have seen
what sort of magic have you upon my heart to so enthrall
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12OCT24
So confused by the day off’s lack of structure I forgot to write a poem
did send pictures of Emily’s apparent distaste for my disrespect
Sometimes it is just as if my routine is some sort of protective dome
better late than never may apply but the results are less direct
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13OCT24
Happy birthday little one hope you have something special planned
would you like to watch a couple episodes of our new show
I’m way off kilter from staying up past what my days demand
but it was so worth the consequence just to see your eyes glow
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14OCT24
Almost through another show that we both enjoy
on a holiday weekend I visited twice
So content to watch TV as your lover boy
with pizza and hugs and kisses and all that’s nice
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15OCT24
So love to see your singing from the night before
read about The Bar’s relief trailer loads of stuff
I took a couple shopping but I could do more
I may not be too active but I am enough
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16OCT24
Here we are but oysters in these waves of irritating sand
grumpy until each pearl is completed then we start again
So I try to focus on all the glories of the unplanned
hoping to be better prepared for things that might happen then
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17OCT24
I am sorry I got that backwards forgive me if you can
was I self-sabotaging and do I need a teacher too
Sometimes I get rolling and end up being a foolish man
regretting it so much if it causes any pain for you
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18OCT24
You have no idea how sorry I am to be human and make mistakes
when I first saw Star Trek as a child I wanted to be Vulcan so bad
Even now some of the good ones blurring my vision giving me the shakes
yes emotions I still cannot handle yet often they make me so glad
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19OCT24
Thank you for letting me fail even though I live in regret
have been trying for years now to achieve that one moment’s pause
Thought off the top of my head the most here and now I could get
but it allows ego’s sabotage not love to be the cause
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20OCT24
We play with different settings but I am happy to feel your touch
frequently I choose the oddest of entertainment but we do laugh
All the cars that I do not need to buy you sometimes like just as much
and the moments we share are gold even when duties cut them in half
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21OCT24
Hindsight shows me my lack of preparation is not a curse
there were moments along the way I could have checked for a flaw
I now see lessons I have shared that were not led to rehearse
so pondering our relationship with reverence and awe
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22OCT24
So glad that you were able to stop by for hugs and kisses
my heart had fallen when you had decided that you could not
So far from when you had a Mr. and I had a Mrs.
somehow growing a new garden amidst the drought of our naught
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23OCT24
Wake up late from snoozing to stretches and Emily’s voice so soft
this week the hours are picking back up and I can feel the strain
But here in my heart I am gently carried by your love aloft
and it is as if with your crazy you have led me back to sane
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24OCT24
Not sure why the beach does not agree with you but it is sad
you waited all summer to sit by the ocean in the sun
Yet I know the sorrow and let down when it should have been glad
oh the great plans we have laid to end up with tales we have spun
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25OCT24
Sixty-five in the house this morning and the oil lamp burns
the gout flareup subsides and I think I will fly on the ‘Wing
What once was shattered “beyond repair” now beats again and yearns
as the seasons change and we get closer to the time we sing
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26OCT24
I should not have taken work with all there is I need to do
and maybe a list would help motivate me to get it done
Though the season is winding down and I see more time with you
sometimes it feels like my whole life is living under the gun
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27OCT24
Trying to rush through the routine for brunch and I did not even write
what a thoughtless boy wonder it appears I am turning out to be
Keeping up with the crazy you have arranged is quite an awkward flight
but it is a life I am far more than grateful I do get to see
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28OCT24
There is a full head mask in the other room for Halloween
it seems that I have had it for a decade or a bit more
The first wear was an event with so much happening between
that I move forward with you wondering what might be in store
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29OCT24
Sitting here thinking it is too late to see you and you park you car
trying not to hold my breath as you walk down the walkway to my door
Then again I have my arms wrapped around you but you are still too far
when you have gone I must fight the urge to wish that we had so much more
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30OCT24
Thought it was time to get up and I realized I did not say good night
the flood of emotions begins as the season boils down to its slow end
Another winter full of too much to do though the love birds have taken flight
and I find that I have far more messages than there are bottles to send
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31OCT24
You were the most adorable witch when I saw you on the lawn
then this morning I get to hear the karaoke songs you sang
It has to be that total sense of play to which I am now drawn
for it called to both of us way down in the depths from which we sprang
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1NOV24
The first day of November brings thoughts of holidays and more
days slipping by too fast to taste with the promise of new life
I think I am ready for a festive scene though not quite sure
while time slices through me brazen and bold as some killer’s knife
Over the river and past some wood little one waits for me
with our favorite foods and boob tube time we interlace hearts
Riding our surprise romance and wondering what we will see
steadier now on grief shattered streets happy to play our parts
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2NOV24
You take down Halloween decorations I did not get pumpkin number one
guess I celebrate life in a Mack truck and karaoke in the winter
Yet somehow we have found ways to enjoy each’s company and have such fun
as I prepare to read all those words that last year came from that laser printer
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3NOV24
You fill me up with kisses and melt like candy in my hand
we drift across the universe that got small and big again
Making due with the hands life dealt us I know you understand
as I drive home late at night dreaming of when I see you then
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4NOV24
Now almost all the leaves are down and the nights are very cold
maybe three days left I can commute on a ‘Wing with a prayer
Round one with an IT coach and most of my hopes have been sold
start saving a seat at karaoke soon I will be there
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5NOV24
It is time to pay the motorcycle insurance again
the Subaru and Toyota have six month policies due
It’s TV show time and speed reading and more of if and when
but I am here pre-dawn remembering my arms around you
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6NOV24
So the crazy continues but hardly affects truth’s reveal
and I see our mistress to send love out to the universe
Relaxing into the growth of together and how I feel
wondering if I will get to cruise with you in my new hearse
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7NOV24
Three weeks until Thanksgiving I have not heard of any plans
will have to send a text because her daughter gets the first choice
Do I cook my turkey here without the proper pots and pans
will any of it matter Saturday when I hear your voice
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8NOV24
Not sure what the difference was but I heard all but one song
you do have a knack for finding a way to sing them all well
My heart needs to let its music free for it has been so long
it needs a whole lot more of its time living under your spell
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9NOV24
Supposed to be paying full attention to a Zoom meeting
but I am hours late writing a poem to my love today
And trying to start her day with a joyful morning greeting
maybe as I slide through these latter years love will find a way
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10NOV24
Another insanely enjoyable date night you tried to shut down and failed
another convincingly charming attempt to free you from your demons’ charm
Another moment when the momentum of past our present progress assailed
another moment we navigated in peace without causing our hearts harm
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11NOV24
What a rude awakening to realize how lack of use changes my voice
then there is stepping outside with the shed key and getting the tubers all dug
I suppose it is the difference in attitude between gripe and rejoice
speeding along life’s highway chasing you on the horizon like my new drug
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12NOV24
An early afternoon nap and I forgot that Mondays we met at the stool
whatever interrupts my routine throws me off kilter and into the blue
Some might politely call me eccentric or maybe I am simply a fool
but I was found as the storm of loss subsided and I am glad it was you
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13NOV24
I needed to hear Any Dream Will Do in this state of choose
with my hundred bumper stickers the entire world to reach
So hearing it from you how could there be a chance I could lose
just another of many reasons you are my Georgia peach
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14NOV24
There will be no shipping out over here
and we all have traits that are not so good
The times you set aside for me are dear
I honor them the way a lover should
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15NOV24
My bigger salads due to baby spinach take longer to eat
then in my rush to get to bed I forgot my only good night
These crazy hours throughout the season have at last left me beat
surely little one you are deserving of more from your white knight
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16NOV24
Past mid-November so date night will be changing pretty quick
maybe game night with Jenn and Josh can be a winter delight
There seems something lacking and I hope speed reading does the trick
as I look forward to more times when you are within my sight
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17NOV24
A week and three work days before I grab my turkey and run
this arduous season that drug along has now slipped away
laundry was background to Emily while I hope you had fun
calzone and coffees before The M Word it must be Sunday
Another date night that was not meant to be passes away
as I reach for ambition to do what needs done on the run
Wondering if those missed ‘Wing rides are but regrets on Sunday
and if their redemption just might be earned by our winter fun
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18NOV24
Sorry to hear you are not feeling well hope it goes away
I take it it’s eighties night at our favorite place to sing
Hope it is not from missing our date night and our chance to play
or that your full garage is about to get its second ‘Wing
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19NOV24
Moving in together is what falling in love used to mean
so there were no daughters who were making the rules in my past
This having time to breathe lights up the heart with another sheen
and I am sorry for the awkward of filling this new cast
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20NOV24
It is the day that marks the anniversary of so many things
the Queen stopped breathing the show went on air and the monthly reminder
While you are not feeling well and not slowing down a puppet on strings
and I am here with nothing but words trying to be your spellbinder
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21NOV24
The rain is rolling in with but a small crew going to Brighton to pave
the candles and oil lamp are burning as I listen to the furnace run
My girl across the river decorates her house for some holiday rave
and I wait for Saturday to rest in this romantic web we have spun
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22NOV24
The “official” invite to Thanksgiving came out in a text last night
there now is the challenge of what I can possibly make and then bring
The boss gives me a turkey but how could that be considered the plight
it is not like I can shop this time of year with a prayer on a ‘Wing
What would you take to a party they decided would be a pot luck
oh with your lack of cooking it would have to be something from the store
I could probably make bacon wrapped scallops that really would not suck
if we could make them together it would be so much less of a chore
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23NOV24
Wake up at midnight-thirty and shave and cut my hair for you
playing with reels when I realize that I must stay up late
With three days left in my work season I am a bit coo coo
although I cannot allow that to interfere with our date
Back to bed with a copper line connecting to Mother Earth
then up with the sun on a cloudy day and what must be done
Riding this second chance at true love for all that it is worth
ever grateful for this passenger who makes it so much fun
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24NOV24
I feel like I am about to explode
three days from winter I have waited for
Excitement snowballs into quite the load
with so much more time with you now in store
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25NOV24
How can it be that Christmas is now only a month away
the work ‘Wing still sits in the yard although it has become cold
What spell has been cast on the clock that it should spin in this way
how lucky we are we cannot pick a moment and take hold
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26NOV24
It was a long Monday so I did not get my visit from you
too little sleep and a plan that failed and it’s Tuesday just as well
I guess I am not qualified to not be told what I should do
and in such need for another date night this loneliness to quell
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27NOV24
I love the song “Love Hurts” but hope I was not its inspiration
woke up to the last day of work but it feels like another day
My heart knows we have love yet my lips always need confirmation
it is like the last class before recess and I just want to play
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28NOV24
I like how Patty panned to you as I was singing Hello
last day of work this season as well as our first day of sing
I had forgotten how reserved you can be in public though
but as the days have kept us together it has lost its sting
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29NOV24
Starting my lay off as poorly as I could have imagined
three hours plus to do a twenty-minute meditation
Told that this “life” is watching a script that already happened
if so I am glad that we wrote in our love’s celebration
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30NOV24
Maybe I should actually get those laser lights from the shed
that one elf which has spent years there hanging may not be quite enough
Maybe decorations are where the tidings are born and then spread
something I could learn from you to ease this slide into old and gruff
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1DEC24
Here we are at last in December with winter coming on
a surprise date night to be together as the seasons flow
Oh such warmth and affection your gifts toward which my heart is drawn
this sweet romance our love has woven we have this chance to know
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2DEC24
New technological difficulties add spice to the daily soup
but I write you a poem like you once asked me to do and then I hope
It is tough when our lack of involvement leaves us outside of the loop
but maybe with the right song and right joke we will find a way to cope
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3DEC24
Another night of karaoke and my voice might be back
my heart notices all your efforts to help me feel at ease
If I only had another 'Wing for that visit was whack
oh to place myself in your embrace melting into your squeeze
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4DEC24
A change from episodes to volumes is suddenly proposed
mortified may be the emotion of restarting the count
Knowing the strength of my feelings there is fear in my opposed
and the ticking of the clock is something else I must surmount
I turn to you for tact and subtle avoiding my explode
hours away from watching my dreams crash into an abyss
Of course I see the drama queen with her flanks of a la mode
whose pent-up has been waiting for a situation like this
Maybe the dragon of over-reaction wants to be slain
and just maybe little Tommy is still waiting to be saved
Could it be it is time to fall these dominos of bane
to start anew on our road which has with love and hope been paved
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5DEC24
The TV studio drains me as your beloved cat you
so I swing by for some comfort and end up watching a show
If only once in my lifetime I could know what I should do
though it seems that circumstance places me where I need to go
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6DEC24
I messed around on my phone too long and have to skip my meditations
in doing so I may be able to get cards and bumper stickers mailed
Thus leerily leaving the Earth in the hands of the United Nations
unless you succeeded in sending love and our mission alas prevailed
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7DEC24
The list of Christmas names JUST came out with only weeks to go
and now I need to figure out things that I would like to receive
Of course shopping must be started soon again not in the know
but I have a Georgia peach this year to help me to believe
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8DEC24
How helpless do I feel as you panic in bed by my side
how selfish to think that snuggle time might be taken away
The horror of being a man who is just on for the ride
then it was gone and again I was allowed to have my way
If I knew any way I could help I would never hold back
but I could not even think of anything soothing to say
Maybe someone on YouTube has some sort of phobia hack
but it seems I am left with my Google be present and pray
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9DEC24
Having another “off” day and I forgot my poem to you
then I send the first line so it is no longer a surprise
How can I forget all the things that every day I do
so I guess I am hoping to be a blessing in disguise
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10DEC24
Sorry I let my mood get out of hand I will take more care
did the pre-reading for the TV show have adverse effects
I will try to remember to celebrate that you are there
to play my part better by starting to offer proper respects
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11DEC24
It was good to see you did go out for singing and some fun
and your voice was loud and clear unlike those videos of past
I will be delighted when this year’s studio days are done
reading through those days at such a clip creates a massive blast
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12DEC24
How wonderful it is to be by you when you are having fun
to watch you sing and dance and see your laughter shared with many friends
I feel as if in this game of life again somehow I have won
then to walk you to your car in the rain for a kiss when it ends
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13DEC24
It is Friday the thirteenth and I am again such a lucky man
maybe a bit more than half my Christmas shopping is already done
Life and holidays get in the way but we find we do what we can
because sometimes simply a stolen moment together is such fun
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14DEC24
Can you send an extra love to the universe dose for me
running late again and will not get to Emily today
Five hours alone with the man you love seem to good to be
but I’ll be good to him so what I do matches what I say
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15DEC24
I am so far out of whack from that long day and its event
almost four hours into the routine I see I forgot
Hopefully my insanity hasn’t started its decent
and I beg your forgiveness for all of the things I am not
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