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Milk Run (the photograph )

  • April 15, 2023

They say that if you look at a photo long enough you Can sense the feelings of the people at that juncture of their life. Perhaps that’s true to some extent. As I looked back in time at a particular photo my neighbor took of my sisters and me, The more...

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When Summer Ends

  • April 10, 2023

No more noisy fun summersMy Music has now changed drummers Those summer faces now gone for goodsweet little children growing up as they should Teaching small bodies to swimNow they quickly dive in on a whim They don’t need you anymoreBecause they fill a new door you grow older, and life...

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The Footstep Pages

  • April 7, 2023

Through the agesMany footprint pages God’s book becomes filledAs lives quietly are stilled Leaving their DNA blueprintFor a spectacular future event Generations will seeEternal life will finally be Many footprint pagesReturning in stages From the grave, they will ariseRight before our very eyes We await the days through sadnessAn end to...

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The Great Depression

  • March 30, 2023

The Great Depression was a worldwide economic downturn that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. It was the most prolonged and severe Depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world, sparking fundamental changes in economic institutions, policy, and economic theory.  My mother was a young girl during this turmoil  She...

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Hearts

  • March 30, 2023

My heart will always be thereEasy to find it; you know I care Little acts of kindness sharedA smile, a look behind a blank stare I can not speak the words out loudI keep them intact above the clouds You should know what’s in my heartBecause you felt it beating from...

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Unspoken

  • March 23, 2023

Speech is silver; silence is goldenLife slides along days unfolded With Words not spokenOur hearts get broken A challenge to keep thoughtless words insideBut it’s better for me if comments I hide So many things left unsaidBanging inside my heart and my head silently I will continue to march onPlant a...

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Seventeen

  • March 17, 2023

when I was seventeenNot a girl or a woman,somewhere in between The world in front of mePathways to travel and aWide world to see Life was excitingExperiences beckoningAnd inviting I don’t regret the choices I madeAs I think back nowBefore my memories fade I smile inside as I remember this dayAt...

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Mind Wandering

  • March 14, 2023

The feel of the sun on your skinRiding the waves on the open sea some days you wander in your mindto a place you would like to be a time when everything felt rightthe days in which you took delight The thrill of sights that took your breathno amount of money...

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Homes Collection of Love

  • March 13, 2023

Home is a collection of things we loveFighting against the odds and rising above A place to hang all kinds of hatsVisiting neighbors starting up chats Watching children playing in the yardA time when life was rarely hard Home is the place you can always goWhen anxieties enter and cold winds...

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Because Love Never Fails

  • February 28, 2023

life is only happy when you have something to loveI think we were made that way by our God above Money is temporary, a fleeting value for gathering thingsIt can never bring happiness to the heart unseen When you have a wagonload of friends and familytrue love and contentment are a...

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