What I Miss
While I miss
You so very much
I am lucky to keep
Memories of our first times
The first time
We danced - kissed -
Held each other tight
The night we watched stars move
We were on the beach
On our backs on blankets
Talking for hours
Watching the stars
Before stars I saw
Just seemed fixed
With you I realized
They moved
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Barry Bonds Indicted-More News at 11 and Ad. Inf.
OJ and Barry what else can I say
Court TV has been waiting for this day
Their ratings in 2008 will soar
I can see the crowd hear the roar
Both just trying to get their 'stuff' back
And if you believe that 'Jack'
Do you think Bond's value won't drop
Even if his friends to a plea never cop
Giants picked a good time to let him go
He was no longer the national show
Put on hold the Hall of Fame
Indicted what a shame
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A Cowboy VALENTINE-She Opened My Eyes - - What a Surprise
Thought I knew
Where this was a goin'
Sure read the signs wrong
She was a showin'
All I could see
Was her blue eyes a blinkin'
'Than' I started to fall in love
What was I a thinkin'
My horse has never
Thrown me so hard
I 'spected us to be forever
'Than' she done turned her last card
Cashed in stood up and
Just walked away
Leaving me holding an empty bag
Not knowing what to say
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Great Plans
Overheard a teacher
the other day
Having coffee
Telling a friend
Gave this assignment
to my second graders
You're shipwrecked
on an island
Draw me a picture
then tell me a story
of what you would do
to save yourself
Boys: 'With my sword
I would do this
With my gun
I would do that'
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Birds Fly
A little too tall for me
Beautiful flowing hair
Over a tailored jacket
Purse and matching - - - - - -
Those long legs
Then she turned
I saw the face with
The same sharp crisp lines
The rest of her had promised
She went walking by - - - - -
Not for me
Just to get by
The strides
The way her jacket swung
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2008: We Don't Have All the Answers
He's been to Sunday School
He's had a chance to read the Bible
He's see pictures of The Garden
Colored Noah the animals and the Ark
Now he's home and ready to play
Wants to draw a dinosaur
Asks me what colors to use
How big to make the teeth and eyes
I wasn't sure how to tell him
All we have are impressions
On rocks fossilized gray dusty bones
I admitted I wasn't sure
What colors or how big
Science - I did tell him - isn't sure
And the Bible
Just doesn't say
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NEWS -You don't want to get stopped up
My morning newspaper's late again
If I were desperate for news
Which I am not
I could the internet cruise
From CNN to the London Times
I could click here and there
Get second hand more news
Than I could bear
I want my newspaper in my hands
That is the point you see
To check high school sports
Working on my first cup of coffee
Make sure I'm not listed as an obit'
See what businesses have decided to quit
That's all the news that will fit
'Cause it's time for my AM s___!
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1968 Talking About the Revolution
I took off my glasses
that I might see
I took off my shoes
that I might be
The one I was in search of
The one I never had
The one that by finding
I would be so glad
I took off my watch
so I wouldn't know the time
I took off to nature
hoping to find the sign
The one I was in search of
The one I never had
The one that by finding
I would be so glad
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Not A Pretty Sight
A poem should be a pretty thing
Or that is what I once thought
Really a poem touches you
Where you are and where you are not
As there's different types of touching
There's different types of poems
Some metered some rhymed
Some just a cry
As there's touching when you
Politely just want to get by
Then there's touching when you're
Afraid and think you're going to cry
Of course there's back slapping
Hand holding and warm embrace
Then there's that last touch
Just before the color leaves you face
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2008: Is It Worth It?
*Tom J. Mariani - -a found poem on a Starbucks' cup
credit to Katy Croff
People often ask
if it is worth it
to work at sea
*(or to write poetry)
isolated from the world
far from loved ones,
seasick, and running on
three hours' sleep.
*(When you can't write
you watch the clock creep)
To lay eyes on something
never before seen by anyone,
to learn something new
about our planet,
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