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Disembarkation Day memories

The happy go lucky faced old man,

war tunes whistling, his way down our street

tapping his stick to their various rhythms

on top of the little wall, that ran alongside of him

where { I know }  he hopes to see

left-over breadcrumbs have been placed.

 

As the clock is about to hurry me away to work,

I suddenly recall some of those whistled tunes,

and, I'm back on Granddad'...

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Unbreakable

In her elderly hand, her Grandsons,

although the age gap difference between them both

is extremely wide,

the love gap difference between them both isn't 

because it doesn't exist.

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Off beat!

If only, I could live in a world, 

where Bells, would be able to say, ' come to Jesus, and be saved!

and where ' QUACK! 

is a funny, cute thing said by a Duck

 

I could be convinced, that you would be convinced,

that these silly ideas, I pull out of thin air,

and these poetic shapes, with which I darken the white page with,

 

perhaps have some connection, to my thoughts,

...

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