Taking Stock...The Things That Matter Most

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A Husband, Father, Son, Sailor and Poet. I Love my family most in this world...everything else plays second fiddle. My name is Kevin...and I hope to get to know you on here. Stop by and say "hello".

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Ferris Wheel

I try and scrape us
together. Cut words,
and paste them into
existence. Breathe
life into the lungs
of love. Write your
Image into verse.
There are
no words,...

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THANK YOU!

Thank you, editors, for the prose feature of Love Letter #7! I feel honored! (First ever prose feature!)

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Canoe

Shores rise with
Sunlight.
Burnt skin,
Burnt buds of fire
Sticks
Sizzled fine
Ashore rock upon
Dirt of wine cooler
Laughs and
Bubbled bong stories
About good
Old days when

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The frost is forming
forming slow
slow is death
death of fauna and fame
fame dwindles, heads bow
bow low, shoulders sag
sag they do, weighed down
down deep the heart weeps

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Brought together by life’s events,
both good and bad,
twisting and braiding to guide us
to where we are today -
looking forward to a combined future.
And yet…
If I held...

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harmony

There’s always something beautiful
to be found in the sad harmonies.

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“The Boy Who Died in His Sleep”

Jeremy tries to scream to force himself awake,
He knows that even if this is all a dream, this is not fake
A portal to the Inter-Dimension has...

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feeling

you continue to punish me
for sins that we committed
together
and no matter what i tried,
no recompense could be made.

and now the book remains
unwritten; chapter...

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goodbye

will you still smile
when you realize that i’m gone
and that i’ve said goodbye?

will you still smile
when you’ve realized
the mistake you’re making
by allowing me to say...

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Another Year

Sometimes time moves a little fast

but we cannot stay stuck in the past

so we step up and walk through the ages

watching our life turn like pages

and not all the...

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