Tag: facing reality
member name: Daniel Irwin Tucker
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May 19, 2008 03:53 PM EDT --
Jewish victims of Nazi blight.
Gases still burning them in memories chamber.
Living witnesses a dying breed.
--Daniel I. Tucker
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March 13, 2009 05:25 PM EDT --
Note - Dedicated to Wade A. for encouraging me to get out of a creative slump --
primarily caused by the chronic pain of prolonged health problems -- with his poem, The Tide.
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March 20, 2008 04:56 PM EDT --
I sat by the bedside the day my father died.
The cancer that had riddled
His soul now had complete control.
He fought kicking and screaming the night the
Ambulance . . .
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June 11, 2008 05:53 PM EDT --
Yesterday The streets were wider
Now so narrow. I would go To the place of mystery Is gone.
Truths revealed. The wide-eyed wonder Of a child dissolved Into the eyes Of that distant dream . . .
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July 02, 2008 09:09 PM EDT --
Never thought I'd see the day,
My flesh and blood introduced
To the great machine
I had known
Or rather
Observed from
A distance my entire life.
A pre-teen . . .
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May 23, 2008 04:31 PM EDT --
Here I am bleeding again Taken aback by mortal fear. Staring at faith Staged by hope. Pouring rain on visceral cage- The sound of deep Calling to deep.
Repressed feelings buried by time. Epitaph . . .
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May 21, 2009 03:37 PM EDT --
"The Worst Things:
To lie in bed and sleep not.
To want for one who comes not.
To try to please and please not."
--Egyptian Proverb
It fades in and fades . . .
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January 31, 2009 05:10 PM EST --
My friend came by the other day.
As a leaf in the wind he has blown
From street to street,
Town to town.
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October 30, 2008 11:46 PM EDT --
Disclaimer. This poem is not intended to be
about any particular election, party or candidate.
Cast your ballot for
Your party's running mates.
Strange bedfellows in . . .
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November 19, 2008 02:29 PM EST --
I am weakened without Imagination
Which lifts me above the bitter waters
I have drunk from like a thirsty deer that
Ignores the faint acridity and laps the coolness
Till its mid-section . . .
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December 02, 2008 06:02 PM EST --
Note. I posted this poem last year at about this time and thought it fitting to repost.
The last few dying leaves of Autumn
Desperately clutching their sterile life-line
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