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Tag Archives: childhood
Children of the Garden
Rooted from the garden of our innocence Cut down crosstown, cross time Casting your petals, careless, wind-borne, spilt from your cup like wine Do you, can you, remember it, locked in those vases on the mantle? Is there something that … Continue reading
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Tagged childhood, innocence, loss, meaning, neglect, nostalgia, purpose
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The Confessions of an Optimistic Underachiever
Truth be told, my high school years were difficult ones. Having been transplanted from a remote rural environment in northwestern Ohio to the sunny clime of southern California just in time to start high school, I found it difficult to … Continue reading
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Tagged achievement, childhood, creativity, failure, optimism, purpose, reality, spirituality, success
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Random Thoughts from Gulfport Mississippi
Along the coast, the wind was steady, giving the trees that stood two or three hundred yards back from the shore the chance to continue, with their low rustling, the rhythmic chant of the gulf against the sand. Youngsters, in … Continue reading
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Tagged childhood, Gulf of Mexico, Gulfport, Mississippi, nostalgia, seashores, shorelines
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Our Children’s Lives: a villanelle
Adventure here finds peril where great mystery still thrives; it won’t respond to reason or attempts to understand the me-o-centric universe that is our children’s lives. A place where having grown ourselves, we’ve proved we can survive, although what proof … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, childhood, mystery, parenting, poetic forms, villanelle
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What Dreams Remain: a balada
When I was young I sought to find the furthest reaches of the mind. Now at the edge of the abyss, I find it’s simple things I miss. There is no comfort in the mist that once I found hard … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, balada, childhood, dreams, expectations, illusions, poetic forms
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The Parable of the Sower
Sometimes, I think that I have borne a lot of resentment, and fought against the world believing to lead with your fist uncurled meant weakness, and what you deserved, you got. I lived as if my troubles were the most … Continue reading
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Tagged adulthood, childhood, daily poems, learning, maturity, parables, paradox
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Early Childhood Development
Well, you are going to grow up someday, so there are a few things you need to learn: why free love has a price most cannot pay, why it is more work to plant than to burn, why the world … Continue reading