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Tag Archives: sickness
Before the Last Visit to the Vet
The smell of the sick-house lingers where the medicines are mixed; even fresh washed clothes and fingers tend to keep the reek of it. The taste of food is changed, its scent turned sour and stale, reducing appetites to nil … Continue reading
My once sweet voice
My once sweet voice, so innocent and full of strength and power is now reduced to rasp and hum, its range half what it was. It rumbles, where it once so glibly glissed; the pure head tone has sunk into … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, maturity, performance, regret, sickness, singing, time
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To Progress: a bucolic
To those who wish the past returned and simple life brought back in fashion, a relationship with the land renewed and the blight of urban living shunned, a hundred years of progress dissolved in the bliss of primitive survival, Who … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged bucolic, daily poems, family, poetic forms, progress, sickness, technology
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Lady Sorrow
for Starlight Dances When the laughter in your eyes can’t hide the pain inside your heart And the world around you will not stop to listen When you wake up in the morning with a space inside your soul And … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations, Poems, Statements
Tagged catastrophes, loss, love, protection, sickness, sorrow, Starlight Dances
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