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Waiting for you: Layne’s Song for Jordan’s Sister
2016, written for novel rewrite in progress, Jordan’s Sister. Want to hear Taylor’s song for Layne? Click here. 2024 Update: Thanks to a wonderful AI (artificial intelligence) software available at ilovesong.ai, I now have audio for this wonderful song. Click below to listen. “Waiting for you” There’s more beauty in you Than could ever be true I’ve spent all of my life Waiting for you You push me away While I beg you to stay I’m new to this place And I won’t be the same I’ll take all your pain And lock it away If I don’t kiss your lips I might go insane There’s more beauty in…
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A Eulogy
“A Eulogy” 12-26-05 Written about my grandmother, my father’s mother, who died in March of 2004. She was my favorite person in the world and the reason my daughter’s middle name is Pearl, named for my Meema. When I started college, Meema would write letters to me several times a week. I have saved every single one of them. What can I say about her? Simple doesn’t say it— Beautiful is too generic. All I can say is that I loved her, And can’t believe she’s gone. I still think of her gentle old face, Hollowed in its frailty, smiling while writing letters to me. She told stories of the past with…
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Coward
“Coward” Iambic Pentameter-Metrical Poetry Workshop 2002 Her bright safe haven should be haunted but Warm sun breaks through the cold attic window And over her bruised face onto the stairs. Her best friend, though not real, once lived there with The ghosts and dreams she had not yet foreseen. No one knows she hides there—those steps of loss. The hurt is fresh with agony, anger. His cowardly grace keeps her awake nights. She cries and thinks he could not have hurt her. Not again, she thought she’d be happy then. Disclaimer: I loathe writing metrical poetry. I did the best I could, but wasn’t really happy with anything I wrote…
