Bill Galvin Poems

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61.
A Video Treasure Find

Today I powered up the cell phone
You used up till you lost ability to move.
I had disabled it and taken it off line
About two years ago,
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62.
Something Precious

a long while ago,
He showed me the way
to find and hold that heart of Gold;
the one with the Silvery laugh
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63.
Sweet Balinda Ballou

The best of family and friend,
Our Dear Deb would call you often,
Or you’d call her, to chat up the latest,
Or to discuss the deepest, and the spiritual.
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64.
But A Child…

We begin as a child from position curled,
For to await the responses of this world;
To trust in powers not of our control;
And to hope for outcomes good for our soul.
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65.
Wes And Jane

My to-go pizza is cooling down in the box on the bar,
But the jazz pianist is calming and convincing,
And the music is sounding better.
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66.
Old Hands

Holding Mom's hand, as I say goodnight
In a now too familiar hospital setting,
I see behind the thin translucent skin,
The hands that carried and cleaned and cared;
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67.
Café Loner

Often, two local shops are where I run into him; already there,
No matter the time or day; we don't speak, or acknowledge that
There may be a pseudo-kindred-ness… not like a doppelganger…
Just a part of yourself, from the past usually, in someone else.
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68.
(senryu) Mountain Silence

So remote, quiet…
Like the world is so far off,
And doesn't need us.
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69.
(senryu) Compass

70.
(tanka) Milestones And Millstones

A message smiles in:
"Do you feel over the hill? "
"No, I'm still climbing…
And enjoying the journey."
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