Bill Grace Poems

The woman who most in our church would vote a saint
Shared that if she had known at birth
The pain that that young infant would bring
The destruction of inheritance, lawyers, counselors, judges and debt
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A great teacher is kinetic art
(as surely as any gal who ever played the pole.)
They move and think and teach
are invested in a way the hirelings are not.
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On the front page of the newspaper
the beautiful woman wipes her tear
The copy beneath details a decade ago loss.
In Texas a bonfire that killed twelve is a big deal.
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Phoo on you Robert Browning
Not for your poetry but your theology:

'God's in his heaven
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Cat on lap
Tock of clock
Wife sings
Work ends
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These marks of meaning
Must strike to paper as I breathe
When there are no fresh lines here
You know I'm gone
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'Arise go forth and conquer.' - Tennyson
The poster said with young duckling pictured and quoting big T
I can still celebrate that spirit though old
But know that for duckling to grow to duck
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"The Paris Review" holds treasures.
I start by reading others.
Hanging Loose Press was discovered tonight.
These words will never be published.
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Yellow sunlight
fires
the grass
to a bed
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Three eyes glowing in the dark
two are yellow the red one's stark
this was no walk in the park
I punched yellow out
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