Bill Grace Poems

Theology is more than dancing angels
Though it has taken me a life time to see it
Good Catholic boy that Dad reared and
Thomas Aquinas loving them so.
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If to Russia you have great need to go
There is much more buried there than snow
And Hitler and Napoleon both will tell
Casual preperation is a formula for woe
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There is a decency in the world
It does not stop death
But if memory is preserved it is stronger than death.
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At Edison's great fire
He called his wife as witness
To pastel pillar twists of chemically fed flames
That could have destroyed both work and life
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The toaster oven turned house assassin
The switch was off - orange bright light was on
And feeling the unexpected heat
As 'Doubting Thomas' worked the switch
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We would do well to meet our shadow
The side we give so little publicity,
The side from which the media run like dogs
Yet revel in like wolves tearing at a carcass.
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I learned this lesson from my fathers well
To ignore the wreckage of a desk or room
As surely as a soul that should trespass against my path
That feared not even God the burden to greatness being so severe.
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The true hero
In the collision that didn't happen
Was the driver who swerved
Throwing his car with his family in it
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Cat relations have gotten better
Since learning the simple fact
Of cat need for control
Which guarantees what might pass for cat affection
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Store Kona beans in freezer
Use grinder
Brew at Fahrenheit 211
Microwave technology to help control
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