Bill Grace Poems

God is!
Prayer works!
Jesus came.
Life is worthwhile!
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Grace
More than a last name
Summary of a life history
(Even if you are not up to reading theology talk)
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When something is corrupt
We enter the world of madness
His face and stained hair
On Yahoo yesterday
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Like Cleopatra among her cats I sit
Waiting for the Time-Warner Man
My lifelong friend - a brother figure for sure - tells me
The dead sparrow on the front porch,
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Every evening I try to read her
five poems by Mary Oliver
five poems - no more - no less.
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When walking the puppy
It is obvious to everyone but me
That it is the owner who is being walked
And the smile that I see
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With her deep ripped jeans and guy she came
Wearing an AAMCO transmission t-shirt
She talked dogs, about the breeds we loved
Stories of their heroism - a little
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After the wonderful but long delayed meal
After after dinner coffee and desert
After the table top conversation where hours were lost
From the depths of forty five years past
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The Japanese understand us better
Than we ourselves
Hence
The Lexus automobile
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I learned years after it happened
This this distant name had killed himself.
It was Ken who told me
What had happened,
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