Bill Grace Poems

Rainer Maria Rilke gives good advice:
'... go into the depths in which your life takes rise
there you will find the answer to the question if you MUST create.'
You have received bad counsel
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This man unknown to my hand,
'seditious... fakir' to Churchill, haunts me.
Owning nothing he seems to own my soul,
Not even from the solemnity of grave but a flowing river
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I try to give the world a little something
every day that I am here.
How sad it is I fail to speak
great or even small truths.
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Fatigue, deep pain in her voice
Negotiation of the details
The death, cost of services,
acknowledgement of griefs
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There sleeps beneath our plastic roof
A frail piece of Russian soil
Enough of who I am for me to know no other.
She sleeps and I turn from diversion
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It seems fair to me
letting the Poemhunter.com numbers float
Robert Frost is not always #1
nor Kipling or Maya Angelou or even beloved Emily
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It seems fair to me
letting the Poemhunter.com numbers float
Robert Frost is not always #1
nor Kipling or Maya Angelou or even beloved Emily
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In the case of Jackson
I know little
the seminary professor
transformed by the alchemy of war
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The great professor from Harvard
retired to being on Berkeley's faculty.
I sat in his lecture hall
and he held undergraduate office hours,
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A word with you jack rabbitt riser
There have been some studies on extended longevity
It seems there is a pattern to those who break 100
They do not erupt from tender sleep's deep grasp
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