david lessard Poems

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151.
For Bethany Kim

It was a snow filled February day,
John Glenn was orbiting in space-
and in a small town in Vermont
you first showed us your smiling face.
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152.
For Steve

I was your little brother, you were the first in line-
You got your Father's love and to me that was just fine;
I followed in your shadow, the years went racing by-
I never stepped ahead of you, I never really tried.
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153.
For Sharon (My Little Sister And Second Mother)

You were always my little sister, whether you knew it or not,
Even though you thought differently, when you were just a tot-
Even way back then, you wanted to take care of me,
You put on the Big Sister act, it didn't bother me, you see-
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154.
For Devin

Memories are photographs of the mind-
they bring your face before me-
recalling the limited times we
spent together.
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155.
For Shel, George And Me

You crazy little Frenchman!
Do you really have Indian blood in you?
Or is that just a coverup for the way that you get after you been drinking firewater?
All I know is that your life revealed to me a deep melancholy, interspersed by drinking binges.
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156.
A New England Love

He loved the woods,
that ran for endless miles
under ever-changing skies -
the brooks and the streams
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157.
An Open Letter To Ethan Allen

Damn, you wouldn't believe all the changes today Ethan. Since your departure, there's been a lot of water under the bridge.
Your old, home state, Vermont, hasn't changed a great deal, at least not her natural beauty or the native Vermonter.
There's been a few monuments built with you in mind.. One's in Bennington, at the site of the old Catamount Tavern, where you and your Green Mounatin Boys were known to tilt a few mugs of rum. It's a penile-looking thing, jutting up 300 feet into the air. They call it the Bennington Battle Monument.There's also a statue of you (in marble, I believe) , at the steps of the state capital in Montepelier. You look rather dashing...sword in hand, raised up...ready to do injury. I can envision that's what you may have looked like when you surprised the British at Fort Ticondergoa, way back when, at the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
Why Montepelier is the capital and not Bennington, is beyond me. I think it has something to do with geography. Over in New York...Whoops! Didn't mean to mention that name. I remember how you felt about them Yorkers.They still infiltrate here, Ethan, buying up land, along with the New Jersey crowd and even some foreigners. Japan has an interest in this land too. Can you believe that! ?
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158.
Now There's Only Me

I felt the searing pain,
as I'm sure you did today,
Tears rolled down my face,
but I never looked away.
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159.
Seasons Of Life

In the Spring,
I struggled to learn
how to ride a bike,
catch a ball,
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160.
I Can Imagine You

I can imagine you,
at the age of twelve or so,
graduating from the eight grade.
I can imagine you,
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