Donal Mahoney Poems

Oliver Jones, now gray and grizzled, has
cut the Miller's lawn for years. A Vietnam vet,
a victim of Agent Orange, Oliver's getting old,
almost as old as the Millers, his friends for years.
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A spelunker he was
from adolescence on.
An outdoorsman
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Julie owns a cat that roams.
Recently he's been stopping at
Jack and Brenda's house where
Brenda's mourning her cat's death.
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Jane told Tarzan toodle-oo
and moved away to Arizona
because although it's hot out there
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Let's look at him from his point of view,
living as he does in a penthouse
on top of a building bearing his name,
riding an elevator down a few floors
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There are poems everywhere
but you have to find them,
a teacher told my class long ago.
I was a kid sitting at a desk,
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Standing in line
behind a father and
his little boy
waiting to reach
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On holidays I hear from Paul,
who's 80 if a day, who may
have won his war on poverty
without help from his friends.
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The media is brimming with reports
about the legacy of Barack Obama.

He's accomplished so much
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