Donal Mahoney Poems

Sometimes an egg
comes out of a chicken

Sometimes a poem
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Deep into a warm winter
the Japanese red maple keeps
her crown of brilliant leaves
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I was very small
the day they bombed Pearl Harbor
but I remember my mother
dashing around the kitchen
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Mae mailed Christmas cards today,
fewer again this year
because death has made
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Christmas is now the Holidays.
But Hanukkah is still Hanukkah
and Ramadan is still Ramadan.
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It's your anniversary so
you're thinking steak
but your wife wants ramen
so you go to a nice place
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Fred has been working with an agency called Hunters for the Hungry for five years. During that time, his food bank has received thousands of pounds of venison to feed the poor. This year, however, when Fred received no call from the agency saying it was ready to deliver the meat, he called the organization himself.

The answering machine was full and Fred never got through. Finally, he called a state officer for the agency and to his dismay he found out what the problem was.
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It was a mistake to take home economics out of the curriculum at so many high schools, says Wally, a retired teacher who has an ongoing interest in education. He taught high school for many years and still misses his students.

At a Walmart recently there was an incident Wally can't forget. It pained him deeply because it made him think about the quality of high school education today. He's not convinced it is what it should be at many schools.
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Bill hates to go to parties but he loves to go to wakes. One of the advantages of being old, he says, is that there are fewer parties to go to but a lot more wakes.

At parties he finds a distant corner, stands there like a sentinel and watches the young folks have fun.
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Middle of the night
someone's in the house.
Can't be the wife
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