jerry hughes Poems

Love is life. Life is love.
Everything I understand,
I understand only because
I love.
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He said
calmly, professionally
without bamboozle;
You won't know a thing
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There is a similarity about them.
Eric, and my father.
Quiet men, who went about their lives
doing well for others.
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Ye gods, eighty one!
Who'd have thought it?
Certainly not I.
So there's one delightful
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Des, what time is it?
Seventy two.
Not your age you silly bugger;
What's the right time?
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It was cold and wet
and there he was,
sitting on a park bench,
sorting his worldly posessions
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He was anyone, everyone's son.
A splendid, strapping lad
with a smile to make an angel blush;
So innocent, shy and wide.
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When I was a youth
you were not born.
When I was a man
you were a child.
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January 4,2006

It's all but two years since
my friend and mentor,
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In my minds-eye I conjure you
as would an enchanter, playing
to a crowd of one.
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