John Tansey Poems

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1.
A Love Poem For Anyone...

For you, the hapless peruser,
who happens to thumb upon this page,
along a dusty shelf of books.
Was not haphazard at all;
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2.
My Mother...Victimized With Dementia

My mother,
I have not seen her in years;
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3.
A Tragedy In Two Acts.....The Slow Death Of A Marriage

ACT I

It was not your presence,
rather its absence
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4.
Middle Age...

At end, when it is too late
to start anew.
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5.
Gemini

My mind goes from mood to mood,
With no chronology nor sequence of events;

The effect of one thing falling into
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6.
Letting Go......To Be, Or Not To Be?

Upon a roof,
A potential leaper,
Held by the hand of his savior
In a fingerlock hold on humanity.
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7.
A Whittle Of Words...

A Whittle of Words...
Sitting, slumped in a chair,
On a wooden porch
And under the sun
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8.
The Abyss Of The Poem....

With hand unsteady,
I stop
at the first line’s edge of a jagged poem,
looking down
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9.
When The Universe Collapses

One has lived long enough
when the world ends,
the universe collapses
and time, itself, reverses...
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10.
Reminiscing On Childhood…

Reminiscing on Childhood…

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