Robert Charles Howard Poems

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21.
A Podium Credo

I’d never mark my stamp on you
even if I thought I could
and with lessons drawn
from father’s “tool and die, ”
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22.
Life Be Not Proud

When proud ones boast
Of all that is loftiest
In his faith,
In her flag,
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23.
Eagles On The Mississippi

Majestic eagles ride on thermals high
    above the river’s wooded shore:
white hooded monarchs of the sky.
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24.
My Father's Dance

The phone rang after 2: 00 am.
Taking the steps in pairs
my legs faltered at his door -
paralyzed by denial.
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25.
Vesuvius

(Plaster cast at Pompeii)

                [THE TOUR GUIDE]
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26.
Songbird

Robin hums as she tends her garden
while birds perch all around
waiting for rustling seeds
to fill the slender columns.
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27.
A Many Splintered Thing

LOVE is:
   a dopamine trip
      Paris in the spring
         a really low tennis score.
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28.
Leaves Of Gold

The artist leaned in slowly
to his daughter’s sculpted visage,
placed a slender leaf of gold
across her ceramic brow
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29.
Night At The Philharmonic - 1877

Snowfall gently covered Belleville
With a blanket of softest down –
Iridescent in the gaslight coronas.
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30.
Emergence

Before first life -
a sea of primal broth.

Before the child
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