sharon wildey Poems

What is true friendship? She pleaded for an answer
It is a dance, he said, Trust is the rhythm
Tentative steps to the tune
And in building confidence in our partners
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You did not live a day
Without food on the table and a roof over your head
You did not lack for medical care
Your teeth grew straight
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Suicide lady
Comes every day
Sometimes she stays a long time
And sometimes not
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I planted my brokenness under an avocado tree today
Fertilized it with my self-critic that I shot between the eyes last week
And buried in my compost heap
For just such an occasion
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Do my grandchildren call you Grandma
Like my children call you Mama
You who produced nothing but heartache
You who never knew me but
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Where is the freedom
When you grow up in a small town by the tracks
And must live by their rules
Or they drop you like a piece of the manure
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Born to nothing
Opened her own door
And Ike walked through it
Ike like all the others we married
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CHARLIE’S POEM
I breathed my song into the air
I showed my heart to the sun
I raced the stars and touched the clouds
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Erase the Christmas tree
With your favorite ornaments
You know the ones you put on the tree since they were little
Since they were little, loving and easily amused
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I took my broken soul up to the mountain
Channeling Moses
I went to the mountain top
and cried out to God
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