Poems

Terry Pace

Dec 9, 2020
1 min

I'm Not Ready Yet

By Francis Grant, Jr. I’m not ready yet . . This one goes out to anyone who it might concern . . You know, I have heard there is a normal...

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Terry Pace

Dec 9, 2020
1 min

The Cross Over

By Francis Grant, Jr. On the occasion of my mother’s death on December 1, 2018. Just came out like this: The Cross Over Oh, please do not...

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Terry Pace

Nov 5, 2020
1 min

Sun So Warm

By Terry M Pace (1999) Sun so warm, like when I was a child Lounging on my parents back porch in Texas Days so bright, like autumn in...

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Terry Pace

Oct 10, 2020
1 min

December Cranes

By Terry M Pace (1994) North wind blowing Autumn away Winter approaches Evening falls Out on the prairies Over the scrapes of rivers...

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Terry Pace

Oct 9, 2020
2 min

The Cabin

By Loren Eiseley (RIP 1907-1977) Rough hewn, square logged. As we rode up, a sand dune was just beginning to swallow the far side. The...

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Terry Pace

Sep 16, 2020
1 min

Where I Stand

By Terry M Pace (June 7, 1981) You ask me where I stand Out of your certainty Out of your naivety Out of your concern Out of your fear I...

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Terry Pace

Sep 16, 2020
1 min

trashcan lives

By Charles Bukowski the wind blows hard tonight and it's a cold wind and I think about the boys on the row. I hope some of them have a...

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Terry Pace

Aug 10, 2020
1 min

Waiting

By Terry M Pace (1993) Clothes spinning in the dryer The creaking of old wood Footsteps, hallucinations, ghosts Brightening flowers...

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Terry Pace

Jul 27, 2020
2 min

She gave me wings

By Francis Grant, Jr. I sit under this tree and feel the warm breeze and spy this bird looking down on me . . “Can we come together to...

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Terry Pace

Jul 27, 2020
2 min

Sundown

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (RIP 1807–1882). Complete Poetical Works. 1893. In the Harbor, page 353. THE SUMMER sun is sinking low; Only...

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Terry Pace

Jul 6, 2020
1 min

won’t you celebrate with me

By Lucille Clifton won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and...

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Terry Pace

Jun 14, 2020
1 min

Good morning Insulin

By Francis Grant, Jr. Good morning daily stories well written by those with dry throats and teeth missing those with pricked and sore...

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Terry Pace

Jun 14, 2020
2 min

Letter to Grandma

By Francis Grant, Jr. I made it home surprised I survived . . The food was good. The people were great. The doctor said cancer. Now I...

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A Memorial Day Conversation with my Dad in Absence

Terry Pace

May 25, 2020
4 min

A Memorial Day Conversation with my Dad in Absence

By Terry M Pace (1978/1994/2020) Dad, I can’t be judged so easily by your standards, my generation hasn’t had the same chance or...

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Terry Pace

May 11, 2020
1 min

Counting Ribs (for my Uncle OB)

One two three… Hold on now! Hold still! Over and over One two three… The simple game Of counting ribs One two three… Uncle OB and me In...

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Terry Pace

May 10, 2020
1 min

I Want to Be Like You (for Ronnie)

I want a radio Like you listen to I want new boots Brown, like you wear I want a car To drive like you I want a hand Just like yours Why...

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Terry Pace

Apr 26, 2020
2 min

Leaving Mississippi

By James A. Autry Part of me never left and another part is always leaving, leaving Mississippi but never gone. “Jimmy when you gonna...

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Terry Pace

Apr 22, 2020
2 min

Testimony: 1968

By Rita Dove Who comforts you now that the wheel has broken? No more princes for the poor. Loss whittling you thin. Grief is the constant...

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Terry Pace

Apr 8, 2020
2 min

To Those in the Limbo of Illness

By May Sarton (appears in The Silence Now 1988) You who have been here before, Waiting. Not knowing. Not living, Not dying Waiting...

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Terry Pace

Apr 3, 2020
2 min

Kindness

By Naomi Shihab Nye Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a...

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