Tag: life
member name: David W.
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December 20, 2009 10:17 PM EST --
TIME VS. GATHER
© 2009 by David Wainland
30 words
I’ve given Gather all,
it’s taken up my time.
There is another life, where
I need . . .
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June 08, 2009 12:15 PM EDT --
THOUGHTS OF LIFE
A bit of word play with all the lines beginning with the letter T
© 2009 by David Wainland
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June 03, 2009 12:34 PM EDT --
AGED BONES
© 2009 by David Wainland
My aged bones
Suffer wrinkled skin
Parched brown
Divided by hints of
Canary yellow
Smoothed . . .
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April 02, 2009 10:29 AM EDT --
IT IS NOT WHAT HAPPENS...
We were about three hours out of Ashville, N.C. and two hours west of I-95, roughly eleven hours from our home in Boca Raton, Florida . . .
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March 28, 2009 02:21 PM EDT --
LESSONS
© 2009 by David Wainland
Emergence
I can learn anything
I want to learn everything
There is so much to learn
I cannot . . .
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April 07, 2008 10:43 AM EDT --
© David Wainland 2006
I came into this world alone,
Kicking and screaming,
Clutching at darkness and solitude.
No fear of the end,
But frightened of the . . .
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January 07, 2009 11:19 AM EST --
Dedicated to my mother-in-law who passed away seven years ago . She was a victim of a stroke, incapable of speech, eating, walking. Inside, she was alive. Tillie passed within the year.
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April 04, 2009 11:56 AM EDT --
IT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENS...TWO YEARS LATER
© 2007 By David Wainland
Time, like a cool sheet on a warm summer's night, slides over us and helps erase . . .
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June 09, 2009 10:21 AM EDT --
For my son Jeremy 3/1/73 - 7/6/03
LOST
© 2009 by David Wainland
Everyone is lost to time
What counts is how they spent . . .
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September 25, 2008 10:44 AM EDT --
© by David Wainland
There is a time in the early hours
when black sky gives way to morning gray.
The moon hangs low and silver in the horizon
and the brightest . . .
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February 10, 2009 12:04 PM EST --
By David Wainland © 2009
I didn't know it then,
For I was only ten,
That love would always rule my life.
Across the class she sat,
Her books . . .
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July 01, 2009 10:35 AM EDT --
I BRAKE FOR SPEED BUMPS
By David Wainland
Speed bumps, a poor analogy
For the moments of crisis in life
I have always faced those occasions
With the resistance . . .
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September 23, 2009 05:15 PM EDT --
Our holiday, Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is approaching. It is the day we repent for our sins. It is also a day we remember our lost family. Besides reciting prayers in temple, many . . .
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April 02, 2008 09:51 PM EDT --
© David Wainland 2008
April 4 1945, I have a new brother. For five years I am the only child and suddenly this squalling bundle of red face baby is getting all the attention. I was . . .
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January 21, 2009 12:43 PM EST --
MY NAME IS DAVID
By David Wainland © 2009
I am first-born,
they named me David,
after a grandfather,
I never met,
a mark of respect,
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April 29, 2008 09:31 AM EDT --
My father used to quote and old cliché, "You can call me anything, but don't call me late for dinner."
Well, today our society has become so label conscious it is almost . . .
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September 24, 2008 11:01 PM EDT --
As we stepped out of the car for our holiday visit to my son's grave my wife asked, "Did you take the stone and the prayer" It called to mind an old war movie called a . . .
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April 21, 2009 04:36 PM EDT --
FINDING STRENGTH IN A STORM
© 2009 by David Wainland
Dad dropped off the last step of the twenty-foot ladder and smiled up at his latest project. . . .
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September 29, 2008 11:44 AM EDT --
Our holiday, Rosh Hashanna , the Jewish New Year, begins at sundown tonight, 9/29/08. As a mark of respect and tradition we visited our son's grave yesterday morning . This poem . . .
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October 06, 2008 10:24 PM EDT --
© David Wainland 2008
I check my watch many times a day
how is it the hands slow down in anticipation
and speed up in moments of dread
Days, weeks, . . .
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