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I have been writing poems since high school and coming from a large family, they have been a huge inspiration. I have also been published in one of the old Poetry.com anthologies. Happy to have this site back in operation!

  July 2021     2 years ago

Submitted Poems 12 total

i sat down and grief came to visit


The sun is almost gone
And a shadow bores through
I cry with freedom

Loss is consuming
Yet never gone least
The memories are fond

Time isn’t quite the norm
The past has vigor
While the present is forlorn

How unreliable it...

by Vincent Parker

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Inconsequential time

Time was and shall be

  Even in our immutable

  Way of obstruction or privy

Take time and leave it be

  While our ability to savor

  Suffers immeasurably

Time is consequential

  Time is unforgiving

  Time is remembrance

...

by Vincent Parker

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Absolution

Outstanding the lore of the wild calls
  sitting and waiting for the break of dawn.
 Taking on thoughts, excuses and all.

 Twisted as black as this night
  resisting the notion of wrong or right
 stare-ing into the lonesome no...

by Vincent Parker

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These words have magic

Is that your daughter's lot in life. Tonya?

  A bullet out of nowhere, that left her in a...

by Vincent Parker

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May 21, 1994

“We lost our Queen.” Spoken by an unidentified

Women on 5th Avenue in New York City, NY US
 
 

She walked with the grace of a giraffe & gazelle combined
Style as if no other owned that...

by Vincent Parker

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Maybe but keep putting into poetry as you have talent!

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stuck or loving what you create?

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I enjoyed it as I also went to a private school with boarders K-8 and grew up in the sixties! Very well written and interesting, thank you Gregory.

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