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I'm 43 and a proud father a four beautiful daughters and married to the most beautiful woman in the world.

  July 2022     1 year ago

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The wall

As I lie there awake, staring at the walls, I stopped and think to myself what if it falls. I wondered to myself as the night goes on should I let go or should I hang on, I keep waiting and praying for the day, the phone rings and I pick up and they...

by Don Swanson

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What I miss

The time is here for me to say I miss you each and every day I miss your smell I miss your touch I miss your nose I miss your kiss so much I miss your skin the soft gentle touch I have to say I miss you so much I miss your taste I miss your hair I...

by Don Swanson Jr

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My Soldier

Uncle Sam, Uncle Sam, why you do what you do , you took my precious wife to a land so strewn you've taken her so far, so far away from home, so far away that we both feel alone, you took her away to a land filled with hate not just the enemy but...

by Don Swanson Jr

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You used to.

When the lights go out, what do you see? a blank silhouette? or a vision of me? you said you loved me, you said you cared, and all of a sudden, you disappeared, out of the shadows , out of the lights. The dark creepy air, as you sit there and look,...

by Don Swanson Jr

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Her......She.

She's the one I think of everyday, sometimes in my thoughts because she's so far away.
Miles and miles, thousands of miles apart, the day she left was the day I fell apart ,never knowing what would happen, never knowing what could be, even on...

by Don Swanson Jr

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I just added two different poems on here and one of them turned out great but for some reason the second one I posted when I click on it it only brings up half of the poem I checked to see if it was too long for the editorial but it was under the amount any ideas 

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