Tag: life
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Feels Like The First Time
It’s almost impossible for me to figure out the first book I ever really got lost in. Too long ago. I was a book-worm from a very very young age. I remember a teacher telling my mother I could read at the 12th grade level when I was in 3rd grade. It was a way…
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The Last Drop
“It is not the last drop that empties the water-clock, but all that which previously has flowed out…” – Seneca . Neither here Neither there Neither anywhere . I wonder what they thought When they found him . Not quite ours Not quite yours Not quite theirs . I wonder what they thought When they…
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Island Memories
It was before most cars had air-conditioning; so even on the hottest days we drove with the windows rolled down. Always in that black ’63 Impala, or later on, the blue one. And finally the Nova. My grandparents were working class people with union jobs. They bought American. They bought Chevy. WMCA New York was…
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Disconnected
It hangs in my memory, isolated. I can’t reminisce because there is no one else that would remember it. It’s weird, such an impactful experience. I remember the hot sweaty dance club, our senses heightened by days off the grid. I remember the cold mountain air at night. I remember the night before we started…
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What They’ll Tell You
They’ll tell you to take it easy To slow down To be careful You’re not what you once were You could hurt yourself Or others You’re vulnerable You’re harder to teach Naturally You should get rid of some of that old stuff It’s just clutter Just memories Just your memories Just your memory cues…the things…
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Light and Dark
He was born into the light, Chris-Crafts and girls in white swim suits. That’s where he met her. In the light But she belonged in the dark, and she carried her own light like a creature from the deep. She enchanted him and took him with her. Then she left and took it with her,…
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In The End
In the end. It won’t matter. That’s a lock. You can hustle. You can flex. Live your best life. But the only thing, Will be the one, The person, Holding your hand. © Glenn R Keller 2021, All Rights Reserved
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The Characteristics of Happy People
I’ve had the opportunities to make friends and acquaintances from all over the world. From different faiths, political beliefs, and personality types. I at one time had Christian friends from Lebanon and shortly after that a Muslim roommate from Lebanon. I lived in a graduate dormitory with people from literally every continent and worked for…
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Wistful
It is the home you made but can no longer enter It is the lover that you can no longer kiss It is the pain that you cannot undo It is the scar that you cannot erase It is the rapture you cannot reclaim It is the mundane It is the painful It is the…
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Forgotten
Someone lived there. Someone laughed there. Someone loved there. Someone mourned there. Someone wished there. Someone cheered there. Someone cried there. Someone died there.