Baggage carried for way too long
How to shed pain and confusion
When so much time has gone
Down the hourglass
With no words, no airing
Of the hurt, of the guilt, of the
Need to release the demons
From my soul
New man, unwilling to carry
The trunks and bags and cartloads
Of issues unaddressed
Blurting them out onto paper
Reading them aloud
Sharing them honestly
Not for hurt but to unburden
A soul in chains
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edited January 11, 2016
Black Ice – v4
(editing version 3)
edited September 1, 2012
Black Ice – v3
Edited August 31, 2012
“Black Ice – v2”
December 12, 2007
“Black Ice”
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edited December 29, 2015
Demons – v2
edited December 29, 2015
Did You Hear Her Cry – v2
edited December 29, 2015
The Crash – v2
posted February 14, 2004
(the 13th
anniversary of my father’s fatal accident)
written June 18, 2001
10:54pm
The Crash
about my
father's death
February 14,
1991
and my car accident
the day I applied to law
school
edited December 18, 2015
The Submariner – v2
&
edited December 17, 2015
Meticulous – v2
&
edited December 18, 2015
Adam Asked – v2
==========
edited October 22, 2015
Did you brace for impact –
v2
edicted October 22, 2015
Mile Marker 19 – v8
(editing original)
edited October 5, 2015
Like the Venus Fly Trap –
v9
(editing version 5)
&
edited October 3, 2015
Why on this day – v3
(editing original)
edited October 19, 2014
Why on this day – v2
July 1, 2014
Why on this day
“My Prayers Weekend!”
“Next Day Stretch”
draft a note to God
about a day when you
struggled
with a big question
for June 29, 2014
read June 30, 2014
&
edited June 27, 2014
A vivid memory – v2
June 27, 2014
A vivid memory
Matthew 28:20 (NRSV)
Romans 8:31-39
Upper Room Daily
Devotional
“In Dark Times”
by Don Greeley
about Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder
for June 26, 2014
read June 27, 2014
Upper Room Daily
Devotional
for March and April 2014
&
edited August 15, 2015
Here it comes – v3
(editing version 2)
edited January 12, 2014
Here it comes – v2
January 12, 2014
Here it comes
January 12, 2014
I am not ready
(conversation by Dean
McKenney about his
bad car accident 40 years
ago)
January 12, 2014
an accounting to God
January 12, 2014
Honor their walk
Romans 14:10-12
Romans 14:1-12
Romans 14
Men’s Bible Study
led by Steve Curtis
Stetson Memorial United
Methodist Church
Patten, ME
January 12, 2014
&
edited August 4, 2015
Like the Venus Fly Trap –
v8
(editing version 5)
edited May
9, 2015
Ten Years –
v2
April 23,
2004
Ten Years
see also
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edited January
11, 2014
Mile Marker 19
– v7
(editing
version 6)
Edited
November 9, 2013
Mile Marker 19
– v6
(editing
version 3)
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edited March 21, 2015
Like the Venus Fly Trap –
v7
(editing version 5)
edited December 3, 2014
Like the Venus Fly Trap –
v6
(editing version 3)
Edited November 9, 2013
“Like the Venus Fly Trap –
v5”
Edited October
24, 2013
“Like the
Venus Fly Trap – v4”
Edited October
11, 2013
“Like the
Venus Fly Trap – v3”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“Like the
Venus Fly Trap – v2”
December 20,
2012
“Like the
Venus Fly Trap”
edited February 11, 2014
“hiding in the ice – v9”
edited January 4, 2014
“hiding in the ice – v8”
(editing version 5)
Edited September 28, 2013
“hiding in the ice – v7”
(editing version 3)
Edited September 28, 2013
“hiding in the ice – v6”
(editing version 2)
Edited September 25, 2013
“hiding in the ice – v5”
Edited August 2, 2013
“hiding in the ice – v4”
Edited December 26, 2012
“hiding in the ice – v3”
Edited December 21, 2012
“hiding in the ice – v2”
December 21, 2012
“hiding in the ice”
Edited December 26, 2012
“Animated / Evil – v2”
December 20, 2012
“Animated / Evil”
Edited December 26, 2012
“A latent danger – v3”
December 20, 2012
“A latent danger – v2”
“A latent danger”
Edited December 26, 2012
“Smiling in the freezing –
v2”
December 20, 2012
“Smiling in the freezing”
Edited December 26, 2012
“A frozen trap – v2
December 20, 2012
“A frozen trap”
Edited December 26, 2012
“was the road innocent –
v2”
December 21, 2012
“was the road innocent”
Edited December 26, 2012
“Did the ice know – v2”
December 20, 2012
“Did the ice know”
series of new poems
also about my father’s
death,
after reviewing poem by
Jacob Montgomery,
“Icy Lanes”,
(see more of his poems at:
and exchanging emails with
him about that poem
and my father’s death
2/14/1991
&
Edited August 22, 2013
“eyes not shut – v2”
August 22, 2013
“eyes not shut”
a poem in conjured after
reading poem
“TATTOOS AND ATTITUDE”
by Chip Bergeron
&
Edited
September 20, 2012
new poem, “Did
you brace for impact”
&
Edited
September 20, 2012
“Mile Marker
19 – v5”
&
Edited
September 12, 2012
“Mile Marker
19 – v4”
editing
version 2 below
&
Edited September
12, 2012
“Mile Marker
19 – v3”
editing the
original again
inspired by
reading it at Poets’ Corner
monthly poetry
reading,
at the Suncook
Senior Center
September 10,
2012
&
edited June 6,
2012 (adding an additional last stanza)
“Mile Marker
19 – v2”
&
October 2, 2011
Did You Hear Her Cry
after rereading earlier
poem,
“Mile Marker 19”
&
Edited April 23, 2013
“No Life in Your Eyes –
v2”
February 11, 2011
“No Life in Your Eyes”
remembering the 20th
anniversary
of my father’s death,
February 14, 1991
written at the House of
Purpose coffeehouse
Hillsboro, NH
February 11, 2011
&
new poem February 11, 2014
Where you are scattered
posted March 22, 2004
written 2/26/2001
Adam Asked
posted March 18, 2004
written March 6, 2001
Meticulous
posted March 17, 2004
written 3/2/2001 and
3/5/2001
The Submariner
posted February 18, 2004
edited April 25, 2015
Home Again – v2
edited April 23, 2015
Your final resting place –
v2
edited April 25, 2015
Ashes – v2
March 2, 2001
“Ashes”
posted February 18, 2004
March 2, 2001
“Home Again”
&
posted March 10, 2004
written April 3, 2001
8:47am
Demons
&
posted
February 8, 2004
original
version written 5/20/2000
“Mile Marker
19”
posted to my
blog on February 8, 2004,
as the 15th poem put on the site -
about my
father’s fatal car accident
near Mile
Marker 19
on the
Spaulding Turnpike
Rochester, NH
February 14,
1991 at 7:02pm
Valentine’s
Day
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