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billsheehan1
- Feb 28, 2021
- 1 min
THE CONTEST (poem, 1-15-74)
The contest was held in the valley low, And for miles around the people would go, To see the winner for the next year, And give him or...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 28, 2021
- 1 min
PHOENIX (poem, 1-4-74)
They call him Phoenix, but few know why, For few know legends or why men cry. It’s said that this man’s sorrowful past, Was dark and...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 28, 2021
- 1 min
WHY? (poem, 4-12-73)
Through the window shone the sun, The day was warm and bright. It seemed a day for hope and fun, A joyful, verdant, summer sight. He...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 28, 2021
- 1 min
THE OTHER SIDE (poem, 1-11-73)
While working on his plot of ground The man looked up to stare At stones piled high to form a mound, To keep him out of there. He slowly...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 28, 2021
- 1 min
SHE WHISPERS (poem, 11-20-72)
She whispers softly into my ear. Down my cheek there rolls a tear. She holds me close to her at night, Making going to bed a pure...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 28, 2021
- 1 min
TIME FLIES…6-26-70 poem
Time, ever so deceiving. Time is not for pleasing. Through the front door of youth, Out the back door of old age, Often silent, often...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 28, 2021
- 2 min
THE YEARS AND ME (poem, 5-15-70)
When I was young, maybe three, I used to dream about the sea. I used to think of things I’d do, While sailing on waves of blue. When I...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 28, 2021
- 1 min
VIETNAM SOLDIER (poem, 4-3-70)
Must the young soldier die, Without really knowing why? Must his widow weep, From thoughts of his mined jeep? Must the soldier’s father...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 28, 2021
- 1 min
TEACHER ANNE FRIEND (poem, 4-2-70)
She entered my life one lonely spring, As a teacher who was always helping. She asked me to come to school, And use learning as a tool To...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 28, 2021
- 2 min
FRIGHT NIGHT (Poem, 2013)
Once upon a moonless night, Came my greatest fright. In bed with the silence of the night, My heart nearly leaped into flight. A shadow...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 28, 2021
- 1 min
RAINFALL…1-1-2013
Staring through the windowpane, Focused on crystalline pearls of rain, Euphoric, relaxed, in no pain, Just floating freely, no chain. Now...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 28, 2021
- 2 min
A BRAVE SOLDIER DIED TODAY
He was still tall and slim And his hair was thinning fast, And he sat around the table, Telling stories of the past. Of a war that he...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 21, 2021
- 2 min
CALL OF THE SEA (poem 6-25-78)
In days of yore, close to the shore, A comely, green-eyed maiden did await, With anxious smile that could beguile, The gods and goddesses...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 21, 2021
- 1 min
BEAST (poem 5-5-78)
There is a brutal beast inside. I wish it was not there. Against my will it does reside, Unwanted, but it doesn’t care. Behind that fake...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 21, 2021
- 1 min
WHY? (poem 4-12-73)
Through the window shone the sun, The day was warm and bright. It seemed a day for hope and fun, A joyful, verdant, summer sight. He...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 21, 2021
- 1 min
THE FOG…8-24-72
The fog is rolling in, An ethereal blanket of gloom, Like a sheet pulled over a corpse, To seal its final doom. The fog keeps rolling in,...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 21, 2021
- 1 min
NON-VIOLENCE (poem 1-26-71)
If old man violence Would take a rest, To stop to suckle Upon a breast, The world might pass The “Human Test,” And those most crass Might...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 21, 2021
- 1 min
GAMBLER AND WISHING WELL (poem 5-8-70)
Come gather around the well. Come gather around the well, I have a story to tell, About a man who dropped a quarter Into this black, deep...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 18, 2021
- 1 min
Soldier Ghost poem
Ghosts noisily roam In my mental zone. Ghosts of those slayed For wrongs they played In a time long gone In a war long done Where...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 15, 2021
- 1 min
Advice (poem, 1973)
Voices advised me where to go, While fingers pointed here and there. My head spun from the echo. I listened, looked, but went nowhere....
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