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billsheehan1
- Apr 3, 2021
- 13 min
UNEXPECTED GRACE 3-3-2021
I wake up each morning wondering what unexpected occurrences will confront me. Naturally, I hope for the best, but ‘best’ has its...
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billsheehan1
- Apr 3, 2021
- 10 min
EVERYTHING ENDS 3-14-2021
Everything ends. Family, other relatives, friends, colleagues, acquaintances, and you are all temporary. Everything your five senses can...
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billsheehan1
- Apr 3, 2021
- 5 min
EXHAUSTED 3-30-2021
Once in a while I feel as if a tsunami is forming at a great distance, getting closer every day, and it’s focused on me. I don’t know its...
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billsheehan1
- Apr 3, 2021
- 8 min
BEN IN FOURTH GRADE 3-28-2021
Nova Central School Nova, NY 14414 Nov. 7, 20__ Dear Mr. and Mrs. Arnold, I am writing to you with concern for your son, Ben. I know that...
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billsheehan1
- Apr 3, 2021
- 18 min
THE WOOD CARVER 3-5-2021
It’s not true that wood carvers have a chip on their shoulder. Out of all the wood carving clubs wood carvers may be very boring people...
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billsheehan1
- Apr 3, 2021
- 13 min
JUSTICE 3-16-2021
I was far too young to die. Actually I was murdered. But when you get murdered at my young age of thirty-one, your vengeful spirit goes...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 28, 2021
- 1 min
RAIN (poem, 6-28-99)
It filters the mental dust, confusion, stress. Its tap, tapping, drip, dripping wet melody Soothes me, encapsulates me in a liquid Coat...
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billsheehan1
- Feb 28, 2021
- 2 min
WHEN (poem, 8-16-78)
When you command both love and hate, And have in mind when each is due, Yet not let hate consume your love, Then friend and foe shall...
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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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