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How to erase history!

Seasons of my life

Why Do We Stand?

I'll Always Be There!

I Feel Just Like a Baby!



That's Life!

That's Life!

War is Hell

Oh! Where did it all go?

Untitled

Disrespect?

'OH! My,my,my!"

Warriors

Disrespect!

Beware!

Untitled

Forgive and Forget?

So Why Should I?

Fifty Years Later

All in a DAY

A Warrior's Soul

"Good Life"

"If"

My Only Son

GONE!

"American Pie"

War is Hell!

Daream Catcher

Time is a Thief!

Ode to T/Sgt. Glenn Wilson

Never To Late!

CHANGE

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Like the Old Lamp Lighter


On a dark moonless night
in May far from the electric
haze the light here and there
was only in the tail of fireflies.
Silent signals blinking off and
on from a small living thing...
saying:
"Here I am, your mate is on the wing...
come find me."

A one night stand...
a tiny miracle at hand,
and procreation to beat
the band.  

Thousands more...
in a Mason Jar with the
lid on tighter...
lit up like the flame of
the old Lamp Lighter.

Jackie R. Kays
Copyright...2004





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