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Open Poetry #38

Seven Days of May

poettothecars
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since 2006-02-10

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New Zealand

0 posted 2006-05-31 02:02 AM

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Seven Days of May
07 February 2006

Was it those empty promises
God did to her give
The day she gave birth
in less than seven days to live

An unmarked grave
desolate in ways of green
Her child gone to earth
of this beginning to dream

Many years no stone to mark
his small infant body her tears
This son oldest neither to shine
his brothers and sister
hearts of own in years

Each day she would mourn
her baby that never did grow
Of those anniversaries of birth
Her child forever young to know

“in memory of
John Keith Herbert”
(09 May 1952 - 14 May 1952)
the brother we never knew

© 2006 Christopher W Herbert (a New Zealand Poet)

a poet who cares

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

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displaced

1 posted 2006-05-31 02:12 AM

I had a brother just the same

sending

poettothecars
Senior Member

since 2006-02-10

Posts 1093
New Zealand

2 posted 2006-05-31 05:13 PM

always - Christopher

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JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

3 posted 2006-05-31 08:59 PM

Nice words for John...James

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