Tag: family
member name: Robert - just a simple man - B.
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September 22, 2007 02:31 AM EDT --
How my dad lived his life:
My dad was a good man. There's few people in my small hometown that at one point or another he didn't help in some way. One night, I was probably fourteen . . .
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November 07, 2007 08:26 AM EST --
Cynthia Carey, one of my youngest aunts died yesterday. I know that is pretty insignificant to anyone outside of her circle of friends and our family. Everyone dies and we all lose people. . . .
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April 27, 2008 11:50 PM EDT --
Today, in my unsuccesful search for a clean conscience, I stumbled across the following passage in my reading. Unfortunately the passage is not attributed to anyone so I don't know who originally . . .
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January 22, 2009 11:25 PM EST --
THOUGHTS SENT TO A SPECIAL FRIEND
© Robert C Burnham
I don't really know him
But he's a father to a friend
You can see he really loves her
And . . .
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January 16, 2008 05:33 PM EST --
This one is dedicated to Susan, Crystal and my new Gather friend Marsha. Please Enjoy!
A Mother's Pride
© Robert Burnham
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January 22, 2008 12:22 AM EST --
For everyone who has feared life was passing them by and leaving them lonely. If you ask the Lord, and wait on the Lord, He can make agreat difference in your future for he can place someone very . . .
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March 29, 2008 08:43 PM EDT --
LINCOLN LOGS and TINKER TOYS
© Robert C Burnham
Lincoln Logs and Tinker Toys
Life was simpler then
All I wanted was to build a home
And with a wife . . .
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May 08, 2008 11:26 PM EDT --
MAMA WAS A TAXI
©Robert Burnham
Mama was a taxi
She drove us everywhere
She took us all to practices
And read a book while she waited there
Mama was a . . .
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April 07, 2009 04:30 PM EDT --
author's note: My first taste of death was long and grueling. It was my twelve year old nephew and it took twenty-eight days for his divorced parents to let him die . . .
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November 20, 2007 09:46 AM EST --
Recently someone gave to me a copy of "The Moral Compass" edited by William J Bennett as a companion to his previous compilation; "The Book of Virtues". Last night, within its . . .
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August 18, 2008 06:16 PM EDT --
Ms. Cora Spondent, (AP)
Mendocino County, CA
Somewhere high in the Sanhedrin Wilderness of Northern California, possibly above the snow . . .
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October 19, 2008 03:26 AM EDT --
A brother. Many of us have one. Some of us have several. Those of you who don't, have missed something special. I have two but this is the tale of the weird one, not my oldest . . .
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November 28, 2008 01:23 AM EST --
Christmas Rictameter
©2008 Robert C Burnham
Christmas
The Lord's Birthday
New snow cascading down
Mistletoe over the archway . . .
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April 17, 2009 04:34 PM EDT --
This morning as the sun was rising and the sky was turning a beautiful southern blue, I woke up at my cousin Marylou's place. . . .
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April 24, 2009 12:13 PM EDT --
Starring: Streaker (no intro needed, she's mine), American Pie (Streaker's biological mom, like the rest, she belongs to my brother), Montana (Streaker's biological sister), Shorty . . .
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September 30, 2009 10:07 PM EDT --
( my latest lyrics )
WHAT COULD I SAY?
©2009 Robert C Burnham
certified through USPS
My good friend Tommy called yesterday morn
Told me that . . .
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June 28, 2008 08:14 PM EDT --
Subtitle: Putting My Suicide on the Back Burner
© Robert Burnham, 2008, San Antonio
It is so hot. Over a hundred degrees every day now. . . .
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September 28, 2008 10:05 AM EDT --
I would like to thank the late Adelaide 'Sarah' Pollard for making the following possible. Her wonderful and famous hymn has been playing in my head throughout this week. At first . . .
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November 28, 2008 01:40 AM EST --
Christmas Day
©Robert C Burnham
There's tinsel on the tree that's sparkling
And the mistletoe is hung just fine
A 16-pound roaster's in . . .
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May 06, 2009 12:07 PM EDT --
THE ANECDOTE
Before you get to the poetry below I want to share an anecdote, reflecting on my mother's love. That is kind of a tall . . .
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