Birthday Son Poems

Hey Dad!

Hey Dad! Is that you knocking at the door outside?
I'm excited to let you know how great was my first horse ride.
Mom was waiting...

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Now he speaks with words so clear,
His aims increase with every year.
He’s growing up with height and grace,
Yet, gives us all the same embrace.
The world...

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Got my last name, 
It’s Privislav until the day that I die. 
Glass full of pain, 
Paint thinner halves the days I have alive. 
Tomorrow...

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Some years ago a great man was born this week
He was my beautiful son
He had such a big heart that is hard to describe
I saw...

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Mother mother 
You are to me 
All things good that life can be 
This love of life 
You gave to me 
Then let me love...

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Daddy's specter plectrums mercilessly
Fraying my nerves raw
with oxidized guitar strings.
my thoughts relentlessly hemorrhage
onto clay vinyl grooves
s p i n n i n g
endless nights
of
suffocation.

a midnight...

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As you prepare for twenty-three,
We see the man you've come to be,
With so much grace and so much light,
You always soar to a greater height.
Throughout...

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I dreamt last night of my father.
He played on roller-skates, with
grandchildren, more likely great grandchildren,
yet to be born.

It was a family get together,
perhaps his birthday,...

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Ten years of life story…
have brought happiness, sometimes fading joy.
Catching a glimpse of the glory...
keep striving, my brave and resilient boy.

Your remarkable mind can take...

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Marina, Motherina, Baba, Mum!
Reflect upon what your life has become:
Born in Harbin to refugee Russians,
Tossed out by Mao, with mild repercussions.

Aussie girl, country girl, raised...

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        yeah
        okay
        ...

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When I became a mother,
On this date some years ago,
I understood how many things
I simply did not know.

But learning on the job is how
Most new...

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Promise me your hands will reach out
Resilient attachment starts in childhood
When the brain has colic outside the womb
A mother’s unconditional love soothes worries
When a birthday...

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In the cozy, dark chamber of my womb , you fought hard to breathe,
And we prayed.
Your safe passage out into this beautiful world a huge...

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The day you were born
went back to the hospital
where I was forewarned
a little bit into the night
your mother, I just told
to rest her sleepy head
as...

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