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A warm meal

A warm conversation

A warm heart

A warm blanket

Soft cat snuggles

Wet dog nose bumps

A mother's supporting comfort

A father's tight embrace

A familiar bed

A full refrigerator

Pile of shoes at the door

Togetherness once more

Poem 21-065z

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Illinois

           Illinois

Boyhood home of Illinois

Contrasts starkly with edge of

Great American Desert

Now call home

Memories resuscitated with Cardinal's call

Vivid red set against
Deep green of
Large maple leaves

Childhood awakens

Faintest of memories
As experience anew
Small hometown not home anymore

Lush green Summer of Land of Lincoln

Contrasts crisp brown of home
As prairie of Nebraska wilts
Under brutal heat

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet. (17-206B)

Chatham

          Chatham

No longer my home

Feels foreign and cluttered

Like surreal movie set

That I once lived here

Boyhood memories

Long cleared of debris

Past gives way

New built in old places

Trains go by

Rickety Amtrak

Plies the rails

Goes so fast

Space of grandpa's garden

Gave way twenty years ago

Apartments planted in soil

Different green to grow

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet. (16-286C)