Ted Sheridan Poems

They are the blind who see, they are the deaf who hear and the mute who speak
They are the disadvantaged, the disabled and the challenged
They feel everything but remain unsure of what it is they have touched
They seek God but find evil in practically everything he created
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The trumpet lilies are silent with sadness
As the many weeping widows
With their folded flags
Leave red roses
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Child of mine
Please never be afraid to fear
Fear the next book if you will
The next page or the last word
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As a young boy of seven
My father who was an ex Marine
Took me aside and told me the facts of life
He thought I should know for my own protection
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Her life had always been one in which a door would close
And another door or two would open...
Today she awoke and sighed with defeated weakness....
Pale and mortally exhausted by her diseased beliefs
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If you never dive beneath the waters surface
You will never know what it was
That pulled you under
Take that deep breath and fill your lungs
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A man ran into a liberal tree on his way to cast his vote
before the polls closed. Reportedly his car claimed and accepted
all liability for the accident and wished to incur the cost of the
minimum damages to the municipal property, but the tree
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I know all too well that you try to push me away;
you always have and you always will. It is some kind
of insecurity issue you have, to see if I will leave
or let you go….and I know that you truly do, dislike yourself;
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It is the Fall here in America
The squirrels are all busy
Burying their ACORNS for Obama….
But informed Americans know
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Her closed eyes whispered to me
In that Cajun French accent
She had perfected; as her
Rose petal lips wet my appetite,
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