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Something's Changed

Saturday, 14 November 2009 17:25 The Mad Italian Poems - Fair
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Hey baby your man is here
The one that use to calm your fear
Your wry grin of him is now a sneer
What about him do you hate
That you used to love?

Once a touch gentle and caressing
is now like static and depressing
A voice that soothed, now grates
What about him do you hate
That you used to love?

Is his presence a reminder
of the dreams and visions finer
from a youger day and age
what you thought would come to be?
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Fighting the Storm

Sunday, 28 October 1990 18:21 The Mad Italian Poems - Fair
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Thoughts of you race through my mind,
     causing emotional waves.
I ride the swells of lonely kind,
and search the shore for caves.
But tossed about my thoughts do tumble,
     and cling to the raft I must.

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My Idea for a Poem

Tuesday, 28 April 1987 18:45 The Mad Italian Poems - Fair
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Poems are written to compliment a pretty face,
Full of wit, spice and fancy lace.
They sing out with meter and with rhyme,
How beautiful they are, forever in time.

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Graduation Poem

Saturday, 28 May 1988 18:53 The Mad Italian Poems - Fair
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Author's Note: I was one of four finalists to give the Student Commencement Address for my graduating class at UC Davis. With a time limit of 2 minutes, I decided to gamble and write the speech as a poem. I lost out to a guy that equated college to a buffet. I still think my poem was way better than his overused cliche - he's probably a motivational speaker now. :-)

I am brought here to you today
to talk to you, in my own way.
With, as you can hear, in meter and verse,
so sit back and enjoy, it could be much worse.

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