Tag Archives: Hayden

if you stay 

Posted on November 24, 2024 by whimsygizmo

(rewinding time, for Hay)  , we’ll sit and talk awhile.i can show you the moon. we’ll find your smile.  your dad can breathe,your mom won’t grieve.  our aching hearts will go away.  but onlyif you’ll stay.  ::PAD, day 24.

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Poem for the Yellow Brick Road

Posted on November 16, 2024 by whimsygizmo

We’re off             {to see}  if that guy behind the curtain’s got a place for you and me, if all these cobbled sorrows are worth it in the end,if there’s a scattered spell to bend and tilt that tornado just a little farther east.  Hey, we’ve got the brains    the … Continue reading →

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Waiting behind, with the 99. 

Posted on November 11, 2024 by whimsygizmo

They say sorry for your loss as if we’ve misplaced – what? some keys             (a coin? a sheep?) – as if a brisk and thorough               searchcould bring you back.  As if we are not still here  finding ourselves       both clad   and clacked          in black.  ::Written for Hayden, and the … Continue reading →

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Yellow Camo T-shirts for Camp 

Posted on November 2, 2024 by whimsygizmo

The year you both got assigned the dreaded Yellow Team, I got online immediately and found yellow camouflage t-shirts; ordered double – some for our Zack and some for you, Hay.   Today, I look at that pic and I wish you could have found a … Continue reading →

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After.

Posted on November 1, 2024 by whimsygizmo

So, before you go was there something I could have said to make your heart beat better? – Lewis Capaldi (for Hayden) :: You were in my carpool my heart my home from kindergarten and before,right at the center of camp chaos and all boy cacophony. My boy’s … Continue reading →

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