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John Michael Hill

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Brief Bio

I was born in Houston, TX in 1971. I have a twin sister and two great parents. Attended high school at San Marcos Military in San Marcos, TX and graduated in 1990. Went on to Baylor University and graduated in 1994 with a Finance and Entrepreneurial BBA (2 hours short of a Minor in Philosophy). I had worked for five summers in the securities business and decided that retail brokerage was in a period of transition and now have moved on to real estate. I currently work with CB Commercial Real Estate Group. I put together the industrial real estate market statistics on a quarterly basis as well as support the industrial brokers in a marketing type role.






Hours, days, years
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I cannot give up just yet
nor let the hours of ours forget
New days and kindest ways
another morning's haze.
Another bright blue spring
a cheerful phone to ring.
Unexpected flowers before a visit.
Love, enough to miss it.

I cannot give up just yet
nor let the days of ours forget
of every new teaching, a new thought
enough to find yours forgot.
The fall of summer into autumn.
A smile from top to bottom.
Bliss, to those that wish it,
and love, enough to miss it.

I cannot give up just yet
nor let our years forget
of every new chance - race,
a new antique to place.
Winter joy with mountains of snow,
Trust that you know.
A gift fair enough to kiss it,
and my love,
close enough to never miss it.


3/14/95
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A Valentine's gift won perfectly for you
And heart lifted heavenward is to ensue
Another years music of your eyes and voice
And whatever devout lovers give choice.
I ascribe the very nature of your words
And write new meaning as do the birds
To the sky or the stars yet as high as
I present myself to rely.
For fascination is to impassion the hour -
the minute - dressed in any fashion,
And the hour is you.
Color it with both hands for it is new
As are the meanings I pursue.
This lifelong day I proclaim, yours,
and name St. Valentine's Day the same.


Butterfly
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Fragile,
the length of one's life;
the shape of one's wing.
Air, the provider,
the extension of one's being,
and the taker
of the day.
Brought to polish rapid earth
a color or two
For the sake of you. (of those that can read)
Break, from your silky mass
as a reminder of abandoned past
Aloft in syncronicity.
Unknown and succinctly
a giver to guests of our kind;
fields signed
By a twelve thousandth
of every season cared.
But the end is tomorrow
to those bought by sorrow,
and the next is the field
large enough to build
an unadorned cocoon,
A break from the beautiful life.



Rosemary
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May I only dwell in the time
between that in which you
are awake and dreaming,
so sometimes I maybe remembered.
Tuck me away and sleep deeming
that I am eternal, night, thine, so
choose not a soul intertwine or
love daily, healing more a soul than kind.
I, being no more of a want
or thought, have gone and loved away.
Your eyes being open (and I closed)
will nightly shut as though fulfilled,
but the day has dozed.
Give me as I might hope
and fear a nightly illusion to appear
only at the languor of your mind
while I drift in and out
with love or without.


For I
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Oh, won't you forget my stature
For I have loved threefold
Search for me and hold me
For I could love again
Bury your eyes around me
For I should be looked to from the inside
My soul is empty in a lonely world
For I have no one to believe with
It is easy to reach into my heart
For I broke it many years ago
Sing to me your worries
For I will sing along
For you are not alone


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