Heavenly Music
Instead of all of them still yelling EUREKA
What they ended up with was TOPEKA
Kansas where banjoes they will strum
And State Capital will never become.
Would it to many make much sense?
If an Arabian actually lived in Laurence
On horse thinking he was hot to trot
With him all the women he brought.
While State of Kansas you were touring
Was worst thing you could be enduring
They said go ahead and get out of DODGE
Like there ain't no room at any lodge.
Suppose purple was color we all wore
Went to heaven and not here anymore
Would God always allow us to be musical
And if so should we bring an acoustical?
James Thesarious Hilarious Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet
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October Georgia faintly whispers...
Whistling gaps between the autumn days
She plucks the blues in windy back wood fiddles
Hums hymns of Evergreens across the open space
And around the rustic corners Blackbird banjoes play
Echo callings that cannot wake
Towns and sleepy hollows forgotten
Or shake the fields off of southern snow
The bleeding heart of silent cotton
Confederate clouds sky beards lazily wave
Soothing horizons and the ears of God’s children
Preaching sounds that lead from Sabbath churches
Fruit sweeter than the sweetest Dixie peaches
October Georgia faintly whispers
A simpler and easy life downhome tradition
And all can feel it beneath their bones
The tickle of her southern music
Banjoes picked through Kentucky blue
grass twenty-two inches long
awaiting a gurgle of life
blood, and you appeared at sunset.
Eighty-two years from a body
lasting is my love for you every
day broke on the day I became
life tears me up after your
death brings me here shattered
breath I succor from fettered
souls who watch me watch
you had a birthday today.
I grieve and curse your card
Grandpa.
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