Best Berkley Poems

From afternoon siesta nap
        with clear focus of mind
 in holey torn vest a barefoot child leapt -
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My soul understood Lynyrd Skynyrd
Like Ronnie I had monkeys to
Just simple boys chasing life’s joys
With our needles playing our blues

My soul understood Pink Floyd
For I...

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Wind-gathered winter leaves hide the worn 
Inscription; the birth, the death the epitaph 
On show for all who take this path 
To know Sir John...

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Nostalgic Nights.
The smell of gas in the vintage moped I drove an hour to buy, 
Driving down that small-town street at night,
Lit by the dim...

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In a little ultra Leftist bastion called Berkley
a congregation of American Libertarians came,
it was March 4th and proud patriots marched forth
in solidarity for America's freedoms,
celebrating...

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( Dedicated to my Sister Florence Grace
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“Progress Being”

The opportunity struck that I grew to find,
I took a risk and felt no urge to change my mind.
In the “now” to live my...

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Suddenly September reveals itself
steel grey clouds and dreary rain; 
it’s twelve o'clock, but the sun is hidden.
I lean against the damp deck railing
a Brown truck’s...

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To help you with your history class
These all happened in the past
February 4th to be exact
And you can take it all as fact

The year was...

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Their voices the same as I remember
Simon and Garfunkel and a simple guitar
Bringing the seventies immediately back to my mind
My hip hugger bell bottoms and...

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Our tribute to the eighteen year old boys who were sent to Viet Nam
Was to be chill, chillin, and chillax’in as a tribute to those...

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Sixty-eight! What the heck. I look in the mirror and see another me.
I am twelve inside. Can’t anyone else see? 
My sense of humor is...

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It was in the year 2040,
in Vienna was where it all began,
folks were looking at the Lance on Longinus,
when they saw something they couldn’t understand,
on...

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They say they’re anti-fascists,
ANTIFA is their chosen name,
that they have to go fight Nazis,
on whom every bad thing they blame.
Though they’ve never described to me
who...

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I roll quickly away from my childhood cave
wanting more sun, music, dancing, delight in my life
no one follows me, glad I am gone

Berkley calls, and...

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