Best Galveston Poems

Licky butt, oh, licky butt
Lick your bum my lovely puppy
Gonna feed you a dead guppy
It's belly up
So feed it to the pup....

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The sun, an igneous ball, is falling down the sea.
 The wave is locked, and a new night is seen.
The fishing boat heads to open...

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Riley Ann Sawyer

A little Angel she was. She came to Earth one day
her stay here was short. instead of heaven - she 
found Hell. It...

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Ike The Terrible

Ike; You had gone to many places and than you came
to Texas. You were not invited, but you decided to come
anyway. A lot...

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Dear Toni,

I saw you on The Daily Show
the other day
having your way
with Trevor,
or was it the other way around?
Not sure.

I'm also not sure where we...

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Ava - I spoke to your half sister today.  
She says it’s warm in Albuquerque.  She tells you hello 
and to please wish...

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(Taking headlines from October 1964,
the poem revisits our shared experience ...)

Monday 5: Fifty-Four East Germans Tunnel to Freedom

Back then, it was not in doubt,
(Richard Burton...

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Jubilation in the city of Galveston ensued when 

Union soldiers brought to the enslaved

News of an

Emancipation that had been proclaimed by Lincoln

Two whole years before...

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There was a lady from Galveston Bay
A great little poet I heard someone say
An Opal Sunflower
With the gift of word power
And a style that is...

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"He made a difference."

Gramps, my mother's father, 
Dave Luke -- my grandfather, 
a tall unlettered white (decidedly white) 
Louisiana man -- was born August 1888....

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Gun Play in the Meat Locker 

At the bottom in the Mexican bay rests a 22 calibre pistol,
it is in a box and the box...

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(This piece is dedicated to those innocent youths gunned down inside institutes of learning, by guns improperly regulated, and utilized by cold, heartless entities who...

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On a cool winter night spent under the stars,
 the wind has calmed down some

I lay back and trace distant 
satellites across the sky

My mind...

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Wish I was somewhere else today
I ain't partic'lar where
Maybe upon a mountain top
Breathin' that cool blue air

Or I could fish a mountain stream
Catch me a...

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I went to Galveston one time
In the Spring of the year
I was just a cowboy back then
An' had no thought of fear

I'd never seen the...

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