Best Graham Poems

Pickles Graham 1950

In the kitchen of a large sheep station in western Queensland
at Dirranbandi the boss lady was talking to the staff.
She was going to the ball that evening and was parading about,
in her evening wear, and scarf.

Finally it came, her turn to speak to...

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HANDMAIDEN OF MOON DANCING



fly me to stars in the thrill of one swan night
over a crescent arc to feel a flame of sighs,
teasing dreams so silent yet ever wild
and like a neon light, speak through your feet ,
your ribs twirling in drips of summer’s rage...

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A young North Carolina preacher named Billy Graham
Was filled with God's Words, and knew how to say 'em
All across the nation, many people came to salvation
Now heaven will be home to more than a few; how about you...

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Alexander Graham Bell
Fell under a deep spell
Got a call on the line
Believed it was the end of time.

10/3/12...

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Death can come so quickly
Like a thief in the night
But when the victim is so very young
It’s definitely not right.

John has left us way too soon.
We ask what does this mean?
He was in the prime of life
He was only seventeen!

It’s all part of the Master...

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I was born in the dusk of March.
There was a blizzard, I’m told.
But I don’t remember it that way.
So much for “out like a lamb,”
and at an ounce over ten pounds,
my mother likely shares the sentiment.
I was a baby elephant.

My formative years were electric blues...

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Alexander Graham
Rang a Bell when he said
Mr. Watson, come here
In 1876

With no earthly idea
Of what was to come
How we live today
With cell phones up our butts 

Wherever you turn
Someone's talking or texting
At every red light
While the green one is resting

And let's not forget
The in your...

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Sad news
whence somber church bells peal n pews
packed tight to pay homage to Graham Dixon while each mourner doth rues
in due time exits the sepulchral chamber in ones or twos.

an untimely death 
   tis like a whip that stings naked flesh
unimaginable by this...

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It is the third of June at San Quentin in 1955.
A death row inmate will soon no longer be alive.
She has been dubbed “Bloody Babs” by the local press.
Barbara Graham is a convicted murderess.
For killing widow Mabel Monohan, she will pay.
Barbara is sentenced to die...

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It was 1991 and Mission Scotland had finally arrived,
My dad's big dream of being choirmaster had come true,
At Murryfield his 1000 voice choir blasted Just As I Am,
In Celtic Park 800 sang When I Survey to the Lamb.

My dad had asked me on the up-run...

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Alexander Graham Bell.
    Tried to help people who could not hear well.
    When he amplified sound, of an electrical tone,
    He found he'd invented the first telephone.

    3/ 27 / 2019.

  ...

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They don't know him, but he knows them.
It's Revival time under the big tent of the sky
for the evangelicals among them (Billy's Boys),
and vespers for the liturgicals like me, prayer 
meeting for all, whether it's Wednesday or not.  
I used to wonder what this...

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Alexander Graham Bell
previously had to yell;
but then he invented the telephone,
which made it easier to chat when in a room on his own.

written 22nd March for Tania's clerihew contest...

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A GRAHAM EKPHRASIS
With elegy so tender
‘a word left at the ear’
Evocative in sentiment
so often brings a tear.
Narrative ,syntax & cadence
when read aloud‘As is moments’
from the mouth,with pace
 & tone  uniquely remembered,
a readers’ experience alone

Tribute to W, S Graham 1918-1986

Listen to me recite this ekphrasis...

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Billy Graham,
Servant of the Great I Am.
Preached the Gospel loud and bold,
And welcomed sinners into God's fold.


3/31/21
For Brian Strand's All Yours (Apr 2) contest...

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