Best Grantham Poems

There is no African American history,
or Native American history,
or Irish American history,
or Italian American history,
or German American history,
or Chinese American history,
or Hispanic American history,
or White American history...

There is only American History,
--- and Morgan Freeman got it right!

(Grantham New Hampshire-February, 2017)...

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Keep your words close
 —but silence closer

(Grantham New Hampshire: July, 2016)...

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It should be really easy
To get to Grantham right on time
Unless, that is, your Sat Nav
Is as troublesome as mine

I have the postcode ready
And I’m sure I’ve got it right
But my Sat Nav seems to be convinced
It’s on The Isle of Wight!

Now I quite like...

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Oftentimes, what doesn’t get said,
—makes the loudest noise

(Grantham New Hampshire: January, 2013)...

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Growing simpler with
   each passing year

The leaves turn
    and my mind releases

Freeing what it’s taken 
     a lifetime to acquire

Freeing what only this moment
     can understand

(Grantham New Hampshire January, 2012)...

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The mold has broken,
our future uncast

The best of remembrance,
severed in half

(Train From Grantham: July, 2016)...

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We Don’t Serve Cheeseburgers at Downton

By Elton Camp

Mrs. Patmore strongly protested
When a cheeseburger was requested

With a sneer, the cook did say
“That guest is from the USA.”

“While for an American it’s good enough,
My kitchen would be defiled by such stuff.”

“Thus, such lowly fare I’ll never serve.
From...

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Straddling the candle,
  too close to the flame

A fiery benediction,
 —a smoldering refrain

(Grantham New Hampshire: February, 2017)...

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There is no… 
 African American history,
 Native American history,
 Irish American history,
 Italian American history,
 German American history,
 Chinese American history,
 Hispanic American history,
 or White American history

There is only American History
—and Morgan Freeman got it right!

(Grantham New Hampshire-February, 2017)...

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CONSTANT CYCLE

Through the window my soul has gone into that light and glory of new born day. Indeed again I have ascended death. To what duty is owed within myself as some payment for this life. 
Through darkness searching that I might find they who...

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Growing simpler with
                         each passing year

               ...

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Your page now short on substance,
  yet colorful the rhyme

The words used in abundance,
  where lesser might define

Intention slave to beauty,
  all meaning zero sum

Pageantry lost in the wind,
 —your blood left still to run

(Grantham New Hampshire: February, 2017)...

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I happen to be cast a
  different way

Molten like igneous
  stone

I live on the boundary,
  where others won’t play

At the edge of the scary
  unknown

The chess board on fire,
  as the Russian sage smiles

With the questions the same,
  only...

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Do you play inside the Corn Flakes,
  or are corn stalks more you game

Is that Hersey Bar the answer,
  or the cocoa or cocaine

Do you clerk for someone’s feelings,
  inspiration all be damned,

Your legacy an afterthought,
 —of another’s contraband

(Grantham New Hampshire: February,...

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Keep your words close
 —but silence closer

(Grantham New Hampshire: July, 2016)...

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