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On the Love For God
What I'm about to write will make no sense to those who have a materialistic worldview: that only matter exists, no mind, no soul, no...

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Categories: greene, allusion, appreciation, atheist, god,
Form: Prose



Premium Member The Heart Carved On the Tree
There was a lady that I once knew
She met her love she felt was true
He carved their initials into a tree
As she leaned closely on...

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Categories: greene, funny, lovebody,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Breaking News
We have some breaking news, straight from the U.S.A.,
her citizens had a meeting and here’s what they had to say.
We’ll send old Joe to the...

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Categories: greene, humorous, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Forgotten Times
Momma's in the kitchen frying chicken
Daddy's got the game on the old TV
Two brother's playing and fighting in the parlor
It's just the way things used...

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Categories: greene, childhood, family, happiness, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Sixties Songs of Tragedy
A best-selling song was recorded by Mark Dinning.
In a string of sad songs, this was just the beginning.
In 1960, the lyrics conveyed teary eyes.
“Teen Angel”...

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Categories: greene, history, musicsong, sad, song,
Form: Rhyme



Washington's Miracle, Part Ii
...It also left their powder pretty wet,
but their was something command had foreseen,
and they brought extra artillery guns,
less vulnerable to the moisture’s sheen.

Washington hoped they’d...

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Categories: greene, america, conflict, courage, history,
Form: Epic
The Steel Curtain
Pittsburgh Steelers had
Mean Joe Greene and Jack Lambert
in the Seventies...

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Categories: greene, football, nostalgia,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member My Cowboys
Gene Autry, Hopalong 
And Tim McCoy
Waved goodby to me 
As off into the sunset they go

Wild Bil Elliott, The Lone Ranger 
And Tonto were there
As...

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Categories: greene, adventure, happiness, life, night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member An Electric Rub Board
An Electric Rub Board?
By
Tom Wright

There was a young man named Joe Greene,
Who promised his wife a new washing machine.
It was called a Rub Board,
And had...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: greene, funny,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Grit and Guts On the Gridiron - 2
Pittsburgh, hammertown, Chuck Knoll and his boys
established the best Superbowl Era dynasty
with the "Steel Curtain" defense and the "Blonde Bomber" Bradshaw,
a defense disciplined on shrapnel...

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Categories: greene, america, sports, war,
Form: Epic
Mean Joe and the Curtain
Mean Joe Greene number seventy-five
kept the Pittsburgh Steelers alive

was a solid wall on that frontline
and sacking the quarterback was fine

the Steel Curtain was solid back...

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Categories: greene, football,
Form: Couplet
Flight For Freedom
Four years ago today
9/11 rang in our ears
Our Nation still cries a river
Into a sea of tears

Patrick Driscoll 70, was retired
Jane Folger 73, retired as...

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Categories: greene, history, people, husband, wife,
Form: List
Ethan Frye
*Ethan T. Frye 
*Died at age 15.
*Place of death Grand junction,IA.
*Thurs. 3/19/2015.
*Place when died at NBA's Final.
*Cause of death when leaving got in car wreck...

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© Ethan Frye  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: greene, death, father, girlfriend, heaven,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member The Heat of the 70s
The house is empty, my husband is at work,
I am sitting with my dog just relaxing when
PBS television broadcasts a music special.
Oh all those Motown...

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© Lee Ramage  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: greene, happiness, music, house, husband,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Milder Side of the Wild Wild West
One night I dreamed I wandered, weary in a desert
until a clear blue water lake emerged ahead
midst the new pine landscape of my dream.
Four specks...

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Categories: greene, family, dream, dream,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things