Best Humphrey Poems

The"tail" I have to tell, starts off really sad.
My sweet doggie Murphy died and my heart, it hurt so bad.
Until one day in early spring,...

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Translation of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private 5 Homage to Humphrey Jennings by T. Wignesan

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SIR HUMPHREY DAVY
By James Edward Lee Sr.

Abominated gravy
He lived in the odium,
of having discovered sodium

12/09/17...

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The Scots, by God,
They drove them out,
With a single Yorkie
At their heels a' yappin'
The Hobyahs tried to fly
Their arms they were a flappin'

Some managed to...

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Film Noir

By the lampost at night
with the pale moon shining bright
but obscured by the fog
I saw her in the harbor
standing where my boat lay moored
but...

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I remember in kindergarten,
I and a few friends were put on the yellow light,
the light of shame, for playing tic-tac-toe on the Spanish room tables.
oh...

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This morning's sidewalk is cold and gray,
traffic sparse.
Coffee awaits, if my secretary remembers.
My head circulating thoughts from a case,
I reluctantly took on yesterday.
I'm usually more...

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Everybody got a Hollywood life story
to tell
More meat on the bone
give juicier bites 
to sell
Nobody ever turns in a tarnished silver screenplay
Those warts and mistakes
get...

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The Trace of My Rose

Lie down my precious, close your eyes
Relax yourself, get ready for a sensuous surprise
Its stem is long, free of all thorns
Its...

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Errol Flynn a swashbuckler
he was also a wrangler

Jack Webb loved LA
gave us Joe Friday

Kevin Bacon brought us footloose
many years after Mother Goose

Humphrey Bogart had many...

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Echoes heard from Mars to Pluto
Sound the alarm on alien radio
Jupiter cried, cause Saturn's ring was lost
"Repeat" no matter the cost!
Heathcare for all, pay it...

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we are one people!
earth belongs to all people!
equal rights for all!


Tribute to Hubert Humphrey, from my great State of Minnesota....I shook his hand once.
(my 350th...

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 I   DON’T  KNOW

So what’s wrong with saying “I don’t know”
When your poem is good,   and feels just so?
A technical...

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A wingding Aussie will be defined as any single person thru to a minority group determined  to be making a complaint containing false information...

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Driver Leon Humphrey
Upset at his traffic ticket
Demanded a trial by combat
Said the DMV could pick it
Samuair sword or Ginzu knife
Or even a heavy hammer
Despite Humphrey's...

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We ran deep into the woods 
 from the other side of the wire
 an enemy came with me. 
Stripping our uniforms bare 
we hid...

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The Price Of Missing You


Thinking of you
I’m missing you
I can call you
But I can’t hold you
Distance has denied me 
The pleasure of kissing you 
The...

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Your Eyes

Your eyes
Your eyes
As I look inside
I smile at your prize
The eyes are the windows to the soul
But as an added bonus
Your eyes are the...

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My great-grandfather had amassed extensive knowledge.
If anyone knew politics, he was the man.
He was a graduate of an Ivy League college.
He was a three-time supporter...

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Oh! wind those windows down!
Gitchigumi, race your breath through my soul!

fill me with the strength your sons
Hubert and Walter gave us!

Oh Highway 61...bring me to...

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History museums
Never seem to let me down,
No matter what the country
Or the city or the town.

From homes and music of the past
To cars and toys...

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Will Stop Poetry Writing

Sometimes I will stop poetry writing
Another thing may seem more inviting
After much further review and scrutiny
Read about movie called "Caine Mutiny."

Actually, really...

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I wake from a bad dream 
Hey there new man
That’s what they said to me
Hey there how’s it been lately?
I stand, look and see

Elvis, Martin...

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I once met a monkey,
the monkeys name was Humphrey.
Humphrey did confront me,
he did it bold and bluntly.
What happend next I haven't a clue.... the grumpy...

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