Best Johns Poems

Where have all the John's gone ?
they all been murdered by the ones
Who have the right to bear arms
It was 1963 and I was walking home from school going home for lunch
While in Texas something was going to happen to us that would change the...

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My Saint John flow on
Through forest, marsh and town's spread
Tablecloth of stars

Conquistadors gone
The blue herons walk alone
In moonlight's silence

River and lone night
Memory is a wind's hope
Rustling swamps for gold

Let us keep our thoughts
In slow meandering lakes
The salt sea invites

Less Timucuan
Waken find us new remnants
In Ferdinand's...

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Sprouted from the depth and leapt for the height
Tremendous epoch-making in sight

Just like a raw gem that transforms on motion
Our imaginations are like the ocean
Her noble mind in noble thoughts we see
Now, see hordes of hospitality over the fee
Sons and daughters home-like honied  hive

Sweet...

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love,a slipper,a glove.the tea is sweet,little bo peep,keep your endeavors,i here,forever.to 
sheer a sheep,little bo peep.indeed keep your false friend until the end.the mend is soft and 
complete with tune,loves a sand dune and i lack a broom.some soon rather than later,i,the 
mouth of an...

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days and nights of loosen over,whens my four leaf clover gonna come over?
when?i get to spin to dont i?crem de la crem is beyonce knowles and all those 
schols,so who cares?in the air is where i gery,the berry b,humble me with a 
jumbletron,its phonic and...

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Went to pick a bone all I found was fossils               															 Lost within Smithsonian's flood colossal 	  															  A giant petrified dodo 																		  Just a rendering who knew																	Excretions...

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When long johns get religion
And you’re fallin’ out the door—
And bowels just move a smidgeon
When they need to move much more—

Then ol’ north winds come knockin’
And it’s then that you sure know—
If relief don’t come callin’
That you’ll sure enough dern blow!

Then your stomach do start...

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AN OLD BUILDING BY THE ST. JOHNS

Prose and fingers lingering to the North arise!
On this day 25 degrees North of the Sun
Venus and the moon shall collide and dance
Chance!

The St. Johns and a ripple to the retaining nipple
Look!
Abandoned worn jewel on a starved stepped slab
Timeless...

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The clothesline hung, low, and limp.
Raucous, red, long johns 
and worn, white, blue jeans
pinned like butterflies in a box;
dangled bodiless.

The neighbors all envied Mom’s skill.
Nobodies tidy whities were brighter.
The pulley wheel whined and clanked
against back porch clapboards
when a stiff wind blew through.

And, the state of...

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the curve of common beauty
      how it catches the eye
creates 
  a reflection
    captures
  yet sets you free

           convinces it's all within grasp
  ...

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comprehension lingers just outside the frame
          I'm conscious I linger just inside

meaning cannot be construed 
   by looking at the linear
             piece...

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John swore the week of Lent he would abstain,
from foods that upset his digestion;
from all sugars, junk foods and refined grains,
anything causing his indigestion.
John adhered to his doctor’s suggestions.
Though it was quite hard for him to comply
John made the effort, he really did try.
He lost...

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still in the breeze
*burnt in the heart
a union flag...

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Such a beautiful building
Airy and spacy and light
Just off Hesse Road, a place,
For that occasion, just right.
One of the trawlermens’ churches
A community now scattered and gone
But thanks to these old photos
It's memory will live on and on.

Just a visitor from the Social
For years I wandered...

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(Dedicated to Stratford Johns who died January 29, 2002.)

His name was Stratford Johns.
I'm sorry to say that he's gone.
He starred in an episode of Doctor Who.
This great thespian left the world in 2002.
The episode he starred in was Four to Doomsday.
Doctor Who fans grieved when...

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