Best Lehman Poems

Love in a beach hut came my way,
and, a bit cramped, we lay
until the moon rose over
Kettle's Bay.

Polly, the maid, came opportunely,
to bring us tea
and the three
of us sat happily.

Love out of a beach hut came my way,
and Polly came half-way through
with tea
and that's when...

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I was bored in Manhattan that day
So decided to pay for a lay
He was handsome and young
And was VERY well hung
I walked like John Wayne all of the day

Thanks to James Fraser's Bored In Manhattan poem for the inspiration!

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One day not long past our economy faltered
And wouldn’t improve if our course were unaltered.

'Cause we buy stuff at Wal-Mart (where things are dirt cheap)
'Cause they buy from China (treats workers like sheep

(So farmers left farms and moved to the city.
And hoped for life better...

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Hungary people can’t hold a grudge
They judged that it would never budge
Walled off by a dam
This heavy metal jam
Raspberry sludge was factored fudge


Author's note: Well, Stanley--it's another fine mess you've gotten me into.  It all goes to 
show how impossible it is to move...

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The wife had a problem with me,
h o t  m e s s  to the hundredth degree,
thinks she can do better,
I’ll go out and let her!
Not my fault I cleared the pantry!

I ended up on the darn couch,
pinched nerve in my back from...

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Lotte Lehmann  (Sentanka)

Charlotte Lehmann
Die große Opernsängerin
Sie schrieb und filmte

Ihr Ruhm bleibt unvergessen
Und bot den Nazis die Stirn



Charlotte Lehmann
The great opera singer
She wrote and filmed

Her fame will always be remembered
And she defied the Nazis 



Charlotte Lehmann
La gran vocalista de ópera
Ella escribió y filmó

Su fama siempre...

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I'm dreaming of a quiet Christmas ,
Just like the ones , I'll never know 
With no children screechin
Or pastor preachin
Of where all sinners surely go .....
I'm dreaming of a quiet Christmas
With every cheque , Im tryin' to write .
But , then Lehman Sisters took flight...

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If God is something that you think, 
It is only a process that you drink;
Wittgenstein's answer of yes and no,
Does only referential justification show.

Societal concepts are never jokes,
But at other people make pokes;
They're straight with direct meaning,
So have an implied, absolute feeling.

David Lehman said Wittgenstein,...

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The Irritating Fly

      The irritating fly zoomed round the room
      Not stopping anywhere as I planned its doom.
      It flew up and down, and buzzed round and round,
  ...

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When Jesus, the Christ, embraced me as a lad 
Whispered in my ear God’s unconditional love abides 
And lives inside the deepest recesses of my heart 
Where no one can snatch it away, wound, or destroy it 
I became a passionate follower, knowing His love...

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A decade of growth and decadent boom 
People didn't mention the debt elephant in the room
It was the charge of the bull
Many pockets were full
The search for a higher return was the motivational pull. 

But whilst stocks and shares rocked and flared
Investors held their breath in shock...

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I’m walking my tiger home! 
So what!
Wow! 
That’s the strangest thing,
I’ve ever heard!
You just might say!
Well! Mary had a little lamb,	
And you had no problem with that!
She even took it to school one day,
That made the children laugh and play,
History! Made that nursery rhyme, 
I...

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i miss the softness of her touch

cut short by Lehman brothers’ harsh

   collapse

i miss kindness of time before the crash

economy in relative peace

living off fumes of postwar boom

before post-traumatic stress of recession-plagued world

robbed me of ability to fulfill my dreams

and fully reveal my...

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My Briefs Lorraine

Fecal stains on my briefs
they must be washed 
but to my dismay
they’ve gone away
I left them in a drunken stupor
on the floor by the pooper
and now they’re nowhere to be found

It’s not that I should have a care
I have many other briefs to...

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P S ITS POETRY WRITE ON WRITE ON CONGRATS TO MY FELLOW POETRY SOUPERS PART 10
 Many thanks to you selected poets;
 Of sharing your whispers from God, tho you didn’t know it;
 Each letters and each word; Reads so very dear and well; Joys...

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