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Introspective Sea Change
Same within.Introspection of Sea Change

08/06/2016
Lemuel Griffiths
aka
Lem Gunn




Fiercest of battles above my head,
Same within.
 
Blue battling the grey,
'Never ending turmoil throughout time.

''I coulda' saved her, 
Kept...

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Categories: lem, betrayal, hope, humorous, lost
Form: Narrative



Premium Member These Two Old Pups
These two old pups are near and dear;
I’ve kept them both throughout the years.
Lyra’s brindle, still cheetah-fast;
Lemony’s best years, in the past.
The thought of losing...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lem, dog, love,
Form: Rondeau
A Right To Swear
A Right To Swear

by 
Lem Griffiths

July, 2016.


Young gulls - love., 
How that fickle wind blows,
Soaring, dive bombing., 
As their fancy takes, not a 'blue sky'...

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Categories: lem, anger, bird, farewell, father
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Lost In the Snow
Let me tell you a story, a story of woe:
a tale of a pup who got lost in the snow.
Daughter Laura, our eldest, came up...

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Categories: lem, dog,
Form: Narrative
Beasley and I
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Beasley and I

Lem Griffiths

July, 2016


Henrietta D. something,
Never did mind him on top 'her,
'Least she never said, t'other, anyhow .
Beasley's my friend.., 
Comes and goes his...

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Categories: lem, friendship,
Form: Narrative



The Love Cup Northern Star
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The Love Cup, Northern Stars.

by 

Lem Griffiths

September, 2,016


Dash it.., 
Dash it all says I.., 
Through bars - I espy.
Their 'eaven, their night sky.

Well.., dash it.,...

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Categories: lem, lost love, peace, sorrow,
Form: Narrative
Tidying Love All Up
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Tidying Love All Up
by Lem Griffiths
July, 2016

Carefully, I asked, 
'What's with all the bleach in the pan?
All the week?'
She was the newly appointed Assistant Land...

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Categories: lem, funny, lost love,
Form: Narrative
I Like Cake
Lem-me get a taste a za'
Scrumbcious cake
O..
Dear Mattie

Legs ain't takin' 
No mo'e-ye weight
za'-c's' y'like
some-a'-za' cake

O..Mattie

Now te-me wada-Do
When ye'-gatz daz Blue
Please,O..
Dear Mattie Dont go

Dont leave to...

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Categories: lem, lost love, love
Form: Blank verse
Jack Daniel
Jasper Newton Daniel was born in 1850.
He hailed from a small town called Lynchburg in Tennessee.
Jack was born on a farm located in Moore County.
He...

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Categories: lem, dedication, history, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Am Elderly and Aint No Shame
I’m Elderly and Ain’t No Shame

I ‘m elderly and it ain’t no sin;
Ain’t no shame;
That I’m out on a lem;
America where you’ve been;
Won’t you come...

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Categories: lem, analogy, anxiety, appreciation, grandparents,
Form: Rhyme
Oneword.Com
Incandescentallaisticproblematicalabrationistical.

Dictionary entry number one:

incandescentallaisticproblematicalabrationistical

sounds like:

en-can-dee-scent-alley-is-tic-pr_ob-lem-attic-all-a-bray-shun-is-tickle.

eye was searching eye was looking to impress my emporess 

my emporess is not easily impressed she is much smarter

than the...

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Categories: lem, children, funny, imagination, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Control of All Living Breath -Job 12: 10
Ever since earthly life began its cycle
man has thought they were in control
anything was achievable no matter what
so thought the human mind but they stole

They...

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Categories: lem, bible, god, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ion I
An effervescent ever-pheasant's
   odyssey really ought to see
   my grain's migraine
      and Lem 'n Ma rang...

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Categories: lem, goodbye, humorous, word play,
Form: Rhyme
The Love Cup, Northern Star
The Love Cup, Northern Star.
by 
Lem Griffiths

Dash it.., 
Dash it all says I.., 
Through bars - I espy.
Their 'eaven, their night sky.

Well.., dash it., 
Let...

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Categories: lem, angst, class, courage, death,
Form: Ode

Book: Reflection on the Important Things