Best Lem Poems

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 her sane., 

Love is strange'' .., I told him.., concluded, 
The promenade train tooted, I repeated..,
His face didn't change.

I looked...

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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 brings a tear.

When daughter schooled quite far from here 
and had them crated, it was clear
they could not last, were...

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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' care -
O'er the chaos below-screeching of laughter,
They've earned the right to wail and cry and swear.

I looked down from my...

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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 to see us,
drove home in a Jeep (to rhyme, insert Prius).
She and her niece, my granddaughter Marion,
had come packing heat;...

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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 own ways - and whenever -
Rises and rests with the plough.

A few careless folk I seen point his way ..,...

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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 za'Land-a-Rainin' Sun
No,
No More...
Mattie


--Dedicated to Abeer R.I.P--
**Obese Is Not Owkay**...

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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., 
Let 'em have it., 
And the Northern-
Love cup-stars,
In a wisp of sudden sea fog., 
Like breath on a cold night..,...

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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 Lady.

'It brings it all up the whiter', she came back..
I mused..
Her ., my life and this warm and lifeless, weekday...

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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 was one of twelve children born to the family.
At an early age, he started a distillery.
Its product would be a...

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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 help me;
Churches are you praying;
Won’t you come help me;
People stop ignoring;
Children you have forgotten me;
I’m elderly and it ain’t no...

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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 rest and her beauty is mine to keep 

eye decided to invent a word to create a new word

a new...

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An effervescent ever-pheasant's
   odyssey really ought to see
   my grain's migraine
      and Lem 'n Ma rang pie

Of course, no bull's noble
   as Maple's may pull
   and gopher's go-fer
    ...

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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 were thieves of their own destiny
for only the creator has the true right
He was the sole architect of everything
holding in...

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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 'em have it., 
And the Northern-
Love cup-stars,
In a wisp of sudden sea fog., 
Like breath on a cold night.., 
I'm...

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Jerusalem
Bethlehem be
Amen whole world

Leopards are one,
the sun-gone now
dark bond till day.

Who won, who cares
who lost--there's no
answers, just sleep.

Multipy, naught
divide, but, add
begot - a world.

Our lives we must
lean on trust first,
a just new world.

... no need to start, pray and keep the faith....

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