Best Orr Poems

Robin Hood, man in tights
Julius Caesar, might makes right
Alexander, called "the Great"
Sitting Bull, righteous hate
Robert the Bruce, Attila the Hun
Charlemagne, Napoleon

Hear the call of the alpha male!
Warriors leave a bloody trail.

George Washington, man on the spot
JFK and Camelot
Thomas Jefferson, renaissance man
Abe Lincoln took a stand
Ronald...

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To know just where your're going

You must know where you've been

You must respect the history

The things others have seen

It's true in all things relative

Be it music, sports or life

If you don't know where you came from

You're just dancing on a knife

Gherig, Ruth and Robinson

May, and...

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It must have been around 1967, a Christmas that 
feels like yesterday. Funny thing though, I don’t 
remember unwrapping it, I don’t remember jumping 
for joy, but I’m certain I did. With five children we 
didn’t think of asking Santa for more than one gift....

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You know that summertime is gone
		when a chill is in the air
		when snow is in the forecast
		and hockey sticks appear
		when kids with toques and earmuffs
		show up on every street
		stick-handling wayward tennis balls
		on tar and on concrete
		when flags of northern nations 
		unfurl on jacket backs
		with favored...

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The Hush of Christmas Past


It came more slowly then.
After Thanksgiving
the lights and decorations
started showing up.
The excitement started to build.
Santa showed up at the
department store,  The
ads in the newspapers
were larger, some even
in color.  There was talk of
“the list”, and “naughty or nice”.
It was agonizing...

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The planet doesn't need more successful people
it needs peacemakers, healers, restorers,
storytellers and lovers of every kind
It needs people who live well in their places
people of moral courage willing to join the fight 
to make the world, habitable and humane
Qualities that have little to do with...

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I saw a teenager on the 42 bus, 
An older teenager, tall and thin, 
He boarded a few stops after me, 
And i thought i knew his journey in. 

He looked like a CS student, 
As i had been in my older teens, 
Or at...

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There once was a boy who didn't know what he wanted to do when he grew up

The taller he grew
The more he wondered what to do

People would ask "what do you want to do, or who do you want to be?"

This little boy just never...

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They, born of rich blood 
are as humble as alley cats 
Royal patriots of the most Sacred Order 
they are Feline's from the 
Golden Temple Of Orr:  
They are always ready to be at your service  
They belong to the Sacred Meow Society...

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In Chicago, Mayor RICHARD J ruled the roost DALEY for 21 years,
  Til he breathed his last, giving way to the 'next sir:'  
  A pol named MICHAEL, who was dull and B'LAND-ICk!
When a snowstorm paved the way for a female successor.

'Hurricane...

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"As darkness fades with morning light
I feel your presence though not plain in site.
It was the same everyday
Growing
Surrounded by love ,
With touch and soft words , all that you'd say.
Two little faces, two hearts you held tight 
We BOTH were your world 
A bond created...

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Each and every junction of a big city were blooding
Along with the relatives in dirty dark cabins
There was no age limit for the melancholic sobbing
Calling their lost friends, parents and cousins

They had lost  their sleep-in-calm
Those innocent people were in coral
Fathers with fearless hearts were...

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"Guarded and cautious ,
Like hiding the key.
The front stays erected ,
for anyone to see.
The posts , the prods, and banter,
are just to keep worry at bay. 
They're the one with the smile, not letting on each day.
The one with the help,
a shoulder or good deeds.
It's...

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Eye to eye
Thoughts were expressed within
Eye to eye
Many imprompto words expressed
Like a warm water pressed
Beneath the sea
Stretch the conversation tea
And found a disaster
Within the eye faster
Age was the barrier
Orr a thought was the warrior
But like a mirror
Its peirced the eye err
Like red blood appears
And real...

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Hello, this is beyond the, the voicemail.
This is the brick corner and ribbon road.
Goodbye, bygone, this is no real detail.

This is falsetto time and lost signal,
miles away, minutes long, and God’s load.
Hello, this is beyond the, the voicemail.

This is the neurotransmitter that failed,
forced friction burning...

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