Best Raleigh Poems

REALLY?  WELL RALEIGH!

There once was a man from Raleigh
Who liked to share food with his collie
 On his knees one day,
               while bent over the tray,
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Sir Walter Raleigh :  
 by James Edward Lee Sr.

Sir Walter Raleigh
Smoked cigars  wrapped
in onion-skins
dated ballerina
Virginia Slims


11/22/17...

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It’s days like this that my mind returns to Raleigh

The pitch, sandy futon, and our intertwined deviant legs

Pushing for a fix

I for one goal, you for another


I would be more aware by the end of the night

of the smoothness of your forehead, and your full...

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Mr. Potato
a.k.a., Spud Murphy

'I'll have another cigarette,'
as John Lennon (1940 – 1980) writ,
'And curse Sir Walter Raleigh (1552 – 1618)
he was such a stupid git.'
However,
(altho' to his cost)
it may have
gone to his head
(which, unluckily, later he lost),
Raleigh introduced
the noble potato
(the blight of Ireland)
into Britain —...

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