Best Thet Poems

A Whistling Girl and a Crowing Hen
 
By Elton Camp
 
 
	“We keep thet big flock o’ chickens fer eggs and meat,” Milas explained to his niece Elvira visiting from the city.  “We git tired of so much pork an’ we don’t have t’...

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You come home from work tired,wornout, beat.
Your body aches all over from the top of your head to the bottom of your feet
The radio blaring, theT.V is full blast
Your oldest son wants to borrow the car and money for gas.
You go up stairs about to...

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  'They' tell me, now,
A husky-mix dog won't stay.
Tie 'em up, pen 'em,
Or the neighbor's complain.
So, I didn't even Look for another Cain.

But let me tell you, 
My Cain dog was Husky.
Silver and grey and a
'from the toenails' growl...
But HE stayed, no chains.

Small town,...

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TRIMDON GRANGE EXPLOSION   *  
( 16 FEB  1882,  DURHAM,  ENGLAND )

Noo March is heor and the wind she’s cowld  *
But the sixty nine sowls divvent feel it   -  strange
Theor noo  wheor they  feel...

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Kit

Before I opened the carton,
   I’d chose the name Kit,
      Thinking of strong Wild West women.

Our little girl, Gigi, ran to my bedside, barking
   Excitedly, “A present?  Aaarrr-ooo!  For me, mamma?
   ...

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Heck, never was much of a one fer romance,
Mostly shy ‘round a lady,
Never learnt how to proper dance,
couldn’t do it if’n ya paid me.

Course er’er times I got all likkered up
And jumped and kicked ‘till ah coon’t no more,
But Bobby Joe surprised me when she...

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Well they done took away ma pension
whilst I waren’t payin no tention.
Never thought thet thar could happen,
Seems ma face they keep a slappin'.

Ah trusted all them folk thet said ah could,
ah took their word like they sed ah should,
but now ah see they jest a...

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THE BULLET TREE

No one knows how long the bullet has been lodged in the big    old maple tree
Mr. Ailey claims he knows    but    Mr. Ailey is an old    old man
No one  ...

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THE BULLET TREE

No one knows how long the bullet has been lodged in the big    old maple tree
Mr. Ailey claims he knows    but    Mr. Ailey is an old    old man
No one  ...

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What that removes the dark?
What's that lightens the world?
What's that red round?
Which on the early east is only found?

Why it's so cold?
When the weather is moulded by hazy fog.
And why is it so hot?
When big ponds dry to small dots.

Why the koel sings?
Whence the winter...

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By Elton Camp

Old Bubba had spent his life in the hills
Plain food and drink from whiskey stills

So to the big city he decided he’d go
For about other things he’d like to know

He spent the night at the local YMCA
For breakfast, to a café the next...

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By Elton Camp

Howdy, Leroy, how’s you and you’rn?
I ain’t seed you since th' baby was born.

Livin’ way up hear in th’ mountain,
Of th’ days I sorta lose accountin’.

Well, Jim, as fur as I kin tell
We’se doing tolerable well.

Lulu’s marriage has at last been laid.
Wuz getting’...

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MY FRIENDS DON'T KNOW ME 

LIKE THEY THINK

THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT I GO THOUGH

WHEN THET SEE ME IT'S ALL SMILES AND GOOD TIMES

LITTLE DO THEY KNOW I'M DYING ON THE INSIDE

NOT REALY DYING BUT THAT'S WHAT IT FEEL LIKE SOMETIMES

I DON'T KNOW IF I'M COMMING...

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When I  be out cuttin mye graiss befo,
Duh Lawd gimmie a sign.
Least ways iffin hit wus not duh Lawd
Maybe sumpthin else, cause
Duh Lawd He don’t want no body
usin His name fur a laiff.
So I be starten ovuh hyar,
wif mye tell.
When I do be out...

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Love, feeling, and excitement!
Are exactly what I'm dealing with
And without you, I'm powerless... so powerless...

You're constantly on my mind
And you're embedded in my heart
What would I do with you?
I would be nothing!
Even if I clear my mind
You'll always be there, no matter what I do
And...

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