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Capn Waller An Perth
  Captain Waller  & Perth

The Japanese navy they came south,
Invaded Indonesia, in 1942
Cruiser Perth of 6 inch guns,
Captain Hector Waller was to choose...

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Categories: waller, adventure, anniversary, lost, anniversary,
Form: Ballad



Captain Waller
Captain Waller
Good Aussie, Captain Waller,
 from his deck chair he would holler,   (on the bridge)
As the Stuka dive bomber,    (German...

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Categories: waller, adventure,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member A Poem For Sam Cooke
December 14, 1965           

"Mr. Samuel Cooke. Sam Cooke??
You been in that casket for three days..
You...

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Categories: waller, america, celebrity, devotion, music,
Form: Rhyme
Early Morning Harmony
Danced with
Conceived and born
Sung to and nursed
On a downy soft quilt

Transfused with
Vibrations of Ellington
Basie, Crosby, Waller
Goodman and Armstrong

Skyrocketed spiritually 
By Kern and Carmichael
Porter, Gershwin and...

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Categories: waller, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Just Mad
JUST MAD!

I AWOKE THIS MORNING, JUST MAD!
WENT TO MY APPOINTMENT, JUST MAD!
I HAD TO GET UP AT 6:30 AM TO CATCH THE BUS AT 7:30...

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Categories: waller, black african american, funny
Form: Dramatic Verse



The Love Life of a Poet
Man and poet? Bet you know it
Tender verse can get you girls
Plain or – whoopee! – eager groupie
Matching your poetic pearls

Just how much you get...

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Categories: waller, funny, love, words, me,
Form: Rhyme
Chocolate Sun
CHOCOLATE SUN!

It always starts with a question,
would I be out of line if I told you that I thought about you all night long,
last night,...

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Categories: waller, deep, longing, love,
Form: Romanticism
Looking For Gold In the Sandbox
3-18-2012	Looking for Gold in the Sandbox
There may have been a rumor or two about someone finding gold in the sandbox,
So we dig,some of us give...

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Categories: waller, art,
Form: I do not know?
Hmmmm
HMMMM!

I WOULD LIKE TO BITE YOUR NECK,
NOT HARD SO IT WILL HURT,
BUT GENTLE AND FIRM SO YOU REALLY FEEL THE PRESSURE,
BOTH SIDES AND THEN THE...

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Categories: waller, beautiful, fire, sensual, sexy,
Form: Romanticism
Were U the One
Were U the One!

Were U the one in my second grade class?
Were U the one, prettiest little girl on the church ground?
Were U the one...

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Categories: waller, care, love, truth,
Form: Romanticism
Know
KNOW

Denial is a blindfold, it helps you cope 
with the truth,
if only I could get over this wall, 
I could see it, the bright shiny...

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Categories: waller, art,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Hitch Hikers On Me
Now let me see
My Mom told me not to ride that boar hog
But as you will see my brothers and me 
Didn't listen to Mommy
We...

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Categories: waller, adventure, animal, childhood, insect,
Form: Prose
Hint
Hint!

I HEARD A CHILD GIVE HIS MOTHER AN ORDER TO DO SOMETHING, HIS MOMMA SNAPPED BACK AND SAID YOU DON’T GIVE THE ORDERS AND HE...

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Categories: waller, character, childhood,
Form: Verse
Hardover Hec
Hector Waller

“Hardover Hec” yes they called him,
Yes hard a port, that’s it, right,
If bombs or torpedoes were a falling, crawling,
He’dodge em, with sweetest delight,

The Germans...

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Categories: waller, adventure,
Form: Ballad
Sounds
Sounds like Fats ....
Waller or Domino?
I don't know,
who do you want it to be?

Sounds like Bob ...
Marley or Dylan?
I ain't tellin,
who is it you're hearin'?

Sounds...

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Categories: waller, history, music, time,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things