How the West Was Lost
...The Great Continental Divide, more appropriately
known to most Easterners as the Continental Divide
of the Americas, but nope, not out here in the Western
country past the great Missourah and th...
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Categories:
easterners, allusion, analogy, bullying, character,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Summer Rain-N
...We don't sing, 'Rain, rain, go away; please come back another day'.
Where I live, rain is always expected to come, but is never 'a given'.
If rain is to 'stand up and deliver', we must pray to Go...
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Categories:
easterners, autumn, seasons, summer,
Form: Rhyme
When Might Does Not Make Right
...Women and children muddle through debris
Scouring the rubble for possessions lost
War-torn Middle Easterners might agree
That there is nothing worth this cost
So many children will not have b...
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Categories:
easterners, children, war,
Form: Rhyme
Snow In Calgary
...The end of September and they got snow in Calgary
Hang on, thought Calgary was Utopia starting with a “C”
All you easterners
Or should I say, nerds
Those who thought it was utopia were ru...
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Categories:
easterners, celebration,
Form: Limerick
In Us We Trust
...In Us We Trust
Jersey winds cool western beaches, hold the sun up high for more,
Sand and errant toes wildly breach as easterners go to and fro,
In there lies such great divides, for each and al...
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Categories:
easterners, america, beautiful, hope, life,
Form: Lyric
Karmic Kindness
...Since the 90s my teachers
taught me, gave me the tools
since then, I've learned
Tibetan Buddhists have no rules
Some Karmic life-changing practices:
Tame my ego
Place others first
Give uncon...
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Categories:
easterners, earth, freedom, giving, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Reflecting Voice
...Tomorrow will come to mind soon
when we'll part ways to come again.
We will forget yesterday we cried rain,
we will remember the meatless meal
we shared behind door of ignorance.
Africa have m...
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Categories:
easterners, abuse, africa, anger, anxiety,
Form: Blank verse
Begging For Apologies
...What are people waiting for? They're yelling, can you hear?
They're wanting an apology, I'm offended that is clear
I'm nor inferring anything, to make my point to you
Some people turn a blind eye,...
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Categories:
easterners, identity, immigration, patriotic, society,
Form: Lyric
Easy Living Guide
...Get ready for the fireworks
they're coming from outside
South of border? Middle East?
Obama prints a guide
An easy living handbook
tells everything that's free
All the tricks to scam us all
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Categories:
easterners, corruption, leadership, patriotic, truth,
Form: Rhyme