The Men Who Write Your Christmas Movies, Part Iv
...“I knew then it was the last novel I’d write,
couldn’t go elsewhere due to my contract.
They wanted books like I’d written before,
but there was no way I could ever go back.
“Yet there was a lo...
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Categories:
erskine, growth, judgement, meaningful, sad,
Form: Epic
The Men Who Write Your Christmas Movies, Part I
...I used to be ashamed to say that I
once wrote for a rather large company,
the kind the likes to print up greeting cards,
and for some reason, make Christmas movies.
Now this caused much conster...
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Categories:
erskine, growth, judgement, meaningful, sad,
Form: Epic
Claudelle
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Claudelle, we must go away and start a new life.
This fruitless sharecropping has just cost me my wife.
Believe me, in every way, I loved your mother.
Frustrated and annoyed, she left me...
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Categories:
erskine, first love, heartbreak, vanity,
Form: Rhyme
Darling Jill
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Why I do declare!
I have never seen a boy with white hair!
Meeting you is such a thrill.
My name is Darling Jill.
I’ll say you’re the cutest thing I’ve ever seen.
Has my daddy been treating ...
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Categories:
erskine, adventure, fantasy, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
Albino, Where's the Gold
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Come on, albino. Tell me where’s the gold?
They say you know how to look.
Where is it on my farm?
Based on the novel "God's Little Acre", by the late Erskine Caldwell
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Categories:
erskine, imagination, people,
Form: Kimo
The Foolish Farmer
...Ty Ty Walden, what are we to do with you?
Your farm has steadily decreased in value.
People think you are a fool and not a bit funny.
You are not growing crops that would make you money.
Ty Ty, w...
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Categories:
erskine, adventure, family
Form: Rhyme