JACK ELLISON IS NINETY YEARS OLD TODAY
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August the eleventh is a very special day
Because happy Jack Ellison is ninety today
A talented musician he used to play the banjo
With the Canadiana singers, many years ago
A ladies' man...
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Categories:
fine gentleman, birthday, happy, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Incident At Milton Creek Silver Mine
...Giant balls of tumbleweed were blowing down the main street
And off the Sierra Nevada mountains there blew a fine sleet
It was late December in the old Western town of Milton Creek
Preparation...
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Categories:
fine gentleman, america, christmas, december, memory,
Form: Narrative
Remembering A Friend: Milton Hankins
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On December 5th, 2022, Milton Hankins wrote he'd turned eighty-one.
It was to be the last he would celebrate, but we continue to honor him,
a fine gentleman, poet, and friend. December 22 wi...
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Categories:
fine gentleman, friend, memorial,
Form: Elegy
Nothing Short of a Fantasy
...It’s nothing short of a fantasy,
waking at dawn toes in the sand;
Fine gentleman holding flowers,
a luscious brunch sits before you;
Waking at dawn toes in the sand,
at first you think you’...
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Categories:
fine gentleman, feelings, love, romance, romantic,
Form: Pantoum
Dear Heart
...DEAR HEART
Hello, my dear heart… yes, my own oldie, goodie heart.
I need to have a heart to heart talk with you, seriously.
You and I know of the many prospects for “dear heart”
I let go for de...
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Categories:
fine gentleman, emotions, heart, relationship, romance,
Form: Free verse
My Son, Far Away
...My Son, Far Away
In the sunny gloom of this
ocean of burning Earth,
the scythe of time hovers like
a hungry vulture above us
men of "honorable" duty, but thankfully,
for my...
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Categories:
fine gentleman, death, father, father son,
Form: Free verse
Lifeboat the Days of Despair
...Part 6
The Doctor relented, "We have come to the end
Of a most dire and precarious trip.
We started as strangers, but I consider you friends."
And from his water... gave all a last sip....
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Categories:
fine gentleman, adventure, allegory, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Are You Now, Free Falling, Like Heaven Sent Rain
...Are You Now, Free Falling, Like Heaven Sent Rain
We hope you passed, free falling, like Heaven sent rain
Are we ever to hear or see your like again?
Sad sorrow arrives, as we mourn this world's ...
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Categories:
fine gentleman, art, dedication, loss, music,
Form: Rhyme
John John
...This is for John John but you may read it as well
Boise isn't a thriving metropolis but it's famous as hell
For a certain poet friend
Over backward I'd bend
For this fine gentleman, from ...
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Categories:
fine gentleman, friendship,
Form: Limerick
To War:
...“War is kind”, so he said
Inclined to disagree I was back then
It was my heart then, now it’s my head
Now I write with a different pen
Blood spattered uniforms
Severed arms and limbs
Destructio...
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Categories:
fine gentleman, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
The Black Dahlia
...A phantom beauty sheathed within a gown of utter darkness,
Stalks the lonely avenues of Los Angeles, seeking in vengeances
Revenge for her murder to bring him unto justice’s final damnation!
On th...
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Categories:
fine gentleman, america, grief, halloween, holiday,
Form: Free verse
Midnight Raven: a Splendidly Overdone Poem
...The midnight raven does not chatter.
He screeches and waits
upon the gallows for a hanged man’s eye
-a tasty morsel for a daemon.
For a raven is a fine gentleman
who feasts only on the foulest c...
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Categories:
fine gentleman, dark, death, fear, horror,
Form: Blank verse
The Windmiller's Guest
...M'lady, wait
just you wait and see.
The wind plays roundabout
and likes to bluster showing sudden strength.
The windmiller
has studied the wind
and now he studies you.
Like the wind – he has...
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Categories:
fine gentleman, 11th grade, angst, romantic,
Form: Verse
Now a Day Talk
...A long time ago, in the wild west,
the worth of a man, daily put to test.
Fields to plow,
and crops to raise,
while defending his home,
everyday.
Shooters, and gamblers, made their way,
robbin...
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Categories:
fine gentleman, life, people, places, time,
Form: Narrative
My Empty Suitcase
...I set out on an adventure
I want to collect antiques
Things from the beginning of time
Items that were unique
I left my house, nude body and
An empty suitcase in hand
Started my walk
Across...
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Categories:
fine gentleman, me, me,
Form: Rhyme
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