A Song That Almost Was Not
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In California, in the year nineteen thirty-nine,
at Culver City, a movie studio was fine.
Metro Goldwyn Mayer was the largest company.
They produced the best motion pictures people could...
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Categories:
fleming, film, history, music,
Form: Rhyme
TRUMP'S GOLDEN AGE
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The Golden Age always begins with chaos,
With screaming, fallen icons and bloody fields,
With fiercely fought heart-wrenching battles
With the conquered foes who refused to yield.
The old r...
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Categories:
fleming, encouraging, inspiration, leadership, political,
Form: Rhyme
Ashes, Ashes
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Ashes, Ashes, Flames all around
And remnants of our lives are scattered
Upon the crackling, smoking ground.
Our hopes and dreams buried in the rumble,
Lost are the things that we thought me...
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Categories:
fleming, betrayal, fire, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
007 over-the-edge
...Brit's spy guy from Ian Fleming
Is Bond who goes chaos stemming!
When the web of life slumps
See how quickly he jumps
Sadly to die like a lemming
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Categories:
fleming, death, environment, funeral, humanity,
Form: Limerick
I Feel So Little Send Me what you heard around the worlds said It is Good It feels Like Good Energy
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Categories:
fleming, adventure, america, analogy, beauty,
Form: Free verse
PAY ATTENTION
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I pay attention.
I see the sadness in a young schoolgirl’s eyes
When she has been cruelly ridiculed and ostracized.
For what? She doesn’t look the same
As others; too tall, too fat, too blon...
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Categories:
fleming, inspiration, introspection, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
TRUTH STANDS ALONE
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No mystery here.
I’ll speak the truth,
Whatever that truth may be.
Some say truth is relative.
How can that be the case?
What’s relative is our personal slant
Seen through a particular shad...
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Categories:
fleming, inspiration, introspection,
Form: Free verse
WINTER WONDERLAND
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As a tiny tot from pastural Tennessee
My warm world consisted of all things green.
Forests and valleys, rivers and lakes,
Beautiful and flourishing, were all I had seen.
Then my small world...
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Categories:
fleming, family, father, memory, snow,
Form: Rhyme
CANVASS OF OUR LIVES
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Some people paint with their words,
Creating images with contrast and flow
That lift the hearts of others,
Inspiring both their spirit and soul.
Some paint with their life’s work,
Their c...
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Categories:
fleming, feelings, inspiration, people, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
REALITY IN TRANSITION
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Thought crystallizes. Its edges become sharp and hard.
Soon we begin to believe the illusion of its boundaries.
We forget it is a wave of energy, in flux, pulsating,
Reaching out to every glo...
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Categories:
fleming, change,
Form: Dramatic Verse
YOU CANNOT FAIL
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What would you do,
What heights would you sail,
If you really knew
You could not fail?
Would you talk to yourself
In a brand new, positive way?
Would you only listen to the
Encouraging t...
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Categories:
fleming, encouraging, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
We Don't Like Poetry
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She said, “I don’t like poetry.”
“Forsooth!” said I, “Really?”
Yet you listen, hour upon breathless hour
To rhythmic verses of country whine,
Endless twanging, chaotic musical notes banging...
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Categories:
fleming, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Seeds of Greatness
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Magical, mysterious, completely incomprehensible!
Is there anything more divine than a seed,
Any seed, large or small, any size at all?
Infused within its compact evolving time capsule
Is w...
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Categories:
fleming, inspiration, spiritual,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Just a Breathy Sigh
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A breathy sigh that moved the air
encircled us with lusty flair.
Its sweet and tender brush of love
Left unsaid our intention there.
Some deep and thoughtful bold assertion
Drew us closer i...
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Categories:
fleming, devotion, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
Fully Loaded
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When I arise in the morning, after “Thank you, God!” I often ask,
Am I fully loaded for this day to meet and complete my many tasks?
Have I spent the necessary time in thoughtful contemplatio...
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Categories:
fleming, appreciation, inspiration, morning,
Form: Rhyme
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