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Gainesville Poems - Poems about Gainesville


Premium Member A Difficult Decision
...We were blessed to visit with our grandchildren and had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day We ate, we laughed, we played a game before they went on their way. Two of our grandchildren are at the Uni......

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Categories: gainesville, humor,
Form: Verse
His Old Clothes
...His old clothes came to whisper his good name; he values them with fragile pride instead. No dreadful task, he always picks the same plain blue jeans and shirt striped in white and red. Shat......

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Categories: gainesville, clothes,
Form: Rhyme



A Ghost's Story
...Gainesville is the status quotidian I’m still living in It’s a place I used to stay Where I now escape to, far from home, trying to recognize yesterday’s affections in today The world has change......

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Categories: gainesville, grief, lonely, loss, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Gainesville
...You're going back to Gainesville, which I think is very brave. They tied our hands and made us dance their dance. We were prisoners of a smear war who voluntarily walked the plank. But now that the s......

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Categories: gainesville, music,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Vietnam's Unwelcome Heroes (Co-Written With Tim Ryerson)
...We gave Johnny a gun and a uniform Trained him to kill, in a regiment conform Sent him deep into Vietnam jungles warm With little regard to how we did him harm So certain we knew what we ......

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Categories: gainesville, social, warwar, old, old,
Form: Quatrain




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