Cooties
...If only, if only I could catch the cooties from you, please, give me the cooties, I heard, they can cure the blues, sometimes
Give them to me, so they'll be mines
The cooties aren't so scary, when ...
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Categories:
huntsville, for him,
Form: Ballad
Brown Eyes
...He played guitar in a Texas tavern -
Could have been famous but for her brown eyes.
He loved her more than his music could tell.
He smiled and played while he swallowed her lies.
There came a t...
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Categories:
huntsville, lost love,
Form: Quatrain
My Mayberry Like Winters
...The winters here in northern Alabama are pretty mild
unlike the ones up on Long Island when I was a child
were "lucky" to see a couple of inches here each winter
and if we don't we try not to beco...
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Categories:
huntsville, humor, winter,
Form: Light Verse
She's Too Young To Marry
...I brought her back to Texas, she's too young to marry
I brought her back to Texas, clear from Tucumcari
The sheriff said,"John Henry, you know you broke the law."
The sheriff said,"John Henry, bea...
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Categories:
huntsville, humor,
Form: Couplet
Saturday In Huntsville
...So far away from home, but it feels like Birmingham
Capturing pictures of it all to post on Instagram
Now thinking if I should relocate for better perspicacity
Alluding that something different wi...
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Categories:
huntsville, celebration, friendship, humor, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Day of the Tornadoes
...The Day of the Tornadoes
By Elton Camp
April 27, 2011 is a day we’ll long recall
When natural disaster on Alabama did fall
The weather bureau warned us days before
And nobody ignores the for...
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Categories:
huntsville, lossday, people, day, people,
Form: Rhyme
Don'T Know Where-
...I don’t know where you are,
Even though you have GPS,
On your Jaguar.
She knows your every step.
You give her your best.
I don’t know if you’ll come back,
Even if I agree to be friends.
She ...
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Categories:
huntsville, life, loss, lost love,
Form: Rhyme