Long Anyplace Poems

I was driving to Utah, because I had gotten a promotion;
And chose the scenic route, so as to put things in motion.

I had been traveling from Los Angeles, to Salt Lake City;
And the scenery along...

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I was out one day walking, along the glad sounding shore,
Gathering pretty seashells, and watching the seagulls soar.

To the left were lofty mountains, touching the azure skies,
To the right, sparkling ocean, and ahead the butterflies!

In...

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God! We  Behold that you are great and we know somehow your ways are pass finding out. anyhow!
Neither can the number of his years be searched  out anytime he made small drops of...

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Early one morning, as fresh springtime was just ending,
I was hiking in the woods, and overhearing the birds sing.

And with a tranquil heart, and lost in a deep green world,
I was reveling in the gaiety,...

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My (bleeding) heart is filled to overflowing, 
To see any growing glad(iolus), garden glowing;
Each sun peached, (petunia) petaled delight,
Is frozen in precious moments of pure delight,
From bursting buds, to the spicy boom of blooms,
Nature is...

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My favorite radio show
is Wait...Wait, Don't Tell Me!
on NPR near you.

But, it has bothered me,
over the years,
a snagging voice in sign-off background,
threatening the host will see me again next week,
as if that was the answer...

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Peeps Need To Be Strong

alright drop the beats
got this fire burning hotter inside of me
don't want to get the best of me
sitting here drinking my forty why should I worry
everything today's a joke including the...

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I was a bonafide, happy beautician, like a gorgeous, daisy sun as it is rising;
And charming, happy faces were my pursuit, like silvery moonlight uprising.

My days were a flurry of manicures and facials, like nature's...

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Dear God!
by Taras Shevchenko
translation by Michael R. Burch

Dear God, disaster again!
Life was once calm, serene...
But as soon as we began to break the chains
Of bondage that enslaved us,
The whip cracked! The serfs' blood flew!
Now, like...

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Red shirt with a matching hat pulled down low over his eyes.
Just leaning, holding up the wall while having a smoke.
Watching him watch me.
Still looking out for my girl, but maybe it's time I look...

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I was an eminent, solar physicist, like the blushing rose, craving renown.
Each butterscotch morning I drove to work, and toiled until red sundown.

The observatory was the place I loved, keeping watch on our nearest star;
Like...

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( In The Thunder & Rain ) 
   
   The Thunder Is Your Moans The Rain Is 
Your Wetness... 
      I Place my Tongue under each...

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Goodnight my dear boy and what's that you say?
You want me to chase the bad monsters away?
Well, I'll tell you a tale that may just be true
And if it's made up, it is done just...

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Econo Lodge sign
       High
        On
        Its
      Pylon

Best we can do
For...

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ANYONE CAN BE A FATHER BUT NOT EVERYONE CAN BE A DAD,
I WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE THE BEST FATHER THAT A SON EVER HAD. 
WHEN I WAS YOUNGER YOU USE TO...

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What I'd like to give you, is an ounce of my perfume
Scented with smiles, laughter and inspirational love
What I’d like to give you, is a feeling of joy abloom
Pouring from the heart like a whisper...

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timing is everything
pretty much anytime 
anyhow anyplace                    

morning noon or evening     ...

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The Tramp Persona
Who was this boy, a pauper born?
Existing in despair and continual forlorn
Scandalized, accused of communist sympathies
Encompassing both adulation, and social controversies
Charlie Chaplin how can I take you seriously?
Chucklesome slapstick injecting tragedy
Awkward, little mime...

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The glimmer in your eyes
When you look at me
It's hidden to others
But so plain for me to see

The fire that burns within
Our lustful hearts
It only grows dim 
Whenever we are apart

Our heart belongs to each...

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We were miserable and exhausted by the rife. 
We leave the severe planet to fight for itself. 
Be patient, though! We admit in another life. 
Will toss the earth; however, we will not strife.
 
We...

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After church their daughter ran into the house and maps she began reviewing
Mom and Dad walked over and asked…“what is it you’re doing?”

“I’m looking for the town where God works!” she said as only an...

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How Shall I Say I Love You
 
My Darling Love, how shall I say I love you?
You know I do, but how can portray this to you in words?

Let me try My Dear One—

With a...

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With Facebook, tweeter, You Tube and
cable TVs. The human mind has been 
set free. The impossible can now take 
place, the reunification of the human 
race. 

Screen to screen , face to face, finger
to finger...

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This is a song for a man, it’s a song for a boy
for a woman or girl
This is a song for the straight and the gay
It’s a song for the whole of the world

This is...

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Some call it a halfway house because it's halfway between hell and living,
but living that way isn't really living at all; it's just a slower way of dying, friend.

Your self-imposed life sentence is hereby commuted...

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