Long Appleseed Poems

I
How long have I been doing this
Throwing my time & money
Into a hole
Filling up notebooks
Mining overheard conversation
For lines
Squeezing the sponge
Of my wine soaked
Mind
Into the bucket
Of poetry
And now here we are
Gulping down the
Lead tainted water
Like Romans
Romans
Forced...

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Transaurius

Divined from a thousand novellas
On the cusp of hallucination
Somewhere between the monastery and the circus.........

Devoid of any specious goodness
Deficient in any and all pragma
Having escaped from several weddings
One if by name, two if by shame

Resonant...

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How do I Thank You 
for watching over my child 

investing your 

time 

energy 

focus 

and 

passion 

in him  

Every  

day? 

How do I thank you

for using your keen eye 

to emerge with...

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Back in the early 30's and 40's in Southern New Mexico
Was a traveling preacher watching over his herd
Never had a church like we know
He did a lot of his preaching where ever he would go
A...

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there's something now in America's room
to give us a sense of uncommon gloom

may be a smart guy, a financial advisor
with a hundred minus 99 an uncommon divisor 

the room's haves, still have, the not, don't
99...

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Johnny's just an American guy
  a young American guy who wonders why
People sometimes look at him funny
  though it's nothing to do with love or money

Johnny, you see, is a medical rarity
 ...

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Johnny was a lover of God's country
who roamed cherished land because he was free.
A skilled outdoorsman with backcountry charms,
he donned a burlap sack with holes for arms.
To wear rugged shoes was quite a blessing,
for barefoot...

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basket of green and red apples 
fullscreen fruitful seeds planted 
rotten apples in my eyes
have no demise
I find useful rotten fruit laying
in the middle of the group
for the abused and bruised make apple juice
I fuse,...

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Let’s rhyme today Trixie said.
She thumped me soundly on my head.
Tweet Tweet Tweet Twee.
Bleat Bleat Bleat Blee.
Let’s dance around the poetry tree!

I was not in a mood to think or see
What my muse clearly had...

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I'll bring the avocados
And feed you as you come for safaris
Like my mother did, further beyond the Kalahari
And we can share the dips, the spreads and the shakes with all kind of stories
In the sunny...

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::::::::::::::::::::::::  APPLE


     Never true from seed
     wild card with every new sprout
     the fruits of the earth


     ...

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"Johnny Appleseed" is a children's song, sung to the tune of "The Battle Hymn of the 
Republic".

Oh, do you know the story of Old Johnny Appleseed?
He gave appleseeds to everyone that he thought was in...

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Jackie sat on a hill outside and began to read.
He was chastised by one Johnny Appleseed.
Why do you waste your time? Come help me get honey.
No thanks said Jackie, I am reading to this bunny.

The...

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