Long Arr Poems

There's a Senior's home called the Shady Lane
    and life's curse is at an end.
Where a hundred souls are kept in line
    till Death its message sends.
They built a...

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There Ernie and I were standing, at the edge of dark steps,
They descended into a concrete tunnel to somewhere below.
Robert, do you think she could have gone down there he said,
I don't know Ernie, but...

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 I woke up that next morning after arriving in New York,
Oh boy was my stomach sore from laughing so hard last night.
Could tell Ernie was dreaming as his eyes were in REM mode,
Noticed his...

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That train took us north after our Washington D.C. stop,
Suddenly there it was looming grand on the horizon.
I told Ernie I was so excited to see the Big Apple,
He blinked up at me with that...

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Well, I had promised Ernie and Snowy I'd walk them downtown,
It was cold so I tucked them warmly inside my jacket pocket.
Sneaking out of that rail yard in daylight was quite tricky,
I guess by now...

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Below is my original post from 2 weeks ago, President Obama has 
announced that VA Secretary Shinseki has resigned "voluntarily" from
his position, but let's face the fact the President fired him behind closed doors
so that...

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One morning Ernie and I awoke to a noisy train yard,
It was that place many hitchers feared known as Chicago.
Since Ernie had traveled there before he warned me,
In that little voice he said don't open...

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Here we are in 1650, which is ten minutes to five
swing the wheel to the West, which is left,
put your sun cream away, man the mizzen and the stays
as we set off for some murder...

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Hello yea bonny wee pawky thing,
sittin' there tuggin' at ma hert strings.
Aye yer wee ,an' oan yer oan yer hard tae see,
niver mind wee thing jist let it be.

Withoot you, we wid hae a scunnered...

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When I Think About

This world my life those lives of every living thing,
I sometimes disdain those commas and mostly those periods.
Something being so final in their brief little dot endings,
I mean why should I stop...

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Jokes passed around in my car…
Sure went very far…left me with a scar…
Maybe I’ll be His unique, brilliant star…
It’s awesome that I’m a daydreamer thus far…

I’m like a prowling lion, waiting for its prey –...

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Hermes broke his Father (Zeus) and Mother’s (Maia) heart
when he intervened upon seeing a green eyed blonde woman
of Celtic origin, on her way to the afterlife, breaking all the rules, 
displeasing Hades whom showered his...

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A little breeze
Blew through
My head
Something
Nagged at me
A storm was coming
The breeze
Grew in intensity
As I open the cupboard
By the time I got to the back
Where the pan I need was
A Tornado it was
Pots and pans
Thundered and...

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The midnight sun belongs to Alaska
where children play and parents
lose all sense of time until fatigue
reminds them it it is time for shut eye
as they call it a night where dusk is
is a golden hue...

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As my rusty hinged mind door finally does open,
I see the letters of my words descend and disappear,
My hand still writes gripping pen so gently to paper,
The tip swirls in familiar circles yet no ink...

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As my rusty hinged mind door finally does open,
I see the letters of my words descend and disappear,
My hand still writes gripping pen so gently to paper,
The tip swirls in familiar circles yet no ink...

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I am not normal no one is .. 
   Far inside the feeling exists 
       Round and round I go over it 
    ...

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We'll miss you but hope to join you someday in eternity

Passing too soon like uncle Bobby and father John

You stood strong in the face of your family's tragedies

I remember a little soldier saluting our fallen...

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SEX   AND   POLITICS   IN  JAPAN

(Voting  in Japan has an altogether different flavor
In this interview with a senior politician)
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Traveling to any place it wants;
This mind can go anywhere it desires. 
It has sat upon one Pharoh's lonely stone,
Watching the others slowly rise to red sky.

It was there when Napoleon knelt before Josephine,
Witness to...

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Note: ( I proudly share the same birth date with my favorite poet, Robert Frost (3-26)

I wrote the following poem in honor of my favorite poet, Robert Frost, who was born in the same 
month...

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Told me many things it did see.
A twisted life circus performing sadly below;
Perched upon this whirling dizzy crazy planet,
He said humans were not victims yet the cause.

He said it really wasn't a fault of Earth.
She...

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I've watched this bum that some call President - Commander In Chief,

He made dozens of promises during his first campaign and none he did keep,

Promised "CHANGE" on a grand scale and has only made this...

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He placed me there tumbling around with his never change,
If darkness is evil it lies in this satin pit of his suit.
Seeing light at top yet so slippery is slope I can't climb,
Will he let...

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Morning on Lake Rhapsody

Standing on her shore 
Quiet beauty surrounds one
Gentle sounds still everywhere
Soothing eyes and ears

Soft golden light rising
Tall timber ridge aglow
Silken voice of loon
Telling tales of yesterday

Water's surface so calm
Nature's perfect mirror
Upside down yet...

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