Long Backer Poems

People don’t think of you the way that you like 
who do you think you’re conning when talking all that ite 
blagging everybody you come into contact with 
proud of the first opportunity to take...

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Cycles of life stream reams of joy and pain
Alternating nets and magnets of sunshine and rain
Sifting through rest and strain  

When by default I favour a fault
That in my right sense I should halt
Meaning...

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Are You Dreaming of Winning a Race?
(After "Scarborough Fair" by Simon and Garfunkle)

Are you dreaming of winning a race,
Harley, Sym, Suzuki, Triumph!
Find sweet success when you win the great chase.
You once flew like the wind...

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Take that road down yonder, she said
Toward the signpost that reads, lickskillet
Turn right up thar and then left after that
To a highfulootin road that’s paved in black

After you see the red store building by the...

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at this junction in your journey at this pivotal point in your life
you need to hear a word from your Sponsor, the Lord Jesus Christ
so stop and take a moment and find some quiet time
to...

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It is time for the second round 
In this ghastly ghost town 
Looking out there 
Scenery that is a scare 
They want to do it again 
Knocking off good looking girls and men 
First time...

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I’ve always been your number two
The person left behind

That person staring at your back
While you’re waiting in a line

I’m your knight in shining armor when the clouds are full of grey
But I’m the coal in...

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Enough Is Enough Horn Haiku

enough is enough
trump really was terrible
so we should impeach

completely absurd
totally denigrating
should get rid of trump

had been Bellau Wood
soldiers wounded and they died
so we cried and cried

trump sure is a strain
critize, condemn...

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I am not a Looker-backer – 
forward projection mostly
my way; in fact, often 
choosing the path of strongest
resistance, leaning into a
Head-wind, till so far inclined
my angle, faith is all that is
left me – I am...

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KNOCKER.B

Yes here we are in the great south land,   (Australia)
right amongst the knockers be.
Don't stick your nose up or be grand,
they'll stomp yer like a flea.
In the land of knockers they take joy,
the...

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Israel,since its creation in 1948,has close ties with Iran,which becomes the second Muslim country to recognise the Jewish state after Turkey.They become allies under the shah,Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.At the time,Iran is home to the biggest...

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I’m dumbstruck by the good luck
Of a woodchuck on a spree
The harmony of living well
And laughing heartily 

But still, I often wonder
In a jungle canopy
If nature is the nurture
Of the forest or a tree

When lightning...

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I cannot stand playing hard ball, I'm a softball girl, ya know,
Hard ball is for men, I could get hurt by the balls they throw,
I would be too nervous to run to the base for...

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