Long Balsa Poems

"I Would Be....WOOD"


   "Knock On Me!" or more correct "Knock On WOOD!" You've probably said that and rapped your knuckles against me while saying it! I know you've knocked on me many times...

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Erlenkönig knelt to the ground, his urge to destroy Reginn was strong but he knew it was one or the other. Rid yourself of Reginn or stop this coup.  He chose to stop the...

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Redundant Again

By Elton Camp

There’s an expression hard to beat
It’s a reference to “hamburger meat”

Here’s another that’s too often seen
Come and use our “ATM machine”

In a storm, folks always “hunker down”
But to “hunker up” is not...

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I used to like to go up into the attic when I was a  young child. I was alone up there, away from authority, able to explore that dark quiet world at my leisure....

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At the water’s edge I stood.

Oh my heart was invigorated to see the soft ripples in the water.

There was a warm breeze that also moved my hair.

I felt the Lord’s presence all around me.

I took...

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The model cub in Tyler, Texas
Announced a model contest
I saw an event I could enter
But it will be a big test

I only had one little engine
It seemed to run really fine
A birthday present given to...

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Toys of Yesteryear

Some of you have seen these.
Simple, beautiful toys.
Played on the living room carpet.
Sometimes on our knees.

Some right on an oil clothed
kitchen table.
No hang ups about the sexuality
of girls and boys.
In those days, we...

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MY MODEL PLANE

Way back, when I was 12 years old,
I built a model airplane with my Dad,
It was a great experience, but most of all,
We spent some time together, and for that I was glad.

The...

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Garden of Zen, showers of cherry blossoms dance pink on champagne air.            Taste of sunshine new on the tongue, winter’s bleak falling away, ides...

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don’t get me wrong,
i could give a *****about
katie holmes,
katie cruise,
katie holmes-cruise or
kate noelle holmes,
as Wiki would have her.

but one must find asylum
for katie, as she is being
hunted down by the 
scientologist sea-soldiers
whose drones parade the...

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Spare change was rare at our house when I was a lad,
But you could bet on it, when I got a quarter from my Dad,
I didn't blow it on mundane things like a baseball or...

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Many are the boyhood fantasies gazing into a cozy winter's blaze,
Or watching vagabond clouds scudding on lazy summer days,
Or in deep reverie with glazed eyes holding his fishing pole,
As he idles away a summer afternoon...

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Everyone is so quiet
Up to this point Maestro S_______ has conducted Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis
    magnificently!
But!    At this point S___________ seems nervous
And     with good reason
The next...

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For Vienna, by request.

Something has gone terribly wrong in my garden today,
My tomatoes are all growling at me with big teeth on display.

And when I investigated I got a big surprise,
‘Cause they were staring back...

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Life on a death bed

Bending boughs of flaxen curls 
Loose tendrils frame and swirl
In the wind and rain
Liquid snakes stain
Your cheeks
Black streaks
A masterpiece in mixed media of life and death
White moonlight lights the ball of...

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Monster Trees 

Monster trees reaching down through insane skies like spiders,
They see something coming in the green benign stretches,
We are the onion ring bearers wearing dark-day secrets.
We know what happens when bearded eyes shut tight,
When...

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Poor little Moon King
trapped inside a gilded cage
within the marble prison walls
the cage is painted
and the marble held up with balsa wood
a fake fairy-tale façade
castles in the clouds
ladies in classical poses
battles never won
nor even fought
locked...

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single malt sanity,  sanitized, ionized,
   with a little communion salt. 

sprinkle replace, sprinkle to taste,
sprinkle with haste to the holy face.

  yet still ground balsa wood icons
perfectly semitrical work to preserve
lesser...

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A single orange leaf
twists and turns 'bove vibrant vales -
espying a shadowed glimpse
of nature's palette as she sails.
A variegated dreamer
drifts beyond a wooded realm -
'tween doughty boughs of balsa
floating o’er oak and elm.

She glides along...

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A work in progress is a wonder
No wonder God loves us so
In Baalalala the natives make gods
From ivory soap
You can never be too clean on Sundays
Deities come in all shapes and sizes 
Pocket Jesus is...

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Joe is an old, withered tiger.
Stripes of balsa wood and matches
walking in a burning ring of hellfire
His shameless tamers snapping whips. 
From deep blue state shadows
to keep afloat the latest ruse. 
Feeding him grade school...

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NOW AND THEN

Tell me how you know it's now
by lines across an old man's brow?
Before it came, it’s come and went.
A wispy trail, a non- event.
Found within or found without 
It always seems there is...

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My balsa wood float rides ripple and wave
My bait unappealing today
Fingers frostbitten but I shall be brave
As I try to catch something to weigh

The cormorant seems to be doing okay
The seagull is eating his fill
The...

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