Long Bandanas Poems

North Richland Hills grew a rainbow I wanted to hold in my hand
Wand for wishing I don’t know what to reach-ask for?
Plethora is sunshine below the bow along your Texas land
Donned a different approach—your rainbow...

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A man named Ben stood on a slope looking at the gates of hell,
He swore they’d never turn back, him and his best friend Del.
They knew the bandits came this way, they’d left a sloppy...

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A Dragnet RippOFF
DUM de DUM DUM de DUM da DUM
“SGT FrYdaY the man came in the office and eye told him to wait there is that 
right?”
“That's right Bill.” 
“Captain Gannon to you son.”
 “The...

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The industrial hull of the SUV 
Sways with the slightest wind taps 
And pothole shoves. Popeye’s signs, 
Golden shell displays, the lingering smell 
Of Premium-grade gasoline. 
The prices are Down, but our gas meter still...

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How dare you show up 
unannounced
Changing the way I live
my best life
Coming all up and thru here
confining me inside the prison
of my own insanity
I want to break from these walls
and defy everything they 
say about...

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Outside a quaint town in fair Vermont,
by my family’s vacation home,
is a small field with fences and sign,
in the warm month’s it’s a place to go.

They have a flea market on weekends,
rows of tents pitched...

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Cowboys in the Badlands


The horses need be reined tightly
lest they show better judgment
and head back to the barn.  The
cowboys, driven by the dust cloud
of following hoof beats, were less smart.
A Gila monster smirks as...

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Roy Jerden,Roy Jerden
Join me in the stable
Leave that xmas tree
Leave that xmas light
Rider is no parlourmaid
The saddle is yawning
Join me in the stable 
Today we shall ride
To mountains and the hills
To rivers and the streams
Now...

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Raindrops on roses weren’t her thing. 
They were okay.

But patchouli and pine 
Curry and cloves 
Burnt orange dusks fading to midnight blue slumber 
Alto strings and reeds weaving symphonic tapestries in minor keys 
Woolen ponchos...

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Stories, tales...More truth!
More cozy boots; Its winter: super cold
Doctor prescribed me with meds: syrups too popping pills and no love potions, learned the hard way that life leans on you when everything seems hazy!
Falling down...

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THEIR OUT IN THE STREETS SHOOTING GUNS LIKE THEIR JESSE JAMES
BULLETS FLYING EVERYWHERE HITTING DIFFERENT PLACES
LITTLE CHILDREN RUNNING SQURRY SCARED OUT THEIR MIND
PARENTS RUNNING AFTER THEM TRYING TO PROTECT THEM
GANG HAVE TAKEN OVER OUR NEIGHBORHOODS
AND...

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Refuse to hang the innocent
While your gang acquits the guilty
In a tooth for a tooth pronouncement
You state in collusion with the mighty.

Accuse with the ruse in your news dissidents
Whipped into submission
To the coercion of incidents
Incorporated...

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ALONG FOR THE RIDE

We race through streams of mud, looking like bank bandits,
our bandanas fastened around mouth and nose. Open-air
vehicles, look like skeletons, and the roar of its engine leaves
no room for conversation. But I...

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The hoes
The projects
Always think you flyy,
Yet ya mother struggles
Father has two jobs
Don’t have enough money
And you still get robbed
Walk thru the hood
Niggaz always stare
Look left, Look right
Cops always there
Run up in peoplez house
Don’t even have...

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And when will the tides turn against confident indifference?!

When will humanity cease
To throw cats against curiosity’s silver coated dagger

Another played out song
Another dramatic lyric
Shifting embellished overtones
With deteriorating tact

They spit posthumous awakenings
As divinity laced smiles, wither...

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Aunty, this cancer is just as stubborn as you are.

But I won’t let you go.
I’m gonna pull these
Dark blue sheets
Off your dormant dreams.

I’m gonna trap your worries
In little glass jars, aunty,
And let them light up...

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I used to study faces
now I gaze at masks and bandanas
can't tell if they're beautiful or plain
sane or madmen...
Since this new age plague began...
gaits seem to have a bit more verve
perhaps more purpose...
My how things...

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Sitting in a cave
on a hot dirty day
an outlaw hide away.
They laughed and carried on
about the bounty they taken away.
Watching the horizon so carefully
as to be not taken away.
Polishing
and loading
they preparing
for another raiding.
Jumping on their...

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“THE COLOR OF MY HEART’S BLOOD”



somewhere over the rainbow
skies are blue.

since you’ve been gone
the color of a forgotten
love stays inside the lines

and it isn’t blue.

I’ll run my fingers through
your hair again,
we will laugh again,
we will...

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The beautiful ones -in bandanas and green shirts
tucked hair behind ears in chestnut to hide
eye's blue as skies on a spring innuendo
back lit by southern suns yet on the rise

(~An artist could sketch you in...

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When Scorpions Come Out

Scorpions chase me in my head
Across continents, through rain forests black
Large and small bodies, brown appendages attack 
Wear red bandanas around their necks for luck
They carry knives, pop tunes and sing
Like Madonna...

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