Long Bassett Poems

2/6/21

Since the Jurassic
Time continually passes
Animals and people smoking or eating different grasses
Staying active
Instead of remaining passive
The population now massive
I roll around solo or among the masses
Seeing it crystal clear, or it's fogging up my glasses
In...

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Ethel Hurst

1889 – 1918

I saw the town rise up
Like a single blade of grass after a spring rain.
I played a multitude of hop-scotch games
With my best friend Hannah on Penn Street.
And sipped a hundred ice...

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In Cities in Flight
transformations are chronicled over generations.
It can make us cry
out for the genius occurring
now and in our past. How
the unseen, unknown participant
was made known to himself
through devotion to those outside himself. He
guides his...

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I can't recall the last time I've had a good night's rest.
It ain't because I'm stressed or restless or depressed.
Nor is it the fitful snorin' of my spouse sprawlin' by my side.
It's that consarned nocturnal...

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They are out selling the poppies
In this run up to Remembrance Day
But they’ve confused Remembrance
With doing things the cheap way.

When I joined the colours I knew
I could be sent off to war
I just didn’t realise...

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I want to forget the headlines
Or stated by the news team
Another soldier shot dead
Makes me want to scream

The family must  be distraught
With it blasted  on the news
Do the news editors ever give a thought
Of how...

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QUIET TIME HEARTBEAT THOUGHTS AFTER  A VERY LONG DAY
After A Long Day
Going Here, Going There
Your Love Makes It All Easy
Like Water Flowing Freely With A Smile
An Angela Bassett Tear Fall Down My Eye After...

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For years we have gone hunting.
I've loved sitting next to him in his deer blind
or sitting quietly in my own.

Now that Boomer came into our lives
I see all living animals as having feelings
and I can't...

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Sediments of yester-years stir from within....
Each event containing a certain knowledge
    that once was blind to thee.
Yet the mind contains a certain capacity;   
    Allowing thee to...

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Stagnant in a world
                               ...

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The first king size bed was fashioned nearly two thousand years ago,
Not by Thomasville, Broyhill or Bassett, manufacturers we all know.

There was no pillow-top mattress made by Sealy or Simmons for the bed,
Nor a chenille...

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The first king size bed was fashioned nearly two-thousand years ago,

Not by Thomasville, Broyhill or Bassett, producers that we all know.

There was no pillow-top mattress made by Sealy or Simmons for the bed,

Nor a chenille...

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Bloody Bassett Hound

According to facts which are well-rooted
To be a fine poet, I am properly suited
With an imagination which is astounding
Like some fathers who were to be founding.

I'm like a horny, big, bloody basset hound
Who...

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how desperate
  the disparate
   the they that are
	seperate
   and hypocrite
whose bassett eyes
      have weary arms
 and longest hours nocturnal
are gardeners of distraction
   ...

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