Long Bea Poems

My Daughter's Smile
By Linda Hays-Gibbs 

There is a light, a light so sweet, comes from a smile beaming out from deep-within a soul, of infinite warmth, a burning coal alight with dawn, a tune to...

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A Princess sat on her throne in despair whilst her father bellowed “is there a handsome prince out there?” 

“We have waited so long, as a matter of fact, I don’t care how he looks...

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Two old friends
(who haven’t seen each other
in quite some time)
running into each other on the 
corner of Linwood and Clairmount
— A Detroit westside encounter


Man, it’s good seeing you Joe,
how is ...

Aw, Moms doing just fine....

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+++++  TV TRAVELS  +++++
                  
Oh where, oh where shall I travel today
Maybe 1940's where life portrayed
In...

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It had only been a few days
Still unfamiliar with my grief, (it was my first time, you see...)
I was such a novice to the proper routine
Of condolences, phone calls, and flowers
Pity in the air, ...a...

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(alternately known as the Doubting Thomas Crown 
Taj Mahal Cupid Affair)
-  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -...

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I sat down to watch the radio

There was nothing on TV

I have two hundred channels

But there was sweet F.A for me

I could have watched one channel

And learned to fricasse

A chicken raised on wild grains

By a...

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Dear Mother

Dear Mother; I knew that it had to be that night. You didn't know
yet, but you were already a mother. You didn't know I was there,
that for me a new life was beginning. it...

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It's that time of day 'gain,' it's noon,
And, I'm still howlin' at the moon,
As friends are comin' soon,
It's that time of day 'gain, it's noon.

I'm at the window, I'm rarin',
I'm in the mirror, I'm glarin',
Got...

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I remember yesterday
When I was young and free
The world was mine to conquer
And love was waiting for me
No dark clouds hovered o’er my head
I didn’t count the days
All was right in my little world
In so...

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A Visit by the Mother-in-Law

By Elton Camp

My mother-in-law lives in another state
Her annual visits I most intensely hate
For her daughter, I wasn’t good enough
So, from the old crone I get lots of guff

“To Mother you...

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Am aware that am a cheat,
There is no need for you to repeat.
Despite there might be some facts,
Judge me not!  When to know the 'Why' you just can't.

The self comes first,
To look after "IT"...

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*Image of Betty White by Pinterest.



Betty White RIP



Alas!
She Passed,

Betty,
Firstly,

Then White,
Finite,

Icon,
Like On,

TV,
Marquee,

AM,
FM,

Invest,
Her Best,

Female,
Prevail,

Guinness,
Booked As,

Premiere,
Career,

Shadows,
Gameshows,

Mary,
Murray,

Ted And,
Sue Ann,

High-Strung,
Sharp-Tongue,

Antics,
Frantics,

Leaven,
Seven,

Golden,
Stolen,

Bea, Rue,
Stan Too,

Miles And,
Nylund,

Fourth Gal,
Estelle,

Neighbor,
Failure,

Drop Dead,
She Did,

Gun Shot,
In Shock,

Hearts Race,
Shot Vase,

Herring,
War Scene,

Rose Tell,
Naught Well,

Funny,
Zany,

Skip Skit,
Lost It,

Girls Said,
And Begged,

Show Say,
No Way,

Were Told,
Too...

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Another Easter spent
feasting on Jelly Bean Martinis,
sculpting butter lambs
with Nana’s mastiff Escort
snoring by tabletop fire.

Aunt Bea smoked lemongrass,
shading wooden eggs 
with Dappled Willow shrubs.

A whimsical Slovakian cousin
suggested we whip each other with willow rods,
sprinkle ice-choked...

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“We made the spring cut!”  Said Rose the tattered gown.
“I was worried for a while, till she pulled me from the toss pile.”

 
“You’ve still a lot of wear left.”  Said Bea the...

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She wakes at dawn, clock set for eight
she tried to rest- but work won't wait
cooking, cleaning, coffee to brew
“Oh without me, what would they do?”

Breakfast done, she clears the table
bustles down to meet with Mable
whose...

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Bea moved her children's pool 
to give the grass a rest.
Emptied, cleaned, refilled it blue
innocent as summer sky.

Squashed flat, 
the bedraggled body of a rat
lay on the yellowed lawn. 
Its cold contaminated corpse, 
a seething...

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Music was Grandma Bea’s life.  She lived for it.
Lifting her spirits more than a bit.
Funeral was today, family here
Remembering and smiling at her antics dear.
 
She raised a brood, eighteen in all.
All sons alive,...

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A:  I’ll call him AARUSH, ray of sun;
B:  And she’ll be BEA, a happy one;

C:  COLCHAS is bronze from head to toes;
D:  His oaktree brother, DARA, grows;

E:  Alive is EFA,...

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Can you remember Lost in Space, Bonanza and Gunsmoke?
How about Leave it to Beaver—all the fun they`d poke?
The Dick VanDyke Show made us laugh, and so did Mr Ed.
And all the married couples had to...

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TO DANTE ALIGHIERI                                ...

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Visiting Bea

Might you be her son she asked
Each week I see you here
Oh no, I’m not her son I said
I’m just a volunteer

“Just a volunteer” she said
As I turned to walk away
I wonder if you’d...

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BEA
I see you now and your smile
Lips parted and your black hair
Hair that smells of freshness
I wonder if you see me
And miss me as the sun
Eyes blue and loving only you
And those famous lips
Do you...

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Another day Orkie went out for a swim
Around the inlet rim
It was blowing , the beginning of a gale
When he ran into another pod of whales

They started to sing a song
That came through the water...

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To My Friends on Poetry Soup

Thank you for all your lovely comments
On my poems which you have read
I just can’t keep up with replies
So I’ll thank all here instead
You’ve shown such hospitality
To the newbie that...

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