Long Bessie Poems

My darling sweet sweet  love Pete
its been over three long months seems like eternity now since you departed and my world stopped
And my sun became cold
 
I miss you more with each breath and...

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I lived on a rolling green farm, and I had a love of astronomy;
And peered at skies of sleepless nighttime, so vast and starry.

It had for long been my hobby, and I had a powerful...

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Monday, Monday what a start to a beautiful summer holidays day 
The kids are on their summer term holidays, so, hip, hip, hooray

I get some time off work; just so to look after the little...

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Brilliant, grandiloquent, magnificent, trenchant...
albeit modest word zealot

Writing prompts burst asunder
snap, crackle, and sweet Mary poppin
within me scrambled noggin
witnessing yours truly to blunder
blindly along this dark and stormy night
deafening soundcloud roared
with apocalyptic thunder
'course only audible to...

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Santa's New Team

Christmas Eve was coming
There was plenty to be done
There were protocols to follow
There were programs to be run

Presents needed wrapping
Elves had duties of their own
They've been doing it for centuries
They could call Christmas...

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Christmas Eve was coming
There was plenty to be done
There were protocols to follow
There were programs to be run

Presents needed wrapping
Elves had duties of their own
They've been doing it for centuries
They could call Christmas in by...

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Don’t worry about being thinner
Get yourself off down the pub
Then go home to a good British dinner,
Of British traditional grub

Delicious roast beef of old England
Served up with a thick Yorkshire pud
With roast spuds and cabbage...

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The Zoo keeper fussed, he cried and he cussed!

For the Elephant, gone astray!

“She was there last night!” He said in distress!

But isn’t in there today!

 

He looked on high, and he looked on low,

The elephant...

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A TRUE STORY.....(honest engine!!)  This is fine country living !!
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T'was the night after New Years, and all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
The stockings and tree stored away with...

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I'll tell you a tale of Majestique the Bull,
In the Kingdom of Cattle that boy had some pull,
The ladies all loved him; the men showed respect,
Because of his brawn and his great intellect.

He travelled the...

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(True story...!!)      
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Bessie Trissell

1891-1914

Alas my friends,

I finally know the truth now,

So here it is, straight out,

The real truth, which resides in a world,

Brimming with insidious lies.

My dear friends, come,

Come to this aged receptacle of the truly alive.

Shh!...

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Bessie M. Good
1890-1913

By the time I was 21 years along,
I had given birth to two girls,
Nadine and Ruth, my precious babies.
Both had eyes of tea green,
With perfect fragrant cheeks, 
Softly redolent of sweet-smelling spice-
That special...

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February is the month that we celebrate our black race,
People from the past who set our pace.
Those who should have been placed in our history book,
But for some reason they were over looked.
Born into slavery...

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He comes so faithfully when called,
   our veterinary doctor friend,
to our dear family of cows;
   upon his help, we do depend.

The birthing of our calves amaze
   him more than...

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I am a cow 
Of course most of you reading this are also cows
But I have heard a rumor that those creatures
Who walk on two legs
Humans
Have learned to read 
(moo)

I can only say 
What is...

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Bessie Blount, lady-in-waiting, gave him a bastard son.
Catherine was first true wife, who birthed his daughter.

Anne Boleyn, lady-in-waiting, caused king to divorce.
The king wants what he wants, a legitimate son.

Henry the 8th
what a treat
ain’t he...

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I am black and I have the ability to glorify the King
I am great and in believing in him, I have authority over all things
I am the Father and Mother of past, present and future
Peacemakers,...

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I shook my head
Knew the day’d be messy
Some poor sap
Was marrying my Aunt Bessie

She’d slept with half of Brooklyn
Flaunting her exploits all through town
The mayor, the banker, the deli clerk
Even the birthday party clown

A wedding...

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"Death In The Streets”

By Stark Hunter

Oh Cabman! Please take me up to 42nd street!

I got a show at six, and lines to learn.

Bessie, May and Tiny are singing “The Holy Roller Burn.”

Sinister creeps silently peep...

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Tribute To Georgie Cat


Dear George, our cat grand-baby, now you're gone;
our hearts are saddened on this rainy day.
Your family found out this early dawn
the angels came to now take you away.

We do remember how you...

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So many more. Just a sampling of favorites, per contest instructions.
For each poet I have included a sampling of titles in parentheses.

THREE OF MY FAVORITES

Gershon Wolf

Gershon lands me in stitches.
In his wise and funny hands,
I...

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If you look behind his story 
there’s a woman you will find.
Not in the struggle for the glory
but with a duty on her mind.

Now meet The Women of Tuskegee.
Tuskegee Airmen they are named.
Lost within the...

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Nessie, Wattie and Kin
 
A full ten years before Nessie was first sighted
Colonel Arthur Trimble visited Loch Watten
A dark, looming shape Trimble’s interest ignited
It’s now speculated Nessie has some twins
 
Oceanographers say that before the...

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