Long Bingham Poems

Reveren’ Carlton Whitney was the pastor of our church, and someone I looked up to as a child. 
Six foot six, with piercing eyes, a booming voice, and yet…his disposition, thankfully - was mild.

The very...

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“I’m sorry that it’s been so long,” the old man told the tombstones, scanning them that brisk fall day, in 1969.
“It’s not that I’ve forgotten you.    It’s not that I’m not proud...

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Woven are these pages in poetic verse,
With bare threads of our deepest feelings,
You will find laughter, tears and remorse,
and words of wisdom, prayer and healings.

What compels their pens to shed poetic ink?
What forlorn moment inspired...

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9/11... In MEMORIAM.

The thousands of valuable people in an instant we lost!
Twas a most painful, national cost.
Our country won't be that loved again,
It's turned into...

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This is based on a truly sad story from the late 1930s - 


Late one August afternoon - the year was nineteen ten - a hero - from my point of view - was quietly...

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I watched as the old train chugged heavily up the hill.
   Puffing and puffing the smoke completely shadowing J. Gastons’ saw and 
paper mill.
Then I saw what looked to be another train coming...

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Four years ago today
9/11 rang in our ears
Our Nation still cries a river
Into a sea of tears

Patrick Driscoll 70, was retired
Jane Folger 73, retired as well
Toshiya Kuge was a student
When the Twin Towers fell

Husbands and...

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A long time ago the devil rebelled,
caused some of God's angels to go into Hell.
He thought that he could be like God.
His pride dug the pit that removed him from God.
Now he goes around seeking...

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SOUL OF JULIA

By the golden bough I watch, Julia,
through the winds of darkness.
You touch the golden leaves with your strange smile.
Where do your thoughts drift on this winter's night?
To the dark forest where there is...

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And do I dream of love?
Yes, often and always;
the possibility of finding love haunts me,
but I realize that in this world of illusion
nothing is as it would first appear.
In our world to have is to...

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Assailed upon all sides; trapped, like a rat without his cheese.
Though I wore quite fancy shoes, there were no socks upon my feet,
When I fought the heathens and, met defeat, at the Pillar Of Muhamete.
Through...

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Is God a church of forgotten people?
Is God a loveless creed?
Does God reach down to the masses
and love them in their need?
People forget how to be people,
singing familiar, unfamiliar songs;
hiding their fears and guilt
behind their...

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The old ones have all gone now
up those Golden Stairs.
There's hay stacked for the horses in the barn.
They're grubbing up potatoes
and stacking corn stalks high
'cause Bertha's coming home tonight
up those Golden Stairs.

Willie is laughing and...

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REASON FOR THE NATIVITY

Streets filled with confusion and gloom.
When Jesus was born, there was no room.
Caesar Augustus had decreed
each family return to their own country
to pay their taxes, from debt to be freed.

So, Joseph took...

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HOW DEEP IS YOUR TRUST?

What's it like to die? asked the child
looking into her father's eyes.
He held her hand tightly,
and walked away from his wife's grave
bringing the child with him.
Death is the same thing as...

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There were two old women in a town.
The healthy one often wore a frown.
She never helped an earthly soul,
nor saw the beauty of life unfold.
All she thought about was herself.
How she could save and keep...

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It's no longer good enough
to be American and free.
People now coming to America
imagine riches without loyalty.
It's a "me only" government.
It's a "me only" job.
And the people in power
use their position to rob.
It's a curriculum emphasizing
color...

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World War II teachers taught children patriotism.
Now America doesn't instruct them
about that "ism."
Instead we debate if allegiance to the flag
is a worthwhile custom or merely a drag.
Americans must be politically correct,
but the President determines whom...

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CHRISTMAS SHOPPING

Before the days of Christmas,
I shopped everywhere.
I couldn't stand the music.
I couldn't stand the glare.
The thing that I most wanted
was to go out on a walk.
God listens to me best
when I am free to...

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CHRISTMAS SHOPPING

Before the days of Christmas
I shopped everywhere.
I couldn't stand the music.
I couldn't stand the glare.
The thing that I most wanted
was to go out on a walk.
God listens to me best
when I am free to...

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timing is everything
time now to say it,
had 11, 77, and 175
had what you had,
been shown what you saw,
heard what you heard,
told what you told,
they'd have done
what you did

still, no matter
self-destiny is
inherent in us all,
most apparent...

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OUR LORD IS COMING BACK

You search to find new meaning
to who and what you are.
You travel to gain knowledge
from a distant star.
You go to the moon
looking for a friend,
but the truth is only found within,
within,
the...

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Now is the hour for us
to come to the aid of our country.
Do not trust in most politicians.
They are trying to DESTROY AMERICA
like they did in 9/11
at the World Trade Center.
They will do it again
if...

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WHERE THE BAD ANIMALS GO

One day I asked nine-year-old Keven,
Do all of God's animals go to Heaven?"
He said, Janet, I don't know,
but I think ordinary logic will show
that some of God's animals do go,
and others...

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The great God Almighty showed a man in a dream one night
that he'd die out in the gutter if he didn't change his plight,
with ants crawling in his mouth and flies sucking up his blood.
Just...

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