Long Blow me down Poems

In the dark of night a wind took hold,
With powers charged to shake the sky,
By moody swings of gods up high,
Their breath alone enraged and bold.

In the dark of night history spoke,
Of a world alive...

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Now I don't know if you've heard
Of the Baked Bean competition
Where contestants eat as much as can
In just twenty five minutes

Up they lined ready to start
To gobble up these dishes
Standing by were huge black pots
Ready...

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Half opened eyes are forced shut from the glare of the sun,
(Just build up your strength and try again).
On first reckoning something feels different, something is missing,
It's just hard to pin point something you cannot...

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--- Storm Surge ---

 Beyond the sweating window
   Howls a wind as if in pain.
 The tapping of the droplets grow
   Passing way to pounding rain.

 Trees once motionless and straightly
...

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'Tis well known that when medicating cats they can become rather crabby,
So, this free advice is provided when feeding pills to the family tabby.
As if holding a baby, cradle the cat in the crook of...

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Sothern Romeo (second edition)
by Cate Rock

It hurts inside,
These bottled feelings
I just can't hide.
My beating heart a time bomb
INDEED.
it's my southern Romeo I so desperately need.
just someone to rely on...
A pain that rips my heart in...

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I'll bet this set of rusty shears have a story they could tell,
of the loneliness and broken backs in a land that's hot as hell,
where hopes and dreams mirrored lives that these shearers led,
here among...

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Oh the air is not so sweet today, 
Nor, I fear, will it be tomorrow, 
For disgruntled love has left the fray
Of tortured wills that brought both sorrow.

Are yesterdays now just memories, 	
(Though some still...

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Darkness crawls across the land
Sleepy children lay down their heads
If only sleep could come so easily
To those with wondering heads

The stars are out
Though clouds hide then from shining bright
Now wishes to comfort 
Lonely travels on...

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Darling you need to get your ears tested
I was hoping tonight, to be sexually molested
I asked you for sex as I gave a sensuous moan
Blow me down, you went and got a saxophone

Same result I...

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In the September breeze
Wind whips hard through the leaves
And the branches bow down
Spilling leaves to the ground
There's a chill in the air
Brightness shines everywhere
And I'm up to my knees
In leaves from drifting trees

Every way that...

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Leaving the foot hills of Ohio
The farm life
My family
Wasn't hard to do

I knew I could make a difference
and to myself I had to prove


It was 1983
I felt so alive
The sweet smell of magnolias
filled the gentle...

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The wolf

     When I was a child,
     I dreamt of white picket fences,
     And cuddling on a coach.
     Long...

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I Thought Irma Was Over
By Franklin Price
9/11/2017 – 5:26 PM

I thought Irma was over
When she turned right at the coast
To cross the width of Florida
With an eye I thought was toast

She  made it although...

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Dearest downfall, constant fiend,
You seek my out, in darkest dreams.
You know my faults and play them well,
Accompany me to planes of hell.

Longest time, you hide and watched,
Build me up then throw me off.
Debary thick, it...

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THE WEST WIND

Blow you westward wind, blow betide,
Blow upon the western sphere, blow a gale
Rout the shacks on the range, the ‘scrapper  a tremor;
Let wail the pine boulevard and the Indian stream screams,
Blow, the...

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TV Reporters
By Franklin Price
4/1/2015

TV reporters in the field
They're there to make the news
Must be in the thick of it
Must have the best of views

Expose themselves to elements
To gunshots and to gore
To show you they are...

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14 July 2010

The Sea Rover


Moving sideways or careening
All hands hoay and avast ye
Sea dogs and landlubbers go on pillaging
Jolly Roger is flapping guarded by cannon and artillery

Pistol, daggers, and doubloon among things inside the sea-chest
Walk...

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CENSORED: a kind of unfinished symphony


This hammer made my finger sting
The flaming, silly, soppy thing
Now I’ve hit my poor old thumb
Oh my giddy aunt, ho hum

My right leg’s broke below the knee
Goodness gracious, pity me
I...

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AUTUMN

The shiny green leaves on the trees in the park,
Are changing their colour each day.
To yellow and orange, crispy and brown,
And the wind has started to blow them down
Where they land at my feet without...

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Yer briny whore
akin to boar
wit' mangy hide 'n scurvy-pocked
chomped 'n chewed
me black 'n blue
wit' carnassial chompers as of croc

Be curs'd, yer nit  
me ample bits
equated ter yer own be nowt 
yerz be carnivorous ...

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News spins around my head.
Killings, a brave puppy dog
saving a kitten,
rape & heroic deeds
done by cop and villain.
October surprises loom,
we are led by the nose
to suppose
he lied
or tried hard to tell the truth.
Forgive me for...

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If I built you a castle out of sand

Would you know each grain is a piece of my heart

It will never crumble, or fall apart

Created by love, forever it will stand.

The winds of time will...

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A hero defeats the villain who is evil and wrong 
They are never weak but always strong
I don’t have superpowers
Oh ok so I can’t jump over buildings and towers
I have no wings to fly
Sorry I...

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