Long Boarding house Poems

III.
She settled into life the best she could,
wanted for nothing, but found her life boring.
Thankfully her pa wasn’t much around,
when he wasn’t at work, he was whoring.

Not many folks spoke kindly about him,
but he had...

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Wanton women of Whitechapel
Desperate and destitute
Weakened from want
Shrunken stomachs barren of bread
Dying from disease in dingy dosshouses
Selling themselves on the streets for shillings
to buy beer, a bed for the night
or a bonny new bonnet
to enable...

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It was now growing dark as the sun was going down
When a stranger rode into Soup Creek, a frontier town
No one could see his face, he was all dressed in black
An old boy was heard...

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41.
        Resist I Must

Pride is hubris run amok
To rot the soul within.
It rises from the depths of hell...
The deadliest of sins.

It is the snake that slithers so
To pervert...

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Tom Sharing Aphorisms
(old adages)
Composed: by Miracle Man
11-9-2019

I’ve been told, when younger,
”I could start a fight in an empty House.”
Because often “I would cloud up and rain knuckles,”
and later “was a sight for sore eyes”
Sometimes “I...

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Let me tell you a story
Many years ago I bought a puppy
Displayed at the street corner for sale
Caged alone under the sun, hungry and frail.

When the street vendor handed him to me
He licked my hands,...

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In 1914 Billy Sing heard the rallying bugle's call 
Our last man and shilling it will be our country's all
They needed more recruits and wanted them all true blue
But he had a Chinese father's blood...

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Takes a gallon of coffee to wake him,
But it’s sweet when his axe hits the spot,
While the mist slips away from the mountain,
And the day hardens dusty and hot.
He contends with the bothersome thicket,
Stays alert...

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She remained silent amidst the squeaks of the bats
Sleeping on the hostel bed, she dreamt of winging like a dove. 
Her tears were blended with the blood of her chopped childhood. 
Her mother's lap seemed...

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More Texas Idioms
(that have been around)
“since Heck was a pup”
Composed: by Tom 
1/11/2021
 
Heck was “fat as a boarding house cat” and that’s no bunk,
some thought that he, was “tougher than stewed skunk.”
They said never...

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The Real Truth
With Texas Idioms
Miracle Man
October 22, 2023

Saturday nights in Haskell was always a battle,
some thought Ruff might be “all hat and no Cattle”.

He oft searched for Jack to settle some long ago spat,
Ruff was...

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I hear that woman crying in her room each night.
Why is she doing that?  It gives me a fright.
Her husband calms her down to silence.
What they do each night does not make sense.
This is...

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My husband and I were newly wed and cash poor. It was Easter weekend and the weather unusually fine for the time of year. Both loving the outdoors, we decided to cycle, circumnavigating our county...

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There was a beach in Penang once,
it is there now, but for us,
only in this moment and no other.

You and I walk along a golden ray of sunset.
I think the small boarding house
has gone somewhere...

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listen
I never wanted it to be this way
the one room without space
living in the emptiness of a boarding house
I tell myself
the future is yet to be determined
there is always tomorrow
a new day holding promise
don't allow...

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Man WORKING- Sitting Under the Autumn Sun

Envision concrete steps;
3 @ 8”inches each;
A man at home, alone;
Dog lying down to the left of him;
Alone;
These two, enjoying the autumn views
Tree’s waving leaves, squirrels running here and there;
Green...

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Some instances 
Her beautiful face is covered
With a governing growl as a mask 
over us,
our sickness or defeat makes
her heart melts and tears roll down her face before ours,
Love, care, trust, and cleanliness were the...

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In 1920 he came on a boat 
from Ireland and found
his way through Ellis Island.

He found a room 
in a boarding house
catering to his kind and

went looking for a job
but found instead signs
in windows saying...

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