Long Bobo Poems

It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.
Jim Harrison (1937 - 2016) - The Road Home

 
First Bobo, a cocker spaniel, 
I remember only...

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OH ! WHAT A VALENTINE !

As the clock tickles away horarily
On the day set aside for Romeo
In the heart of a Juliet
I waited , I did  waited 
For a once Golden Dace of a...

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METRO BOULOT DODO  -  GOING HOME AFTER WORK



Bobo               going home to a clown
Cocoa      ...

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Bobo and Coco were playing in the park
but had to hurry home before it got dark
deciding to take a shortcut through the cemetery 
when they ran into a man called Harry
he stopped them both "dead"...

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Our Friend Bobo
By Curtis Johnson

More than fifty years ago, there was a drowning in my little home town.
Back then, we chopped cotton by the day, and picked cotton by the pound.

For us, there was no...

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A Rottweiler  Shepard mix
longsuffering had proven to be
With the Doberman pup, a red one,
won on a gambling spree

Rocky the mix and BoBo
 coexisted for a time
As any two male dogs can manage
till BoBo reached...

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Darling,

Forty seven years ago, young and in love.
We fell in love on the Bobo-lo Boat.
A mutual acquaintance arranged our date.
I was eighteen and you were twenty.
You took my breath away as our eyes met,
And I...

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Tickets were free and given to me by a clown
Come by and see the house of mirrors he said
I will gladly take you in saying with a grin
His name was BoBo the clown he had...

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A Little Helper Clown

I have a little helper that came to visit me one day.
Soon after he got here, we became very attached.
He follows me everywhere and always checks on me.

I call him, my little...

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Everybody wants to be champion
Everybody got a plan
Everything's signifacent
Peoplez, my people!
Take your assignment
and task!
Get in line and do what's
asked of you.
Sh$t I have been doing that
This way since they let me
In here.
Hungry people, needs to...

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Everybody wants to be champion
Everybody got a plan
Everything's signifacent
Peoplez, my people!
Take your assignment
and task!
Get in line and do what's
asked of you.
Sh$t I have been doing that
This way since they let me
In here.
Hungry people, needs to...

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 Very many years ago,
 In the land of rich men called NO,
 Bobo, a poor man, had nowhere to go,
"Give me a little space to stay", he pleaded, but lo,
"Your place is out of...

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NEW DAY

Its a new month, a June-day
Filled with tricks, full of games like May
Birds are chirping and it looks gay
 The Sun so bright and it looks dream-full
 Everyone looks beautiful,how wonderful
All thanks to God,...

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He was born, he was happy, he was perfect.
He was sick.
He was strong, he was a fighter.
He was a brother, he was a goofball, he was a genius.
He was given a short sentence on this...

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There is a baby cub Bobo who has lost his family and sow
His mother bear is gone, unable to teach him what to know
Alone he sits or stands in the grass or grabs onto a...

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Tanga, tawag sa mga taong nagkakamali
Pumili ng iibigin, iyon pang manloloko
Seryosong mangingibig, iniwasan, nilayuan
Kaya ngayon ikaw at pupulutin sa kangkungan

Piniling mga kaibigan ay mga adik at sugarol
Kaya magiging katulad mo na rin sila sa huli
Ayaw...

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Momentous meteor shower of words
Plethora of metered color absurd
Rainbows falling to the ground
With syllable shakes and bobo refrains
Lamentable lemon sunsets of pain

Our God stuns with just one sound

Err not, for he certainly beautifies
Wing’d articulation of...

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 Bobo is his name, an astral body
his visage is of blue and yellow slime,
there is a blemish on his left hand,
his delight is to dampen his grey hair.
He is from Satura the planet,
he is...

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You must think I'm Bobo the fool,
coming to me with that grinning lie
No, we ain't tight,
no, I'm not your tool
Sister please, don't you even try
Let me lay it on you straight:
Girl, you ain't no friend...

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