Long Bogey Poems

{Three o'clock on a December afternoon,
the sky is opaque as my nature has stood out, the rain drizzles down my windows and I am distinctly reminded how it once drizzled down my back; the lacquers...

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This is the story of Gustybot Melly
His really small nose and his very large belly
He'd finished the biscuits, the cake and the jelly
And munched all the crisps like the ones on the telly

And when he...

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BAT SONG 

(This Song was written in 2009 for a dramatised Rap Music & Dance Group in Rural South Africa. They wanted an amusing song with a message incorporating an unusual rural image. It unfortunately...

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What pushes my pen in this whimsical notch of the world?

   Something whispers to me like an elder dream....
  
   and the trees hang arbored 'oer a little stream of...

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This is awkward the way stars smiled at me tonight
they had a peculiar twinkle in their bleary eyes
the night mist also melted a just bit too more
getting emotional that my soul had abruptly left me...

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The players come out to play. The audience gathered around, cheering them on.
One by one they take acknowledgment . The speaker motions to settle down.
He steps up to the tee with confidence. Ahead of him...

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(the overhead railway in Berlin with a stop either side the Wall, one in the East, one the West, to be ridden with caution.)

I never took the S Bahn
you could end up on the other...

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Where is Everyone
by Robert J (Bob) Moore (c) 2020

I went out into the street
but there was no one there to greet
everyone just stayed inside
from Coronavirus they did hide

The panic had spread far and near
and everywhere...

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Fundering children,
shouts, screams and nonsense;
Life jumping out, 
assaulting the mundanity;
Grumplebums moaning,
forgetting their youth;
Childhood a memory
now long forgotten;
Bogies and bums,
giggles and farts;
Let the kids play,
be rude and get dirty;
Let them make words up,
create their own language;
The...

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So nice of you to mention 
from your lofty Bully Pulpit
the bravery and sacrifice
of honor driven men.
Spewing verbose platitudes 
that smell of self inclusion,
when pack straps, boots, and pistol belts
have never chaffed your skin.

The microphone...

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"Waltz Across Texas With Me"
Comes violining through my mind.
I may be the only one in the world
With background music of that kind.

Ever since I was a little shaver
The background music's been there
But when I mention...

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But you and only you alone, just you and not another soul, my darling, knows 
me
Behind the pyramid walls, you kissed me many times before, before you let me go
In chains I had to go...

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stopping
now just
standing

talking
as if to
himself

are you
following
me around

as he decides
then suddenly
picks up a fork

don't follow me
especially
to work

then
motioning
in the air

won't let you
in as he is
now beginning

to try to touch
the air
in front

of him
now
talking

out get out
of my head
scratching

do i follow...

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Twas sordid that thought
Midwinter handed a lit 
Oil lamp
Glowing
Showing the way outside to the shiny black paint of
The toilet door

Lift the latch....clunk! as your eyes scoured the darkness the bushes
For bogey men, trolls and murderers

Place...

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Late the music played in the smoky air
  in our noir Bogey and Bacall vignette,
and hands that stroked your silky chestnut hair
  held a red wine and lit a cigarette.
Your soft skin smelt...

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Goldie Blocks had no fear of anything – not closets, the dark or stairs.
Faerie tales did not scare her, she did not fear lions, tigers or bears.
She is fearless, her mother and her father agreed...

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Fake pyrotechnics bloom inside plastic strips.
The night gets colder
as Christmas carols limp on.

I slip away from the dull concert
into the unlit zoo,
sure that among the sculptured
caves and enclosures
beasts pace their plots.

Close by a large animal...

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Childhood Theme Park

In the shadow of Ilkley Moor,
Cow and Calf rocks watch over.
Growing up in a rural town,
A childhood hillside rover.
Flowing like the River Wharfe,
Young days of endless wonder.
Summertime never ending,
Joys of innocence I plunder.
Nature...

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When I was a child
Bogey men were not real; they are now.
When I was a child, we’d never heard of sex traffic rings.
We do now.

When I was a child the whole neighborhood
Corrected us, scolded us,...

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My ol' memory is hazy
And sometimes things don't seem too real;
But I can still recall the night
That I danced at the Wagon Wheel.

Well, seems I was in a good mood
And was puttin' on quite a...

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OGUNLABI OLAJIDE YUSUF-NativePen 013
BETRAYER -Revised
TIME OF THOUGHT: July 1,2012
DATE OF THOUGHT:LOSS

Your mission
You finally executed
Now you have broken loose
Our bond of friendship

Now the cloud is crystal clear
That it was a plastic one
Your fake and rehearsed smile
No...

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Purple bats and evil cats and strangled ghosts that laugh 
jet black cloaks, snickering blokes and witches that gaff 

Pumpkin grins, talking garbage bins and all that moves 
Halloween rhymes and pentacle signs with evil...

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Never go back to look for them,
those things you lost,
not just things, like your hair,
or a favorite pocket knife.

Remember 'Teddy Boys' ?
You were born too late
to wear the slim suited, drain pipes, 
velvet collared -
all...

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My husband had a childhood friend named Bogey Higgins.
Bogey Higgins was there on a daily basis for him when he was four.
He appeared when his beloved grandmother died.
“He went away when my mom said he...

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Looking cool 
Wearing blue 
Fly through the air 
Wingman as their pair 
Patrolling the skies 
Ready to encounter bogey lies 
Like eagles they soar
On this speed tour 
Landing on a carrier for air craft 
Navy...

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