Long Bowen Poems

Your searching for something you can touch;
Looking for the same things to love, with no results;
and it's hard to believe;
Hard to receive;
Your shucking and jiving;
ducking and diving;
wondering and why ing. . . your trying to
Buck...

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After missing the train to Swan Hill.
I went Frankston and got off at Currum station.
A local bus 833 to Lake Patterson.
Walked right into a Retirement.
I was drawn to the Patterson Lakes Village,
With the water fountains...

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I was chasing this rabbit across the railroad tracks;
Someone failed to tell me that he's not comin back;
Are ya gonna eat them raisins;
I'd be mortified picture this in a window you standing here;
with your hands...

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Mark Gregory Hill-a man among boys.he surveyed land for twenty years or more,could scale 
any tree,catch any fish,hunt any animal.now,only a month removed from losing a 
child,stands alone,hand in pocket,contemplating the life that took it...

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Mark Gregory Hill-a man among boys.he surveyed land for twenty years or more,could scale 
any tree,catch any fish,hunt any animal.now,only a month removed from losing a 
child,stands alone,hand in pocket,contemplating the life that took it...

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You're (you are) my rock, my rock;
My Lord and King, my King, my everything;
And as I talk, I talk;
I find you're the only one thing;
Who can save my soul;
And will make me whole
Your mine, your...

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Brenda skipped school too frequently
to hang out with her junkie boyfriend;
she came home acting very erratically, 
her behavior bothered mom and dad.

When asked why she played hockey
while she should have been in school,
her reply was...

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You know what you need;
And you know what you feel;
You know what you need;
And yes it's for real;
So come on over;
Come on over;
won't you come, won't you come
Come On;

Come on over here today;
And we'll embrace
and...

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Today I wondered about the rain....
             ....I wanted it to rain again 

      The beauty of a chopped...

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Why? must you say;
Why? that you must obey;
And whom are you praying to;
Who are you praying to. . .
Now, how? do you believe;
When you won't believe;
And. . .
What is a branch that branch on the...

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I am only one person…I am only one mom
One parent today who can’t seem to hold on~
Their demands are so plenty
I tolerate it all
There is no one but me
Only MOM……when they call!
I am withering away….I...

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Folks call me, they call me...
Unusual
They make, they make fun of me...
Call me unusual
So unkind, 
nothing but hatred and malice on their minds...

Father, Father God;'
Why? you make me odd;
I'm refusing to be ridiculed I reborn...
I'm...

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Birds sin unpremediated art
On this warm gray winter's day
People are for lovin'; things are for use
Sing birds sing, broadcast it; don't dismay

Birds sing morn's verse, do you hear their song
Tell this new generation
Things are for...

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