Long Brewery Poems

Each English-speaker knows that funner means more fun than fun,
   and weirder means more weird than weird. And yet nary a one
of "proper" dictionaries has neologism words -
   the editors must...

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IF WALLS COULD TALK

So many things are left unsaid
So many things are left undone
So many things are left excused
The feelings I have for you; can never be left unexpressed
Am done needing many things; all I...

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Chorus
So many bites have made my heart indigent
so many burns have made my taste lost
I see your displays, I cherish the efforts
time is a luxury I beg of you to afford
give me this gift to...

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Glancing down from breathless heights,
Amidst climey sighs,
The looming colossus awakens from slumber
And stretches across Thelwalls linear skies.
The hot engines hissing steam -
Recalled from fond memories long back -
Tumbling like huffing little rain clouds
Down from the...

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On Monday morning, August 7th, 1823...someone that you’ve never heard of took his first small breath,
And all that he’s remembered for’s his awesome sour mash, and how he met, by all accounts, his quite peculiar...

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Forking River Dam, Illinois

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John M went camping and took his friend Timmy. Off they went to the Forking River Dam. They 
went to the...

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This is the story of poor old Jimmy Carew,
He worked for the brewery and drank special brew.
Jimmy drove the horse and trap with a twinkle in his eye
Loaded with beer – its destination: ‘The Golden...

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“There is a new Norm!”
A Queen proclaimed in the desert after the political storm 
“What was that?” The peasants shouted back. 
“We have a new Norm he filled out a form to be the new...

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Ale and horses

There was only one brewery in our hometown covering the whole district on flat-bed wagons with 50 horses
to get work as a driver was a sought-after occupation
when crates had been delivered at one...

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The Fantasy of Childhood

There was a tiny house near the main house built I think to house the elderly, but ended up being a place for old furniture, bits, and bobs.
There was a loft where...

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Just a few lines I hereby write to let you know
that I, in my entirety am still alive,
care I give, when with pen perceiving you so slow
the words upon these lines, just in time will...

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Untouchable

Have you ever watched the one you long for long for another
and tried to ignore the connection between each other?
Trying to keep your distance, 
trying not to express too much,
trying not to gaze in their...

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They close the brothe
This is good it be not awful
Those single and married men
Misbehaving 
What, what on their knees preying 
utmost wedding night delaying 
Does a single man need a marriage bed l
No no way...

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The Dignified Doorman 

In the thirties when fish factories in my town closed, the sardines 
didn’t swim near shore, they swam further into deep the ocean.
Perhaps collective memory told them not to go near the...

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A Horse and ale 

The brewery had many horses to carry crates of beer
around to small shops and each horse and its driver was assigned a route
The horse I liked was shiny black it had...

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‘Cancer is not for me!’ June screamed 
This is the nightmare that she dreamed
Staring at her reflection in the mirror
For this to happen is her worse fear

Maintaining her attractive thin waist
Dressing in style with impeccable...

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Senior Day

Sun hat check
Walking shoes check
Water bottle check
Off to wisconsin state fair
For a fun time with two daughters;

Handicapped parking
That's new
Walker in tow
That's new too
But I'm okay with that
Still here
Still kicking
Still having fun

Loaded tater tots?
Yes please
Shared...

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If Christ in his triumph and glory
Decides to unravel a new chapter and story
By returning from whence he departed,
He shall in stupefaction be started,
To find out this wanton era
Has indeed,  bested Sodom and Gomorrah.

He...

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HE

he ripped out his flesh for her to come to life
she wears his scars,
he knows his wounds through her body language
she scratched her back on the walls of his soul for safe passage.
he is down...

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Not happy I've reached my golden years
But one thing I am happy about
No snotty nose little brats runnin' round
Don't get what they want, they pout

Life's so tough you poor little buggers
You'll find out one of...

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Dear Cold Springs,

Men build empires from granite
facades taken from the ground you keep.
Most people on Minnesota Highway 23
pass without knowing the history
you keep to yourself. Most think you’re only
a small town with a brewery and...

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The Brewery 
It goes back a long time when I saw this closed down
the brewery, on the wall, faded letters proclaimed 
Portugal`s best beer. The was an enormous gate into
the courtyard I could smell the...

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It burned up our best corn field
Now we've no crops this year to yield
Peculiar, it was never set ablaze

Yesterday they were fully intact
Perhaps an extraterrestrial act
The idea leaves me in a daze

Unfinished circles all throughout
I...

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They say that naught in life is free;
With that, I have to disagree.
In Oregon, you get the views
Of waves and sand and, if you choose,
A tour of something now in vogue -
The brewery where they...

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