Long Broadcaster Poems

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LOME – In an effort to topple a government set up to end a 24 year dictatorship rebellious army troops seized the state broadcasting station yesterday, then left the building but returned...

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I felt the touch of the breeze on my face from my sleep
Oh! With the morning sun, i woke with a flip
And there staring at me, is a lady in her teen
I, surprised but not...

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At a very young age, David spent his early days 
collecting natural specimens, fossils and stones
always venturing out, to our planets sun rays
throughout his amazing life, even, with old bones

As a broadcaster, writer, educator and...

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I relish sparring repartee of clever quips...

Particularly, when voicing and/or
writing bon mots doth betake
chuckling clownlike me 
rumbled stilled skin,
and e'en rouses 
this mummified corpse
(asleep for bajillion years) 
among sleepers awake,
where mine inside belly 
doth pleasantly...

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Sometimes in churlish chains
Fed up with ribald refrains
On my mind inflicting pains and strains

In the morning, afternoon and night
When from life I gain no delight
Sinking into sorrows on the flight

From illusion
Conflated with delusion
Carved from collusion

Between...

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September is here and we are remembering
 the worst tragedy that ever struck our
Nation, a Nation where we thought - we were
safe. What were you doing on that fatal day?
I think that what ever any...

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Some days, I am a dreamer of the future.
I tend to imagine myself treading paths
I've always dreamed of taking.
At night, before I sleep I try to
Envision myself in a court defending
A client with all my...

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I always think of you on the first of May
Recalling the New York Mining Disaster
What a tragedy it ruined my holiday
For whom the bell tolls expressed the broadcaster

Recalling the New York Mining Disaster
Stayin Alive would...

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Freudian Slip --- Insight of Lip --- Dane Ann
Gravestone ---Heart- Mark ---Dane Ann
Gall  --- Vexing Vixen  ---  Dane Ann
Happiness --- Bounteous Bliss ---Dane Ann
Hog Sty --- Power Pen --- Dane Ann
Indigent ---...

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Zealots, one by one, with steadfast passion
         serving God as Master
      in enthusiastic fashion -
       ...

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I wish I were a tree and no matter the times am cut down; my roots will still be planted in your heart. If I were a ship I would vote you as the captain...

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Today I saw ‘Sand in the Sandwiches’ Edward Fox was playing Sir John
What joy to hear his wonderful words it was like he had never been gone

On the train journey home I’m inspired ~ to...

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I want a parade 
Let it be huge
No chance I’ll be swayed
Don’t be a scrooge.

Lot’s of Brass Bands
Marching Marines
The clapping of hands
This thing’s in my genes.

I may not have served
I wasn’t quite well
But now its...

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There was an AM station from years ago.
I tuned in at night to hear my radio.
Their tower was based in Windsor, Ontario.
They would let the best of Canadian artists flow.

During the day, it was a...

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I hear myself talking to the radio;
the shock-jock stops pushing words 
into my vehicle,
a pause, as if he is listening.
I don’t get paid for my opinions
my place is to be a listener, a non-combatant,
just ears...

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Tempest rages through the night
Howling and roaring with all her might
Rain lashing against the window pane
How I wish the storm would end!

Thunder and lightning what a night
Tempest’s energy bolt of light  
Now what’s that...

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