Long Bub Poems

Pied tidings of suburbian 
Magpies,
Squawking and squabbling,
Quarreling ferociously among 
Themselves - 
Rush to steal
From off the beleaguered bird 
tables,
To the annoyance of all concerned,
A much begrudged meal;
Before scurrying away into 
Unfrequented woodlands,
Marooned like islands in...

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I’ve unfurled the Southern Cross tonight and put it
On the wall, and as I gazed the longest while.. I thought I heard the
dingo’s call?  It couldn’t be as all
Round me were the sounds of...

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Sabati was eight years old on the day
that his grandfather told him to sit down,
there was a story that he had to share,
that he was finally old enough now.

Sabati looked up to Grandpa Kaahbli,
had heard...

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please lemme know and honestly profess
if profusion of words create a lingual Loch Ness
(when hens canst come home to roost
   especially, encountering 
   the following conglomeration
   in matthew scott...

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When We Met and Fell in Love
(half a century ago)
By Franklin Price
03/02/2022

When we met so long ago, another time, another place.
I felt a pull, a need for you, when I looked upon your face.
We both...

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In every day in every way, tellin' me do what I do, in school
 Remember my homies, remember my friends,
 Remember Monique I thought she was cool 
Stayed away from the club, 
the bottles of...

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It was in the year 2040,
in Vienna was where it all began,
folks were looking at the Lance on Longinus,
when they saw something they couldn’t understand,
on the spearhead was dried blood, from a man.
The faithful all...

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To be sung to the tune of Subterranean Homesick Blues.

Davy’s in the basement
Working on geometry
You’ll see my intent
A theorem in development
Presh is on the website 
Hit pause, scratch head
Trick problem, misled 
Try another approach instead
Look...

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Is your mind in the gutter,
full of what you shouldn't utter?
  Or perhaps it's your conscience
  which eats you alive with slanderous nonsense--
  about your ex, matters of sex, or your neighbor's...

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I'm drifting off into Neverland
I can see his face and touch his hand
His smile so big and face so bright
We are walking together on this hot summer night
"Go ahead Bub say what's on your mind."
"You...

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Sunshine undulates across verdant plain
casting dark shadows ushering twilight zone
ringing athwart tree trunks
invigorating, joyously kickstarting, 
and plenti revitalizing
bountiful nature buzzfeeding 

vim, vinegar  and spunk
caressing, massaging, and palpating with
soundlessness inducing bub bully giddy,
and sudsy spongy...

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I'll bet this poem strikes a chord,
Please pray for the folk who cook their  goose,
Pretending "luck" is God's reward
(Their brains laid waste by lack of use!)

Boys born to wealth must grow Dads' name,
Their fear...

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  bub-blub tump-tump-tump-tump
I was bitten by my wrong choices;
Invited and enticed by my voices;
The ineptitude seemed happy portraying,  beating heart
In there stepped desperate loneliness, bleeding heartbeats
Of unfortunates that are decaying 
chess rising WAIT...

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Have Mac - Will Travel!

I have iPhones slung low on each hip for fast draws.
Nope, you won’t see white gloves on this tenderfoot’s paws.
I post mostly rhymed poems, they’re metered, spit-shined
and can dazzle one’s boots...

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I saw an old man with a hard hat on
Walkin' down the road as the sky turned dawn.
I said, "Howdy Bub, where you headed to?"
He said, "Don't much matter - just west will do.
I been...

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High Noon Antics

High noon, the time was set upon this arid, sultry day
The guns would set against the other, quick-draw style
In speedy rivalry and bid to have their final say
With keen eyed rapid movement versatile

This...

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Once a week, like clockwork
McGee goes to the Pub
The barman smiles and asks him
"What can I get you, Bub"

McGee with three fingers up
Shouts out "Just three beers"
The barman serves them up
Nods his head,as he says...

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What's all the hub bub about and with all of these people denying
Yet it's these people You don't doubt even if they're the one lying
They have a story for everything but nothing really makes sense
What...

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Those BURMA SHAVE signs used to give us kids something to do,
As down the highways and byways in our 1935 Dodge we flew!
The chef-d'oeuvre from the quills of very creative poets flowed,
Nailed to fence posts...

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But in the fact that it was barking
trees 
The wind moving the tree branches in the night
trees
I felt compelled to sniff the summer lawn
Compelled so to remembering my late nightly gatherings
Where are the dandelions I...

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This may sound a tad bit strange
But I can promise you it's true
It all took place in the fishing town
Of Pleasant Valley one sunny afternoon

All of the sudden fishing line started popping
Out of the lake...

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Just like you

I saw a woman today, just like you.
Dark hair and almond eyes, with high 
Cheek bones from the east; slender with
Gently curving hips.
Just like you.

Walking the cobbled streets at night, in the 
Cool...

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WHAT’S All THE HUBBUB BUB?

Where was Solomon when the battle began?
I guess the Biblical hero got wise and picked up and ran
Where was Solomon when a man wanted his property and so did she
And there...

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BUT WHAT WAS IT? 

I cannot believe she would really take it
But it mattered not since she was about to grip my heart and break it
During all the hub-bub, tumult and chaos she stopped and...

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BUT WHAT WAS "IT?" (ask my constant ally Miss Jane)

I cannot believe with Betsy and Joey she would really take it
But it mattered not since she was about to grip my heart and break it
During...

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