Long Buss Poems

Verse 1: Hating can hurt...taking off my shirt 
Fading can make you feel like dirt 
Sometimes, I feel beautiful and high as a kite
Other days, I feel like a cow patty on the ground...you love...

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There's a Senior's home called the Shady Lane
    and life's curse is at an end.
Where a hundred souls are kept in line
    till Death its message sends.
They built a...

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I  sat at my desk in the early hours of the morning listening to the words of the mighty one calling “windows to my soul” kept warning. I didn’t question it, I didn’t understand...

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Submitted for contest:  A Child's Home
 adventure, candy, childhood, city, fear, first love, freedom,
Memoirs Of Being A Child At Home





Memoirs Of Being A Child At Home


I was brought home to a red brick apartment...

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1) I hate brown-nosers far more than I hate most other nosers 
of virtually any known color!

2) I will make it a point to slap you in front of your superiors,
with a biblical fury, the...

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now this is not a poem but more of a short story if you are expecting a poem this is not one, but please feel free to read my story. it will make you think...

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Earlier today April 4th, 2022,
which supersedes bald faced headlines 
pointing finger and 
Putin blame for Bucha killings
squarely on head & shoulders
of Russian autocrat, née
yours truly lathered 
his hirsute higglety-pigglety 
thinning oily tresses. 

Hark….the herald angels...

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January 24th, 2023 Hair washing heralds huge happening

Hark….the herald angels sing, and twitter 
for mass communication 
mediums stop the presses 
when I, a regular schlemiel 
take shampoo to mine matted mass mop 
(no less than...

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The Luckiest of Men
By Rick Rucker

I called on friends yesterday,
They asked if I was okay.

They had never seen me move so slow,
They thought my energy was low.

I assured them I was fine,
I had merely drunk...

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		 Hobble Hobble Hobble0
      Written for Cedarville Librarian Julie.

Absolutely no pressure on that knee for 6 weeks.
They gave me crutches 
Hobble, hobble, hobble. to the door.
Husband waiting for me, 
luckily.
I...

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Costa Rica Tour

Sit right back and I’ll tell you all
About our recent trip
Somewhere in Costa Rica
We left our cruise line ship
The bus ride – uneventful
Out through the country side
The vistas were fantastic
 Then came the...

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                                “Thin Dime Blues”.

	Warmth...

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“Santa Anna Wind”.   

                  © London F. Buss

  Don’t fear sadness, only shadows, 
 ...

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“The Queen-Sized Bed”.
			 © London F. Buss

  A queen-size bed was coming slowly,
  down the rough dirt track.
  As it drew closer,
  The wheels clumsily mounted on the base of each...

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* There is one person I would bring back in a heartbeat, and that's my favorite human being of all-time, Walt Whitman - he literally changed my life with his poetry, and brought true beauty...

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Afraid of I-scream.

 The winter trees are calling,
  to save me, 
  to save me from myself.
  Regrets of yesterday
  How could I say what I said,
  but I did,...

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I miss my cocoa butter kisses, hope you smile when you listen
Ain't no competition, just competing for attention
And you like, "I'm not on no games"
Well, baby, I been peeping, and you ain't been the same
Like,...

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Busstopgangers 
 
 
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Sometimes a Cowboy is sitting at the bus stopped waiting there for no one 
sometimes it is the drunk who sleeps there sometimes it is the...

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I wrote this orphan poem to see if the infamous Australian musician Paul Kelley can torn it into a song.  Many have tried and failed..

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The One
by Rick Rucker


When you have found “The One,”
That person that outshines the Sun,
Then you will understand  the fuss,
Your heart convinced with the first buss!

Your lack of  focus is normal, don't worry,
Love will...

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_______Conscious Mind________---
She used her natural beauty to keep him.
She often times exerted her power
of her attractiveness to get her way.
He remarked of how
she made him tingle inside.
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______Sub-Conscious Mind________
Dim witted and gullible
he felt foolish and used
unwise...

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Subject: BUS STOP CRAZIES   Today at 3:37 pm      

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BUS STOP CRAZIES 
BUS STOP CRAZIES 

Glitter My Words 
First one: a man rolled a cigarette using a bummed...

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2006 Fifa World Cup, ah jump and celebrate Trinidad in it
But yuh know de saying, after joy is sorrow sh…..t
Yeah boy, all skin teeth eh laugh
Trinidadians like too much bacchanal

Band yuh belly or just eat...

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"Maybe it was his faults that made him run away" 

How does one go about finding an escape from life’s pain?
When all you do is find yourself crying, alone in the middle of the night,
...

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“Cream Pie”.

We never took a chance,
We wouldn’t make the time.
And I just didn’t care if you were mine?
No now you’re here,
and now I'm there.
You took his love, and his name,
then you married him, to get...

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