Long Cal Poems

The Five Secrets"

?????? I had this amazing dream .....

I had this dream. I dreamt I was in this room and there were bookcases from floor to ceiling on all four walls, with no windows. The...

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A pure Hawaiian of rare birth,
living a life somewhat carefree,
fed farm animals by this squirt,
sticks and stones were real toys indeed,
set trash ablaze, be on alert,
a barefoot country kid, that's me,
a runner on trails made...

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[An Autumn kitchen a crucible of y e a s t and y e a r n i n g]

Samantha kneads dough with determined hands, she hears
    Hank's cry—"Vi vi an"—a phantom...

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What is this thing we call a HEART? We spend our entire lives talking about it. When a child is born and you gaze upon its beauty you say, Be still my HEART, The first...

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I love "WORDS" I love the way "WORDS" can change a mood, make you smile, make you laugh, and we all know "WORDS" can make you cry. What would this world be without "WORDS"? There...

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Heavy heart 

Die  die
The fear in my eye
I can hide behind this badge
It will protect me and mines 

Is this how you feds think
Is this how you feds feel
You fear the color of my...

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Heavy heart 

Die  die
The fear in my eye
I can hide behind this badge
It will protect me and mines 

Is this how you feds think
Is this how you feds feel
You fear the color of my...

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Who would believe an old hat could change the lives of so many people. 

Outside the coffee shop I frequent sits a homeless man with a sign like we see in so many cities asking...

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Dealing with Grief

A lady friend of mine was trying to deal with the loss of both parents as well as her Husband all pretty much at the same time. She was having real difficulty dealing...

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PBTG "The Red Dragon is Rising" Gordon Robertson CBN. I have also been told by my Chinese American friend about the Middle Kingdom of ancient China. Where nations would bring them their tribute. They hold...

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In a clap-board building by the Tetons,
1919, if you’re wondering the year,
a man named Sid Hull sat down for a drink
in a saloon they called The Last Frontier.

Sid had been riding here for quite a...

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A SHOUT OUT FOR PEACE

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A - All play
B - Ball, make that
C - Call, a shout out for world peace!
S - Stall, procrastinate not, let's all play ball, make that...

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I knew I was in trouble when I woke up to being tired to a chair in the living room and a 
masked man brandishing a 50 cal pistol in my face. I guess that...

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Copyright 2015 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
POETIC LYRICS BY TLH ANDRESS (SWISS FAMILY- THE 'ROYALS')



When YOU...Brew Right!
IS...YOUR...COF-FEE...TEA...OR-JUST-ME?

JUST...A...PACK-AGED...Silly-Old...SMOOTH-DEE/LIGHT!

BROWN/STAINED...'N/BURNED!

GROUND-ED-'N...BROWN!

SPILLED/RIGHT? WRONG?

TOSS-THAT/BITCH...BUM/DOWN!

JUST...Spell-it/RIGHT!

OR-WRONG!

DONE-RIGHT...OR...WRONG!

JUST-WHIP/IT!

360! CIR-CA-LEAN...TOSSED/RIGHT...'n/TIGHT!

ROUND-and-ROUND!

SPOON-IT! CIR-CA-LEAN!

[Brief Musical Interlude]

SIL-VER/SPOONS...AND...ROY-AL/ACES-ALL!

A-TOOT...A-TEET/PUFFIN-HOT!

A-TOOT...A-TEET/PUFFIN-HOT!

A...PUFFIN/HOT...DEE-SIGN!

COF-FEE/TEA...OR-JUST/ME?

[Brief Musical Interlude]

Smooth-Designs...Done-Right/OR...WRONG!

A-'HERC'...A-'VEE' [Venus]?

FONTED-NOTES...PENNED-RIGHT...AND-COM-PU-TERED/WRONG!

A Smooth/Dee-sign?

BREWED-RIGHT?

STAINED/WRONG?

Pack-AGED/SIL-LY-'OL-DEE-SIGN!

360? OR-JUST/10th-DEGREE?

Just...BREAK-a-COOKIE...
RIGHT...AND-TIGHT!

FOR...A-FOR-TU/NATE...DESIGN!

TOSSED-RIGHT...A-BAKER'S-13th/DEE-GREE-and/SWEETEST/DESIGN!

CIR-CAL-LEAN-and/RIGHT!

'N-TIGHT...FOLDED/BROWN!

A-LE-GENDARY...CLOTHE...TO/BAKE...TO/CUT-BROWN!

BLACK?

A...NEW/STEP?

A/STEP-a-DANCE!

A...NEW-CLOTHE...TO/CUT-RIGHT/WRONG!

HE/SHE...CUT-THAT...'OL-CLOTHE...RIGHT-AND-TIGHT!

DOING-IT...RIGHT-OR/WRONG!

HE/SHE...CUT-THAT...'OL-CLOTHE...RIGHT-AND-TIGHT...AND/BUSTED-WRONG!

HEY...'TWAS-IT...RIGHT-'n-TIGHT...DONE/WRONG?

[Musical Interlude]

A-Date...To-Ree-member!

HANDS...so...SOFT!

OR...BURNED/BLACK...AND/BLUE...ROY-AL?

PUR-PAL-LEAN?

ROYAL...DESTINY?

[Teeth] 'FONTS'...OF-IVORY!

3-MISSING?

A...ROYAL...MYS-TER-Y?

[Musical Interlude]

In a Distant Harbor...Old Man Moon...GRINNED-and-SPOUTED!

TEARS-and-FEARS...DOWN!


A/WHALE-SPOUTED!

AND...BLEW-UP!

IT-'TWAS...A-GUSHERS'...13th-DEGREE!

[Briefest Musical Interlude]

And...

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Walking through the guarded gate and onto my children’s school grounds, the impact of the 
80mm and 120mm mortars crashing to earth caused me to pause. When you couple this with 
the repetitive thrumming of...

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Only if you knew that you live like a God in a place my heart has found you fit to rule
only if you knew that I would be the opposite of what God would cal...

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For example a Dachshund dog was thrown 5 floors to his death
The owner photographed this and posted it online
His dog looked like he was sleeping but was dead

I tracked the Dachshund Dog’s Killer down and...

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I have spent my whole life loving others, 
but receiving very little love in return. 
There were a few times when I thought that the person 
I was with loved me, but time always had...

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Guys I would like to share my FIRST WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
                         ...

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I'm so glad that you came to see me, let me take 
your bag, you look so beautiful tonight I wanna take it 
bad,

but patience is a virtue as my Daddy used to say, I...

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More than two years it be since me old dad had to fly. I miss him you know, he was 
my best friend. I miss the twinkle in his Scottish,Irish,American eyes, a kind and 
caring...

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Some numbers tumble down the hallowed halls of baseball’s past -
a sport of numbers after all, these memories hold fast.
Stan Musial wore #6, Lou Gehrig, #4;
the “luckiest man in all the earth”, great player AND...

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...“For two years we tried, but ambushes came,
they hit and run, would not stand up and fight,
the meadows were deadly, the forests were hell,
wherever we went, we were in their sights.

“Imagine one hundred million peasants
as...

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I'm so glad that you came to see me, let me take your bag, you look so beautiful tonight I wanna take it bad,

but patience is a virtue as my Daddy used to say, I...

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Rainy Day in Baseballland
Inspired by: Casey at the Bat

It was a rainy day in Baseballland
The players were home in bed
One rookie rolled over his eyelids a flutter
With dreams of a stand-up triple running through his...

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