Long Camden Poems

It was the fall of fifty-four
and “cool” was the in thing.
I was a senior in high school
and had just moved 
to Camden High.  
I was checking things out.

Rambling down the hall one day
I just...

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Love Letters - 1 - A Collaboration With Michael Clarke - repost
Love Letters - A Collaboration With Michael Clarke
Love Letters A Collaboration:

These writes are from the letters of John and Janet Camden. These letters were...

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General Cornwallis of Great Britain
faced a problem that he couldn’t resolve,
he’d won at Camden, they’d captured Charlestown,
but still the southern colonies wouldn’t fall.

Instead he faced a string of reverses,
lost at King’s Mountain and then at...

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Back in seventeen eighty-one
The revolution hit hard times,
Britain had taken Charlestown
And at Camden had crushed the lines

Of General Horatio Gates,
Leaving nobody to resist,
Except the Swamp Fox Marion
Who alone was able to persist.

South Carolina had fallen,
And...

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It was after the defeat at Camden,
in the fall of 1780,
British Major Patrick Ferguson
sought to exploit Britain’s victory.

To secure South Carolina’s countryside,
he marched his loyalist forces forward,
threatened the men beyond Appalachia,
said he would lay waste...

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12)Coddle- Two fish enrapt in love.

13)Mustard- A diarrhea victim who can wait no longer.

14)Jam Session- A gathering of sweet-toothed weirdos with various jams and 
jellies.

15)Coffee Table- An occasional table made of stale and hard coffee...

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They married in their own garden under the canopy of a Wild Date Tree

An indigenous plant standing tall for sweetness and benevolent spirits

This one untamed and miraculously withstanding droughts in the City of Gold

It gave...

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Love Letters - 2 - A Collaboration With Michael Clarke-Repost
Love Letter No. 2...Janet Camden.

My most precious darlin' love I come to you across the many miles as my heart it bleeds an undying love for...

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In the shadow of Newark’s bricks and bones,
Where the pavement hums with moans,
Where mothers pray with open eyes,
And sons are born beneath gray skies—
The blood remembers. The land remembers.
And still, the chain extends.

They paved the...

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The Scots, by God,
They drove them out,
With a single Yorkie
At their heels a' yappin'
The Hobyahs tried to fly
Their arms they were a flappin'

Some managed to take to sea
And landed in Hamptonshire,
Yes-serieee!!!
But the British Navy would...

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so, another shooting in
the belly of the empire…

i wonder if Charlton Heston’s
withery old cock just 
sprung to life?

i wonder if Ted Nugent & 
Charlton Heston are sitting in
front of the television together
stroking each other’s hard...

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In smoky halls where echoes groan,
They carved the truths in tempered stone,
Yet none recall the scribe who wrote,
A chap in boots and mismatched coat.

His quill was plucked from harpy's wing,
He’d hum while making corpses sing,
And...

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The date and time 
is not the question at hand.
What we have is a contradiction 
of God’s command.
The Mayan, trying to make sense 
of natural seasons
without the help of Gods wisdom.
In command of all time...

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Sophie was born with an abnormal right foot, 
So when she was nine she chose amputation, 
She comes from Camden then moved to Bath, 
And now studies at Bath College Illustration. 

In 2011 she went...

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Still unemployed.
traveling to fill that void.
Steady pains, no reason to complain.
Everything is so clear.
This vision is so strange.
Leading my life, heart first.
Thanks to gods grace,
I dodged my ride in the big black hurst.
Twice.
Some say my...

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What does it mean to me
New Jersey
It means smell and warmth
iI…….  oops wrong sort of Jersey
Here we go start again …….

Was the home of the Lenape Indians
Till the Dutch and Swedes came their way
Followed...

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I'd give everything away 
to get back to the pricks of Camden,
hear them rattle by and get lost at the dawn.
It's about time to admit 
the loss of virtue
of being able to love in return....

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NO SLAM

Im heart broke.
I didn't get to vote.
Is this a joke.  
Now I've been provoked.

It's like Cambells in Camden,NJ
leaving the people with no hope.
It's been banned...
all the other 
four letter words,
that, I understand.

I'll be...

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No one 
not even you
will ever know 
beforehand 
how things will go.

Practice may make perfect 
but perfect is no guarantee 
of success.


The council sent a wrecking crew 
which is
the sort of thing that council's do
and...

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The auld fella’s auld fella left the tech
after Ripening for sixteen summers.

Camden-Wagon-Gravity landed a
shovel and a pick at his lonely boots.

‘DIG’. he knew that Language. and by God
did he dig. there is a dignity

in breaking...

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Since the days of Francis Scott Key, 
this city has changed significantly.
Still standing is the historical site of Ft. McHenry.
The fifteen star flag still hangs proudly.
While Key saw the rocket’s red glare,
and the bombs bursting...

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At Camden Yards in Baltimore,
The Orioles will play,
The White Sox from Chicago
Their opponents for today.

But players will not hear the cheers
Of all their rooting fans.
For ticket holders, refunds wait,
A crimp put in their plans.

‘Cause Baltimore’s...

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a black bear roams the yards
of Camden residents
was tranquilized moments ago

she had come accustomed to being fed
by the hand of humans
an accident waiting to happen

looking into that pathway
of my woods sitting from my daybed 
my heart...

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She has an empathic touch,
And she’s from Camden, Maine.
She’s traveled the U.S. and Europe,
For new techniques and methods to gain.

She gives Thai and Chinese massage,
And also has a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts.
Achieving Master level in...

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