Long Camping Poems

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Premium Member Bye Bye, I'm Off to Mars

Redlight One to Mission Control!
Can you read me, Can you read me?
Are you there?
Has the comet hit you yet?
Did the 'Nuke it Baby' missile work?
Can you read me? Can you read me?
Perhaps not!
Oh well, here we all are, 
in our tin can spaceship,
with our tin can robots driving the show.
With all our tin can things on board.
Tin can demountables for our homes.
Tin can of food on board stored.
Tin cans of water and all else we need.
Bit like camping in our teens.
For our colonization of Mars,
needs all these tin cans to succeed,
for a life live'n forever in, 
and outta a tin can.
Hide the can opener from Elon!
Please!


3 Teams Western, Jazz, and Pop Horse race

It had matured into
something totally 
different from it's meager
begann9ings.
From what was made
a specticaule of
and doubted
now a realist view in light of
it's truth.
Practical and effeint
in every point of view
one spoke from up here 
even the lowest places seem
worthwhile and meaningful
the depths of it's reality
has been encompassed and surveyed
usage of every inch seems
practicail and the effeinacy of
it structure
ensures it's success.
Made right by the hardest of work
designed and deticated to the
success of the project.
-----------------------------------------
they wanted to find sponsers to create a new
thematic game adventer.
25 miles a race with three teaams
that is centered on culinary arts and equestrain displays.
challenges from task and completion
designed to score and to be evaluated.
The completion of three meals
with rules that regulate there comnpletion and the effectivness of
the trained professionals who
are tasked with there completion.
trophies and ribbons
award iin a point system that has a grandprize and
evalution officail that award points all along the way.
Three teams start at a subzero position
and with both tradition and modern eqipment they are tasked to perform.
each team to consist of 25 memebrs
that are faced with challenges both culinary and
mechanical obsticlaes that have each team to complete in order to get fromn one position to the other.
From Camping to feeding clean-up then to relocating and waiting for the fall back indivdauls to advance and to be recamped.
Form: Ballad

Premium Member Myrtle Beach

Camping on the sandy shore of the beach
Getting bored by the waves and their screech

Sitting around the camp after cooking out
It was so much fun just talking at our hangout

Soon, we noticed a couple who were fighting
Across the beach in a house we were sighting

They were making trip after trip up the stairs
We all knew this battle wasn’t one of our affairs

Still we watched from our place in our lawn chairs
Not much caring that it was darkening their tears

We watched for hours and heard their angry shouts
When we finally hit the sack it was midnight or thereabouts

While we laughed and hooted at the wife’s victory
That husband was bellowing that this was contradictory

Never would we forget that vacation with its entertainment
During our monotony on the beach this was our sustainment





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Premium Member Camping and Fishing

Covered in muck, dust, dirt and filth,
The rods were pulled from the shed,
Brought inside, through the kitchen,
And laid all over the bed.

And the tackle box was emptied of hooks and sinkers, 
Old lures, old bobs, and line,
Then the esky got emptied of the last camping trip, 
Of empty old bottles of wine.

All washed and dried with thick soapy water, 
Then packed to wait for the day,
When we’d all get up early and, with our tent and our beds, 
We’d simply just drive away.

And the day came along, we all left the house, 
Released from the old ball and chain,
We went camping and fishing, up by the river,
In a torrential, cold steady pouring rain.
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member A Sierra Nevada Mountain Peak

"I seem to find the happiness I seek
when we're out together dancing cheek to cheek." ~ Irvin Berlin

"I seem to find the happiness I seek
when I'm atop a Sierra Nevada mountain peak." ~ by poet

The time for our annual camping trip is here. 
My brothers and I - none of us can wait 
for these two summer weeks each year.

We wake up early and hit the interstate. 
Still dark, we see the amazing desert sky - 
nature's breathtaking, starry slate. 

The sunrise over cactus meets the eye,
above, a majestic California hawk 
soars in the smog-less, clear blue sky.

Arriving in the mountains, it's time to walk. 
We'll hike to a flowing crystal creek,
and hear the silence - there is no need to talk.

We will find the happiness we seek,
standing on a Sierra Nevada peak.


Premium Member That Was Then

We'd go camping away from city lights,
two best friends, on the cutting edge of wow.
And gaze at the stars on warm summer nights,
connecting with the universe, somehow.

The world was our oyster, we'd shuck for pearls,
leaving our fortunes in the hands of fate.
But when we started hanging around girls,
our friendship slowly began to abate.

We drifted apart and said our goodbyes,
but that was then: this is now, and we've changed.
We're no longer those hormone-driven guys:
I'm sorry that our friendship got short-changed.

I'd like to start over again, my friend:
let's not let our forever friendship end.
Form: Sonnet

Premium Member Christmas Memory Lane

The Nativity 
Macy's Christmas parade
Jingle Bells on a Silent Night 
Lionel Trains sets 
Anxious and can't sleep 
colorful gift wrapping paper
bows and ribbons
large family xmas gathering  
Lit Brother's Christmas village (phila) 
Fruit cakes and apple cider 
Sitting on Santa Claus’s lap 
Colorful lights draping the street posts  
Crying scared of Santa Claus (myself)  
Sears Christmas catalog 
New pajamas
Barbie and GI Joe
Christmas carolers’
Decorating the Christmas tree
Rock em Sock em Robots 
Snow on Christmas day
Woolworth 5 & 10 
Easy bake oven
Last minute shopping Christmas Eve 
Peace on earth, good will toward men
GI Joe with the kung fu gripe
three page Christmas list
Cabbage patch dolls
Hot wheels 
Toys R US big toy book
Atari 
School and church Christmas plays
Teddy Ruxpin
Game boy
No snow on Christmas day
Tickle me Elmo
Power Rangers 
Nintendo
Stores sold out 
Pre internet
Desperate search for the last Nintendo 
Christmas gift bags
Laptops & tablets
Re-gifting
Xbox 360
Gift cards 
Extreme Christmas lights 
Amazon
Latest I-phone
Hoverboards 
Hallmark’s 45 days of Christmas movies 
Hoverboards catching fire
Camping out all night 
Play station 5 
The Nativity 

What’s your Christmas memory?

Premium Member Playin' Catch

PLAYIN' CATCH

Mom and Dad would have the car packed the night before we left,
the station wagon filled with all the essentials we'd need for our
extended camping trips. Dad always made sure I had my ball glove
ready for rest stop breaks. This was my favorite anticipated time of
the trip!... when we would stop, Dad would tell me to grab my glove, 
but I was already out the door, lookin' for a clear stretch of grass to
throw with him. Dad had the same glove all through the years, an
old, beat up version that didn't have much padding. I used whatever
glove I was currently using for the team I was playing on, either
a present from him, or a gift, sometimes from a coach. Dad wanted 
me to start throwin' easy, as his eyesight wasn't all that sharp, and 
he needed to limber-up first, and focus on the 'heat!' I was tossin'.
I remember he would always encourage and compliment me on my
improvement since the last time we threw!. Our trip out west, "Custer's
Last Stand"...Yellowstone National Park".... our trips to "Itasca State Park"
and "Tettegouche State Park" always settin' aside time to "play-catch".

In time, Dad couldn't follow the thrown ball very good, and I remember 
when he told me he couldn't "play-catch" any more; by then I was
playin' varsity ball in high school, and Dad would come watch me play.
I always still brought his old glove and favorite 'rubber-coated' baseball
along on outings, so he wouldn't think I didn't remember he was 
still my hero, whether he could throw or not. I treasure those moments
now, and always try to 'play-catch' with the little cousins of mine, 
encourage and compliment them on their improvement,

.......since the last time we 'played-catch'








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Form: Narrative

Premium Member Nuff Said

Hitler accidentally bombed his nephew's house 
In Liverpool, so he joined the U.S. to fight with the Allies

A blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant
Now aren't you really glad you tuned in?

There are two hundred million insects for every human
Wouldn't have gone camping if I knowed that!

We weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead
Due to the gravitational effect
Too bad the moon doesn't shine all day

100 lightning strikes occur worldwide every second
Stay indoors!!!

Humans grow about 8mm every night while asleep
But revert back to their normal height the next day
Oh so glad, otherwise we'd spend a fortune on new clothes

250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Guess they leaned a little bit too much

1 in 28 American school-aged children
Have a parent in either state or federal prison
Holy crap! A really great example to follow

A single healthy human male produces enough sperm
In two weeks to impregnate every fertile woman on the planet
Uh! I volunteer my services... no charge!

Although gold is a heavy dense metal
It is generally considered non-toxic
Gold flakes may even be ingested in foods or drinks
No wonder restaurant meals are so high

Pope Francis once worked as a bouncer in a Buenos Aires bar
“Doing God's work?”

Mozart wrote a canon entitled “Leck mich im Arsch”
Which loosely translated means “Lick my deriere”

Nuff said!!!

Premium Member Marlene

Way, way back in 1974, 
When I was just a teen 
Three friends and I went to this place 
I'm sure you never seen
 
We all went on a camping trip
Two miles in the woods 
We packed our gear, our fishing poles
And all our other goods
 
This place in Pennsylvania,
Has a gorgeous waterfall 
This story's true I'm telling you...
So here's what I recall
 
We were standing in our underwear
Bathing in the river 
The water was so darn cold 
My lips began to shiver
 
We were so deep into the woods; 
We never would be found 
But you won't believe what we saw 
When we turned around
 
Strolling down the mountain 
And bringing all their gear 
Were four girls who saw us all 
In our underwear

All the girls were our age 
And one was VERY fine 
I told my friends to all- "BACK OFF" 
For that one there, was mine
 
As the hours passed, I kissed that girl
Yep, she had fallen for me 
So I took my knife and I carved our names
In this big old tree

Forty years later I went back 
To see what I would find 
To my surprise there was that tree 
And the names I left behind 

FYI: Although I only spent a weekend with this girl that I met over 40 years ago, for some reason I'll never forget her name. "Marlene" This was in Bushkill Falls, Pa. I was 16 years old and believe it or not back in the day I thumbed it there. From NJ where I lived it was a two Hour car ride. It took us twelve hours by thumb. 



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