Long Candlesticks Poems

The flames of the furnace (well-travelled by wind
slowly glazing the rags of gray women chagrined
at the sight of a hair fleeing tresses now thinned) 
sometimes billow like waves flooding naves through the night,
when the lightning...

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Bottom feeders flourish

When the economy's a bust

When bad times are the norm

And good times turn to dust

When neighborhoods go south it's sad

But a sign of their demise

Is when a bunch of pawn shops open up

Before...

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Fiddling About. 
by The Didds

Annual Concert, DMT, Time to act, you and me,
At Dauntsey School, a painted floor, performed in the round, 
with rehearsals at Sheep Street church, St Joe's school hall, the con club...

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"I see the lights come shining, from the west to the east
Any day now, any day now, I will be released." pop song

OH! My Lord and my God I see the coming of the Son
of...

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OH! "Submit yourselves to God and resist the devil and he shall flee from you," James 4 :7

Submit yourselves to God:

OH! Submit yourselves first to God!
And resist the devil and he shall flee
far far far...

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It takes many days walking the path God has given,
limping with arthritic stagger, aching unrelentlessly.

Any matter that this condition came on as I retire,
nearly psychosomatic! I must look old age in the face

and laugh. I...

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Shabbos Table True Fable
Our family "Heimish" setting,
Replete with 2 lighted candles letting,
Blessings, my wife's "Emunah" truly abetting.

6 days' worries & scurries set aside, allayed,
2 lights cleansing in noble "Dr. Suess" style displayed,
Candlesticks' "Curved Art", due...

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8/27/16



Just had shrimp and grits
Beside scrambled eggs whipped up with a whisk

Been a long time since
I've had some fish and chips


Went on many different trips
Some of which
Were on ships
And others were above waterfalls and cliffs

Back...

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"It only takes a spark to set a fire burning. And all around a fire is slowly glowing. That's how wonderful God's love is. Once we've experienced it, we really want the world to know....

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I hear the rolling thunder beyond the clouds
descending from his throne with many shrouds
His lightening circles the earth in peel
it’s effect to many will seem surreal

The angels who are holding back the wind
release their breath...

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3 great women in ur life,
three candlesticks sent to bring u 
lite,
show u were u r in life and where u 
cld
be,
if u listen u can hear em whispher,
cheering u on as u journey thru...

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6/9/22


Apparently far from tacit
Near endless racket
In day light and pitch blackness
For the sane and those in strait jackets

Dammit
Still sporadic
 Caught in transit
Can't rely on magic
Nor give up when it all turns tragic
It's just madness
Even though...

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She waited oh so patiently!

every day she looked, ("Oh, might I gloat?")

for sight of that one trawler, 'The Forever,'

cresting waves, he, wildly cursing,

all the while he's still afloat,

and every day she moans, "Oh, may he...

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A Parlor Game

"No whodunnit has one clue as to who really done it."
-- Reality clued in  
  
*   *   *    
    
Who yet...

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She waits, and Oh so patiently!
every day she looks, ("Oh, might I gloat?")
for sight of that one trawler, 'The Forever,'
cresting waves, he, wildly cursing,
all the while he's still afloat,
and every day she moans, "Oh, may...

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She waits, and Oh so patiently!
every day she looks, ("Oh, might I gloat?")
for sight of that one trawler, 'The Forever,'
cresting waves, he, wildly cursing,
all the while he's still afloat,
and every day she moans, "Oh, may...

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She waits, and Oh so patiently!
every day she looks, ("Oh, might I gloat?")
for sight of that one trawler, 'The Forever,'
cresting waves, he, wildly cursing,
all the while he's still afloat,
and every day she moans, "Oh, may...

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She waits, and Oh so patiently!
every day she looks, ("Oh, might I gloat?")
for sight of that one trawler, 'The Forever,'
cresting waves, he, wildly cursing,
all the while he's still afloat,
and every day she moans, "Oh, may...

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She waits, and Oh so patiently!
every day she looks, ("Oh, might I gloat?")
for sight of that one trawler, 'The Forever,'
cresting waves, he, wildly cursing,
all the while he's still afloat,
and every day she moans, "Oh, may...

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She waits, and Oh so patiently!
every day she looks, ("Oh, might I gloat?")
for sight of that one trawler, 'The Forever,'
cresting waves, he, wildly cursing,
all the while he's still afloat,
and every day she moans, "Oh, may...

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While sitting in the parlor of our old Victorian home,
I watched a group of candles burning bright.
The tiny flames would hypnotize me, dancing to and fro,
I scarce could let their flickering out of sight.
Contemplation found...

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Excuses
I’ve never made love before
But sex is no stranger to me.
It is no stranger than my
Own two hands are to each
Other. Each has a warm
Twin that fits perfectly like
The pieces of a puzzle,
So no I...

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Oh! Turn on the light house today.
Oh! Turn on the light house without delay.
Oh! Turn on the light house Jesus is 
Coming back with not much further
Delay! Keep on being ready, willing,
And able!

Oh! Keep your...

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Red silk drapes, 
frame this window 
This fireplace, 
embers glow, 
dominates this space 

Snow falling outside, 
stark trees, 
softened in white, 
part of the big freeze 

I am in my room 
These walls, 
lined with...

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Once upon a midsummer’s night,
I dreamed a dream of horses white,
of Billy goats and little fishes-
of dogs and cats and childhood wishes.
I dreamed of a dragon living by the sea,
and of the child I used...

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