Long Carr Poems

The Fifties...Music

The music of the fifties…well, what can I say…
was heaven here on earth compared with that today.
Romantic, lovely sentiments of heart and soul,
with poems set to music to advise, console.

Mid-fifties music era rendered lovely...

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"Art is art, nature is nature you cannot improve upon it ...
Pictures should be inspired by nature but made of the soul
of the artist.  It is the soul of the individual that counts."

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After the Casket Falls
After your soul is called
After your final breathe is drawn
I'll meet you again

After the Casket Falls
After your soul is called
After your final breathe is drawn
I'll meet you again

After the Casket Falls
After your...

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Question - - - 
Is the Internet eroding our attention span?

Carr wrote an essay; who’d he think would read it
Over 500 words, I’d have to concede it
Intrigued me at first; caught my attention 
He’d use...

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Historiography is no job for the coward.
if you are doubtful, locomate to the “cow ward”.
Summon Ibn Bantuta, Jan vansina, Samuel Johnson and Cicero ,
they all know history is made in every scenario.

“What is history” ,...

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I held on. I took care of such a fragile thing. I took care to make it look and feel better. It was beautiful. It made me happy ......but it was such a fragile thing....

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Here They Come 
Reflecting on When They Won 
It Is the Raiders Who Are Now Living Here 
To Allow Las Vegas To Let Out A Devious Cheer 

Jon Gruden Known as Chucky 
Will Hope to...

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You were just cockroaches, not people at all.
The young men stare at the genocide perpetrator.
It was our teaching, we were taught to maim and kill you.
You were cockroaches. Three orphans tried to understand.

In April 1994...

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Golden flares ignite explosions from my hand, 
set the sun in bright orange and yellow; 
A potent force consumes in brilliance more
than what feeds the hunger of the rest. 

Redder blood beats within vessels 
of...

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McDonald’s To Mom – Bug Off

By Elton Camp

In Arizona, disgraceful conduct is being seen
Because a parent wants McDonalds kept clean

Filth in the play areas Dr. Carr-Jordan found
The places refused to take action that is sound

She...

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In denim- blues skies: 
the sun hums gold a decaying monotone
of chest crushing heat on teeming trees 
to fields and prairies, where they striptease.

And when the wind gusts: 
cool hours seed encoring the hues 
of...

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Colorful Fantasy Flights 

You brought color to life;  
a soul seeking newer forms. 
Into bright red, sandy, realms  
holding rainbows in disguise, 
you instead slept not 
yet endured all—  

with honor. 

Blank...

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For many years you starred on Happy Days as Howard Cunningham.
When your fans learned that you died, they most likely said "DAMN!"
You starred in Father Dowling Mysteries as a Catholic Priest.
You have passed away and...

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Well Raider fans our season was going great
Winning many games in the 4th quarter late
We were ready for a playoff run to go really far
We had the best QB in the league our man Derek...

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She is sitting on the end of her bed,
her head is in her hands.
The tears fall from her face.
She thinks to herself what could have i done to deserved this?
Her phone rings,
its a text message...

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Dad was a great piano player
Grandpa Luther was a great man
He burned his wife’s Bible 
In 1942, when Colorado farmers
Decided all Germans and Japanese
Threatened them
My grandmother 
Got another Bible 
English version 
She didn’t have to...

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