Long Charley Poems

I used to have a stalker,
but I don't have anymore,
She was my living nightmare,
now life seems such a bore.

I met her in a nightclub,
where I was rat-arsed paralytic,
She accepted my phone number,
my equilibrium was pathetic.

I...

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Our Mate Charlie Brummell
Yes mate we went a droving back in nineteen fifty eight, 
The drovers cook was pretty rough, he couldn`t wash a plate. 
Hector he was fifty two, when he burnt our damper...

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She stopped smiling as soon as she picked up the subtle slow opening of the front door.  Jake, her grown up three-year-old stopped playing. He looked at his mother, to see if she was...

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Well, this morning began “a fine kettle of fish” to my taste
(ambiguity present and somewhat ironic), no waste
of intent here. ‘Walk’ mentioned proforma, ‘glazed doughnut’ from Stan’s (1)
tasked, a possible ‘chaser’ to sweeten the plot....

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Two young men in vietnam 
Sit in a foxhole one night
While chatting and talking about there families
and sharing pictures of each others wives

But along in the Dark distance
Came a bright and shimmering light
The light came...

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A toddlers Crayola masterpiece marks the box
Where the story of our days now tarry
Passages tilting the axis of a bittersweet equinox
As photographs eclipse yesterday and today unvaried 

The plans we made for a life
After years...

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Walking up a sandy draw-
Out in the desert land...
An oddity is what I saw,
Have buried in the sand.

“Saddlebags!” is what I thought,
“Dried up, and nearly gone.”
I wondered how they came to be,
Here in the sage...

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I cried for them this afternoon
Knew them since the matinee started
Saw them fall in love
At first sight, the world stopped
Everything was silent at the sight of it
They looked and were lovers
Later that day on their...

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I got caught up in social seizure
And Everything was oblivious
Till I flipped the coin for my pleasure

My whole life was obitual 
I strived to undo the Apostrophe
But my hated normal became habitual

I was actively dormant
Caged...

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.....Norm Duel and Johnno of the Second Twenty Fifth.....
Were in Syria in 1941.....
They were surrounded by the French Foreign legion with....
75mm cannon and machine gun ....
Their mortar position was in a hundred gallon pit.....
They'd plonk...

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My mind filled with Vietnam’s calamity
I chose my fate my destiny
My sacrifice a worthy story
For the Stars and Stripes, Old Glory

Along the jungles’ trail soaked with blood
Where bodies lay in Vietnam mud
Here and there the...

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Charley my wheel horse says that Jim is a yack, always jawing now.
They are both scrunchers, they nearly swallow their teeth on chow.
Jim is unsalted, but not lazy or slow, although he has trail dust...

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Charley has taken his class hostage; he is seven.
His classmates are terrified of his out-of-control behaviors.
There is a perpetual glare on his face, he seems angry always.
He snarls and growls, sneers, and prowls around as...

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Charley was being obnoxious so I took away his hedgehog,
it’s such a small toy anyways for a big Doberman dog.
A spoiled rotten boy who whined for an hour or so
hoping to get his way and...

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A garden sun chases our ginger cat.
Dad watches World War Two
up close on the TV
he grinds his teeth,
a general forced to take a back seat.
Mother in the kitchen,
not her natural territory.
She opens cupboards exploring contents.
It...

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Into the blue, another new dimension;
   into the blue- our destiny is Mars.
A strong reality, long-term ascension-
   into the blue among the planets, stars.

Those former sci-fi program memories
   will...

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give me a minute
if i don’t say this now
i may never find the courage

your life is ed up because of me
don’t try to stop me
or change my mind with lily-laced words  
you are good...

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The storm was approaching, we thought... should we scramble?
To stay may be risky, should we take the gamble?
We had our provisions, and we thought "We're prepared".
We bought batteries, and candles, and in no way impaired.
The...

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Invasion of the Bums & Scarecrow-Soldiers & Pretty Ballerina’s
By David J Walker

What are you gonna be 
	I donno 
		Maybe a soldier or a bum again or a Martian
My sister wants to be a ballerina 
		But...

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A tribute to Hollywood Squares
   Q and A changed a little somtimes to rhyme

If you decide to pet a dog 
Everyone knows it'll wag it's tail
What's the reaction you get from a goose?
"Of...

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Welcome to Yellow Woodpecker Farm where the incredible food slaps you.
The cows bark, the cats bellow, the dogs mow the lawn, and the birds moo. 
Let me talk! Let me say something! Put me in...

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darkness evokes the very fabric of his frame & gait
 a renegade for what he did to Sharon Tate
 666
 a following with Tex and the rest
 what was going on inside his head

 the...

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We live in a car – mommy, my little brother and me.
My dad left before I was born. 
My little brother is Charley’s kid.
Charley never liked me, so Mommy left him.
You are more important than...

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the dog Charley ate my poem
that's what my excuse is
the wind flew it down my street
the same place that my muse is

my boss said "get back to work NOW!"
"the deadline is here for your idea",
I'd...

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As that new bunch drifted slowly into Deadwood,
Bill turned round in his saddle to Charley Utter—
Sadly told him something he’d always remember—
That which made the others smirk and weak hearts flutter:

“Charley, I feel this is...

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