Long Chocolate milk Poems

It was 1968 we'd gathered again in the school auditorium my tiny hands sweating only five years old while my name was called in all of this cold  
civil rights riots plagued my little...

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THE DRAGLINE  for Pete Brett 

One hundred foot boom 
 7-½-yard bucket 
The tracks are like 
 Ones on the tracks of a tank
They go chunk clunk and clank  

Arm of the boom...

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I was a city born and city bred young fellow,
whose shoes had mostly only touched concrete and tar.
Oh yes I had seen grass, but out on a footy ground
and my entertainment was drinking at a...

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I remember the land of drums I was born
  bedded beneath great hanging nets;
          the sound of the conch and the horn.
My blue suitcase filled...

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O how I wonder what the night will bring...
Will it bring me some one to feel a fling?
A fling that is brisk and quick that will make me fall in love again?
Will the night be...

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For lunch in my zoo, they did not sell hot dogs. Instead we had dot hogs for lunch. When it comes to eating dots, I think I am the biggest hog. Yummy, I love dots.

Instead...

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Grandfather
I cry, I hold it in, I cry. 
I hate the way I saw you tonight,
Wrapped up in wires,
Sleeping beneath the shut off lights,
But this is no sleep your in,
Its just a moment before your...

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What’s Up Santa, I hope you’ve been well
It’s been twelve months since we’ve spoken and I’ve something to tell
For the past year I’ve been feeling so alone
Yearning for someone to call my own
The streets here...

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What should I get today,                                                  before we go for food we...

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Hey! Look at this… It’s a ‘Dragon Spy’, we have lurking about.
Truly I must say, 007 has nothing on our 003 & one half. 
Yep! A secret agent is lurking inside, Dragon, at our house.
He’s...

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A river of tears poured down her face;
Ocean softly lapping at her toes.
Anxiety built up in her chest,
While the silver dripped down from her nose.

Curls a shade of chocolate milk
Framed her fragile, milk-white face.
The wind...

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sitting of the sofa with my pancake pizza
the snow has freshly fallen
the atmosphere is peaceful
i cut on the tv to watch reach the beach
the honey butter drop biscuits are ready
the chocolate milk is perfectly cold
i...

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   "A Christmas Wish for Santa"



O Santa! it's been very hard to be good all year
and Christmas Eve is nearing for presents 'neath green tree
listening for the sound of your sleigh and eight...

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As the autumn of my life approaches, a bit of memory fades,
But I still recall very special times from my primary grades.
We did things then now considered politically incorrect,
Enjoying Valentine and Halloween parties - no...

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As the autumn of my life approaches, some memory fades,
But I still recall very special times from my primary grades.
We did things then, now considered politically incorrect,
Enjoying Valentine and Halloween parties - no one did...

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Child Drinks And Drives
        (Parents Plead 5th. Beat the 5)

Mommy and daddy are going to jail you know
5 is too young to let your baby drink and drive...

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Sometimes my heart floats along the clouds
drowning in rains and frightened by thunderstorms.
Like wet spells of storm strewn over a youthful summer,
it dwells in a slump, awaiting the sun.

These times when my heart beats a...

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We had missed five days in
The last two weeks
Due to the ice and snow.
Roads and streets had been impassable—
Freezing rain, blowing snow and black ice.
We started the day late at 10 am.
I greeted them at...

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I was dancing and prancing 
And singing whooped Dee Dee
Not realizing I was not alone
Until he opened his shirt to me

He threw out the mayo, some jam and some jelly, a real hoot.
I caught the...

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"Helo," he cried from underneath the ground,
but we buried him too fast,
and the time is past, the sky is ebony,
I can even touch it with one finger,
my wrist dripping diamonds and pearls,
the wrist you grabbed...

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"Help," he cried underneath the ground
but we buried him too fast
and the time is past, the sky is ebony,
I can't even touch it with one finger,
my wrist dripping diamonds and pearls
the wrist you grabbed beneath...

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As the autumn of my life approaches, some memory fades,
But I still recall very special times from my primary grades.
We did things then, now considered politically incorrect,
Enjoying Valentine and Christmas parties - then, no one...

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Over the past five days I have eaten nothing more than one thousand calories.
My hunger fueled me to keep going.
The stomach pains made me feel beautiful.
Doing cardio would make me light-headed, and it made me...

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My nutty week stays long in my memory
My brain didn't process like it would normally
But just to be sure I now lay of the pink gin
I will share you my tale and shall now begin.

Paracetamol...

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Nothing funnier than a bear mouth clown
Telling a joke that not now or ever funny
Drinking frozen lemonade served by the Eveready bunny
Start a joke, it ain't funny
Reality Not All That Sunny
fell down to the ground,...

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