Long Coattails Poems

That's my dad for you... getting his hands deep into the knitty-gritty, when most others would just back off a safe distance away saying, "No thanks! Maybe when Armageddon comes a'knocking we can talk religion,...

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MY adventure began no less than upon this chilling night when homes of many lower their shades and kill the light. 

As sullen souls lay down for bed and fall into their dreams some common...

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You ask, Do I believe in miracles? Have I seen healing outside the Bible?
Is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit accessible –
To me and you, beyond the Book of Acts, after Pentecost -
Is the age...

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Politicians put their souls for sale
So they can sip cocktails
Riding the coattails of the working class
It's a mass barrage of phonies and poison gas
But everyone's going too fast to take a stand
And demand the justice...

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Who’s Texas oil rich, just five-feet-six
and always seems to get out of a fix?
He’s married with four kids, and eyes bright blue -
a guy you love to hate. . . Still need a clue?

He came...

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If I Were A Millionaire

If I were a millionaire....
There goes the plaintive cry of a popular song..
What a catchy phrase to incite one to dream on...
In the daily grind of making a living we are...

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The universe revolves around patterns and numbers.
Like an insomniac knowing not the meaning of the word slumber.
To say it's a big place would be a gross understatement.
If it were a face we'd be living on...

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Scars are the path to the soul,
Road signs written after the wounds occurred, 
Storm clouds fogging thought process,
Actions retell the history of the city in which your heart reside,
Words collide and battle intentions in vicious...

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The pendulum swings
(Left to right)

Zenith approaches
The vortex opens up…

With head spinning
My spin is heading
Towards your light
On the coattails of a watch and chain…

Tumbling down the word hole
Collecting words,
From the wall of air
That surrounds me,
To consume...

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Verses in italics by Jesse Whitehead
Verses in normal font by Timothy Hicks



birds in tuxedos
marching through snow
stifled laughter
 
a pair of short legs
behind the coats
 
patient as molasses
a surprise in waiting
tiny curled toes
 
it slipped through...

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In the day time!
in the day time, she said:
yes in the freakin day.
Twenty six limos
one chef, a full staff
bouncers, a bartender and people glamour.
we are gonna honor with trophies
peoples who needez-ah recognition.
when the sun begins...

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Some do this because they
are good at it and some do this
simply because they can

And so to have excelled and
both had an affinity and natural 
ability to do it since school

Lucky to posess a high...

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An Incentive to Excel
Written: by Tom Wright
6/24/2018

Employee compensation should be based on merit,
But the slackers among us never want to hear it.

For each has a skill set that we bring to the table,
With an ability...

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Sorry ,
My friend and confident of days old

Do not fret
Regret is wasted until the cost is met

I still hold you in high regard 
I still remember you covered in your mothers make-up 
And sitting on...

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Lofty oracle did with ceremonious rite fealty ordain
Two eagles soared on fecund mountain terrain
As twin peaks, sipped frothy dew from Venus's fountain
For a fortnight, rapturous clouds danced o'er my satin mane
But euphoric heights could not...

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She unleashed them easily, 
dropping them onto their noses, 
as they fell off her coattails as easily 
as spiders are shaken off a slippery web

“Bye!” she said, pretending it was not 
“Forever bye” which it...

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PARADISE
          My childhood
        it was my paradise ...
         Now an adult,
...

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I try to establish strong mental footholds
In resemblance to fort knox physical strongholds
Through repentance I lost the spiritual blindfold
So every sentence I mock material billfolds

I seek an understanding of answers beyond the proven
Discreet but demanding...

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My kid sister, nosy parker, 
sneaky peeker, what a pest! 
always hangin' on my coattails, 
never fails, unwelcome guest. 
Precocious tomboy, she would try 
to muscle in on ev'ry mission, 
pester me with crazy questions,...

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My kid sister, nosy parker, 
sneaky peeker, what a pest! 
always hangin' on my coattails, 
never fails, unwelcome guest. 
Precocious tomboy, she would try 
to muscle in on ev'ry mission, 
pester me with crazy questions,...

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It began with rain, pelting
yellow daffodils to the ground.
Sleet rode rain's coattails,
staccato dings on our windshield.

In the empty parking lot,
black-lettered buses stood
empty; no church today.

Through potato-soup lunch,
we watched quarter-size
snowflakes cover sleet.
Over hours of a long,...

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Again words have failed me, creating a blank.
I feel like a pirate who's walking the plank.
With a head full of thoughts that will plunge to the death.
I wish words would flow like the lines of...

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I
 Lord, without You, what is time?
 Over and over, Seconds may drag like days 
Revealing relativity, time is not a thing
Deliver me from vanity, "All is vanity," wrote Solomon, who asked You for wisdom...

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From far and wide.
To see the
Big Island Rattlers
Verses
The Desert Snears
Alot of planning
Across sport negotiations
Stuff to say in conversation
Nothing's ever been like
This before.
From riding someone's coattails
To individual dominance
Secure the worm
and cast the rod
there really jumping tonight
Tune...

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From far and wide.
To see the
Big Island Rattlers
Verses
The Desert Snears
Alot of planning
Across sport negotiations
Stuff to say in conversation
Nothing's ever been like
This before.
From riding someone's coattails
To individual dominance
Secure the worm
and cast the rod
there really jumping tonight
Tune...

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