Long Collier Poems

Ghosts of Christmas Past

I do not fear the ghosts
of my Christmas past.
My yearly visit with each one
is a gift
a present
for this one day

I drive out to Lantzville Beach
and bring my dog along
My mother loved dogs...

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"The Mute Hearts of Babylon"



the day 
the poets died
a cloud past
over the eyes
of those 
who required
the dance
in music

storms
calmly stole 
electric love 
the new arrivals
raged on
while the 
beautiful dreamers 
woke too late

sunk raptures
looped on cue
sucked in...

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Me father was a collier, worked Harton off the coast 
Though he rattled from the coal dust he was whiter than a ghost 
But the one thing that reviled him in his God-forsaken post
Was the...

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My Dearest Most Only BeLoved Lenore, I woke up this morning with the warmth of the Sun cascading on my face.The morning Doves singing for YOUR Happiness in Glory.If YOU are reading this on YOUR...

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Oh, What Is Life?
(Written for  Kay Collier McLaughlin-With gratitude to Thomas Merton)———
What?  What is life?
No concise, assuaging answer comes.
For there are no stepping stones outside
For a clear, examining view...
Except, perhaps, to wander through
Our...

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The old school bell would ring out at the start of the day.
Chalk on blackboards, shirts and ties.
The school colours of green and gold.
Crowded classrooms, with very little room.

Lunchtimes were spent in classrooms,small and crampt.
No...

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Hatcher Hollow is old white colonizer's country
my cousin sold me this precious land property
My ancestors lived im Mc Ewen  Tn for centuries
my ancestors lived and died in Humphrey county
 my people were native on...

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Heartthrob in damsel drag
Belief of human bile
Completely instilling cascading dregs of mechanical flesh, bones and spit
64th avenue 
And coiling deft doom
Winged balls of bulging blood and speckled steel
Merry wails and flutters of moths unsealed 
Fitted...

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My British grandparents Thomas and Susan Collier were American original descendants. 
they sailed the rough sea for their independence 
I believe they came on the mayflower voyage ship and landed in America 1620
I know their...

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"Pony" 




Taken
Lead
By Whisper, 
Bit 

(LadyLabyrinth / 2020) 







"Old Town Road + Pony Mashup" 
Lil Nas X Ginuwine Pomplamoose
 (Extended Music Video) 
https://youtu.be/OTdSOXUT5lM 




"My fascination with letting 
images repeat and repeat 
- or in film's case...

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I heard our ancestors came on the mayflower boat
sad part there was not a journal or a note
it sounds like a miracle my early grandparents Thomas and Susan Collier landed on Plymouth rock
a vision of...

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I wondered what you saw in my sweet Eve; 
Love, I did not see in your charming spouse.

Last night sat on my head to spit venom; 
Claimed you were good for nothing; down under. 
Beggar...

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Our first bloodline land grand owner was Daniel Collier born  1775 in Sussex  Virginia  in my family tree
the next following heirs  had land by ;Benjamin Green berry collier, Hugh Collier ...

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Carrying worn suitcases packed tightly
with meager possessions, lofty dreams,
bringing hearts filled
with longings
for the familiarity of homelands
and family left behind,
they came to America.

Schowengerdt, Rabun, Mazzei,
Erickson, Keeton and Rausch.
RaGusa, Martin, Devries,
Kaplan, Renfro, Czypryzs,
Morrissey, Hartpence, Colbert,
Collier, Roth, Proia...

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Tea with Gran,her muffins supreme,
Bath and change and hair brylcreamed.
into town to the pub in the square, 
our gang always met there.
Checking the football scores 
in the Oxford 'green un'.

Trad jazz with Donegan,Bilk or Collier...

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Tea with Gran,her muffins supreme,
Bath and change and hair brylcreamed.
into town to the pub in the square, 
our gang always met there.
Checking the football scores 
in the Oxford 'green un'.

Trad jazz with Donegan,Bilk or Collier...

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Maddi Collier


          Nice

          Polite

          Helpful

   ...

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Lost was poor Mathilde, caught between two worlds.
Everything she possessed was inadequate, not even a gown that cost 400 francs

Could satisfy her endless greediness.
Only a necklace that she borrowed from a wealthy friend, only a...

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I wonder how things would be if I lived my origin and was apart of my tribe
I wonder what i could learn about my ancestry  and how my thought and feelings would vibe
the fruit...

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