Long Columbo Poems

When I was a lad
And still wet behind the ears
Things often puzzled me
And was too young to understand
Like the saying the Birds 
And the Bees

I thought in my little tiny mind
Do they mean bees wear...

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Charlie’s Angels, 
 Starsky and Hutch,
 Welcome Back Cotter,
 The Brady Bunch.
 I think I watched TV too much!

 Columbo,
 The Partridge Family,
 Lucille Ball,
 I must confess I viewed them all.

   ...

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Only the Real OG's will remember. 
All of these old movies are from back in the day.
Some of you will remember and some of you won't have a clue of what I am talking about.
Let's...

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A Good Mystery


I love a good mystery
A real whodunit,
I love the Hallmark Mystery and Movie Channel,
Nothing like watching Andy Griffith play the part of “Matlock”
He always figured it out
And revealed who the murderer is in...

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Nature

sounds and waves
transfix in keys
trees refines fine lines made
faded leaving leaves fall
fragile Merc
roads leading to nowhere
fine hair
water fluidity and stupidity
stamps mad cramps
stamp to punctuality
staircase spiraling to disintegration
major appreciation
columbo toad
old crackling code
engineers and Arche
marshes shaded
coiled rope...

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I get lost in the moment watching and reading about certain mysteries
48 hours is a particular show where I feel like I'm at the crime scene
and the head line news on the tube and especially...

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  Do you recall?
Felix the cat,
Or Taxi and Kojak.

Fantasy Island and 
Starsky and Hutch.
Monty Python and
The Brady bunch.

   Saturday cartoons and
Mission impossible.
 Batman and The Streets 
of San Francisco.

   Cling...

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Tony
Joe
Frank 
Theo
These iconic names, 
for those who don’t know,
are four cool detective cats ... 
television Five-O

Mr. Barretta
Sgt. Friday
Lt. Columbo
T. Kojak ... who loves you, baby!
These Five-O cool cats,
they always make a righteous arrest
Badge of honor
pinned...

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I watched Columbo season after season,
Amazed at how close we were in unkempt appearance,
Disregard for fashion, comfortable in the same clothes

He had a soft non-threatening way about him
The perpetrators were never worried,
Sure they could outsmart...

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I have something to say and it isn't just talk.
We lost an actor who was named Peter Falk.
He always beat the bad guy at the end of each show.
Falk did an excellent job as Lieutenant...

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He was an exceptional actor but now he's gone.
The man who I'm speaking of was Robert Vaughn.
Vaughn starred in The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and twice on Columbo.
He starred in Escape From Witch Mountain and The...

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When I did him wrong, I knew that he'd try to get revenge in the future.
He was a doctor who operated on me and he used the wrong suture.
When I met my wife, he and...

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I committed murder and I have bad news.
Columbo is on the case and that means I'll lose.
Columbo always catches people when murder is the crime.
He always uses his skill as a detective but not this...

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