Long Commodore Poems

Spiritual Mahjong
Your Move Lord

Is there a God?
A benevolent entity.
An eternal presence presiding over me.
A creator, watching and observing.
All knowing.
Is my end determined and conclusive before it begins, before I begin?
If so, then to what purpose...

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“He fought often and once bled in the cause of freedom, but his habits of War did not lessen in him the peaceful virtues which adorn his private life.”  Doctor Benjamin Rush, signer of...

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Lapsed contra dancer rediscovers his happy place

I tip figurative hat to the late Cathy Robertson, longtime (lifetime) Thomas Paine Unitarian Church member, who unwittingly and quite casually made mention of contra dancing, which inopportunely, inextricably,...

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When the apostles of Jesus Christ, after his ascension into heaven, spread the doctrine
of Christianity throughout the ancient Roman empire.  Those who made their profits in
making pagan idols for worship accused the Apostle Paul...

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On September 10, 1813, United States naval Commodore Oliver Henry made this 
statement from his stunning victory over British forces in Lake Erie in Canada.

"We are have met the enemy and they are ours."

And there...

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With all the world a thousand feet below
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*Image of Hawaii State Flag & State Motto/Seal by Pixabay.
The Great Mahele

The Hawaiian islands were overwhelmed,
In the year eighteen hundred forty-three,
Hawaiians were prisoners, promptly held,
By Captain George Paulet a Lord he'd be.

Constraining the islands for...

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Extinction
                                  ...

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An hour before time, they put her through the motions.
Shoving and pulling her strings adding oil and suntan lotion.
Hot and humid still shining in candid spirit she professes
in music, a monotone but in finesse, a...

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What do computers daydream about?
   Do they wish they talk back or shout?
Without a disc drive,
It would not survive,
   I’m sure it does hate to be cleaned out!

Wonder what floats above...

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Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt
raised you as a monument 
to his empire, and why shouldn’t he.
From humble beginnings his art was 
monopoly. He understood the art in craft, 
it seems, for grand indeed you are. You 
never...

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Whom among you, enticed of
unfathomable riches, the grand
high sea and foreign fruits susceptible
to one valiant commodore,
were invited thus by moonbeams and daydreams?

Mused, are you, of precious pearls
and satiable girls to hear from one ear
but not...

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I starts me life as pirate, 
A grommet before age twelve,
Not an ordinary bandit,
High sea adventures me delve.

With a Letter of Marque in me han’
And the Commodore for me pa!
I spends dogwatch near the helmsman,
Nerey...

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Ham vk4pr

In 1988 I got a puter ,
And it was cuter ,
Than a fowling ferret ,
Yes in the month of may.

Me old commodore 64,
I’d fire up for sure,
And hook up a radio,
to talk to Halliwell,
he...

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Word Toccata in A Major 

Jaundiced ’53 Cadillac in my sweetheart’s carport.
She leaves the hole keys inside the empty fish bowl.
Hidden in her trunk are a set of golf clubs with knife wounds;
Her secret boyfriend...

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1 Crest Road

At 1 crest road computers lurk,
and donkeys they run free.
Theres Halliwell he's hard at work,     (Canadian imported about 1970)
friend of birds cane toads and me.
Look for savage dogs theres...

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1)I've visited Pool Halls at least 100 times, and I ain't yet found a pool there.  I got 
so disgusted, I stopped carrying my bathingsuit around.

2)My girlfriend sent me an Afghan, but I don't...

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On the edge of barren, corroded shore
Where sailors ply their trade no more
No tenured harbor gallant fleets to moor,
or docks to greet restless crew, strident commodore
No expansive peers into the mighty ocean waves bore,
or rustic...

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I love this drug
it makes me sooooo.....mmm
superwomaly
flying to the fifth or sixth dimension of an extension of 
me
Not being self absorbed or super conceited
just longing to be treated as the one 
longing to the one...

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It was in Historic Forcados,
Where I’d first touched Pride of Barbados:
I’d run into A Talking Salvador 
Long arguing with Unshaken Ricardo,
Whose interest were in Stark Bravado,
His body partly building with Mamador …

Bravado-Loving and Preaching Ricardo...

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The first was a wee bird 
How clear the glass 
Its thud was loudly heard 
Rendered it to the earthen grass…
The second was the pig, squealing 
Yielding its life in a blood-letting, crass 
Still heard...

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 Did I even Mention before?
Theres some tension in my core
I can't be silent, no more
I always close my doors
And try to forget unsettled scores
And try to complete undone chores
Try to numb myself
Set on collision...

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Life goes quickly growing up from the use of a commodore 65. 
Perforated print paper 
Really takes your energy.
Fold and Tear!
Fold and Tear!
Every so often the edges 
With the holes placed every millimeter amuse me...

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Wanted sleep – “death will guarantee it, one un-promised morrow”
Hunger panged – “a meal or two skipped, will not ruin your health”
Icky grossness – “psyche your gut strong and start gutting the Ahi”
No appetite –...

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I’ve contemplated my navel
            for hours at a time
          Searching for precisely
   ...

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