Long Crawford Poems

AFTER THE HIT ON MY LIFE MY LIFE CHANGED IN AN INSTANT A CICERO CAR BOMB IGNITED MY FACE IT WAS MEANT TO BLOW MY BRAINS OUT THROUGH MY EYE BALL GARGANO HAD EVER THING...

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Roaring Twenties

Nostalgia and age like bacon and eggs,
With buttered toast and jam on the side for breakfast;
And coffee, and a glass of orange juice to drink,
And a memory in-between to rethink.

The day begins with boring...

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IT BEGAN WITH ARSON MURDER OF 8 CHRISMAS DAY THE FBI WARNED ME MY ABUSIVE EX HUSBAND AND CIRO GARGANO KILLED 8 PERSONS I BEGAN WEARING WIRES PREGNANT FOR THE FBI BUYING WEAPONS AND DRUGS...

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by Carolyn V. Crawford AKA Rachel Dunkerque

Evalina, Evalina,
Won't you come on and shout!
You didn't come up to Heaven
To sit down and pout.

AH KIN POUT EF AH WANNA, LAWD
AH'M TOO TIRED TO SHOUT.
BEEN A LONG TIME...

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Time To Cook the Rolls 

“Honey, turn on the oven to 350; the movie is starting!”

Soupy Sales is kicking back with June Taylor at Studio 50.
He is flirting with her leggy dancers as they feed...

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(a holiday vignette)

I’m taking a chunk of my holi-days to work on my thesis (So is Lisa). Without classes we can fully devote our minds to them.
My senior thesis hangs over me, I can’t ignore...

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Trinbago massive


A lady in America asking me
To tell her something bout Trinidad
She planning a vacation soon
And want to go there real bad

She wants to hear everything
About the culture and the foods
Steel pan and calypso 
And...

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Special Agent Kevin Dreary was very shy red hair eyes reminded me of Prince Harry he was very eager but this could have got me killed he teamed up with my brother in law Sgt...

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by Rachel Dunkerque AKA Carolyn V. Crawford
(lyric and melody)

Dear God, Dear God, Dear God
Dear God, Dear God, Dear God
Dear God, Dear God, Dear God

Dear God,
I thought I'd write
These next few lines to you
I put down...

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LONESOME
SOUND 
			
Old man said he could hear that whistle blow a hundred miles 
and they could write a song about that. 
Said he could tell how many cars a train freighted 
just by how sad...

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SHELTER
By Carolyn V. Crawford AKA Rachel Dunkerque

Against the wind she bent and swayed
She fought to shield me from the pain,
That burst along on gusty gales
Then turned to angry, pelting rain.

I tried to hear the scattered...

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By Carolyn V. Crawford AKA Rachel Dunkerque

Against the wind she bent and swayed
She fought to shield me from the pain,
That burst along on gusty gales
Then turned to angry, pelting rain.

I tried to hear the scattered...

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by Rachel Dunkerque AKA Carolyn V. Crawford
(lyric and melody)

There was a tree, 'longside a road
It stood alone, bore well its load
And it never sought attention
     from the road as it passed...

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by Rachel Dunkerque AKA Carolyn V. Crawford
(lyric and melody)

I took the time to scratch your hair
I took the time to clip your nails
And I even picked the pimples from the velvet of you face
Ironed your...

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by Rachel Dunkerque AKA Carolyn V. Crawford
(lyric and melody)

You yearn to hear me whisper, your name against your chest
Taste my lips in the kiss of a pouring rain
Under skies on fire with God's fine play
You...

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By Carolyn V. Crawford AKA Rachel Dunkerque

Let's plant the field again with corn
Like the time in the years when first I was born
When the green of the field filled the early morn
Let's plant the field...

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My life is full of unrealistic dreams
Dreams that I know will never come true
Life at times falls apart at the seams
But there is really nothing I can do
There are dreams however that do come true
Some...

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Last year I wrote of a Red Sox team
The fans did not exactly scream
They could not swing, field or hit
Last place was theirs, that was it.

But John Henry said  ENOUGH  of that
I will...

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By Rachel Dunkerque AKA Carolyn V. Crawford
(lyric and melody)

A blazing sun burned cold behind my face
The day you turned and walked across the space
Into the arms of one from school-year days
Left me alone to yearn...

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In the calm of white,
I find sweet serenity
As the winter rain
Beats my frozen brow,
Like Joan Crawford and a dozen wire hangers.
Natures's confetti,
I dance in the shower
As I drop all my insecurities 
That plague this sweatered...

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yes, life is an ocean & i’m staying afloat like oil in water
protecting my soul & living the full potential of my breath & grinding harder
part 1 was me painting a picture of how no...

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by Rachel Dunkerque AKA Carolyn V. Crawford
(lyric and melody)

Can't you see, how I feel
The essence of me quivers
When it's you I'm near
Look my way, let me say
How much I love you.

Can't you tell, deep in...

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You were a great actor who was often cast in tough-guy roles.
You did a fantastic job as a police officer on Highway Patrol.
You passed away in 1986 at the age of seventy-four.
When you died, you...

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Simple kicks on her feet;
Baggy jeans, baggy sweats.
Even baggier T-shirts.

A rocking natural hairstyle;
Even turn bald.
Bare ears, bare nails. 

Coolio, Eazy E (N.W.A.).
2pac, Biggy, a lot of T-bone/Kirk Franklin.
Bursting her ears deaf.

Pen, paper.
Nature, surroundings.
No noise, silence.

But...

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I got married too young to a girl whose name was Cindy
After almost ten years she decided to end it with me
Several years later I married a girl named Cindy, too
My family now refers to...

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