Long Dayton Poems

"I am a rock                               ...

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Hellboy danced with the best of them,
With a record here, though incomplete...
Winning almost all of the time,
What a miraculous feat!


Date Opponent Location Result
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XXxX Hecate L (fatality)
2004 Rasputin W
XXxX osiris club W
XXxX Witch L (fatality)
XXxX Dragon...

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~ Ode To Helen Steiner Rice~ 
 (1900- 1980 )
( Blood Quill )



Lovely lady she shine
She persevered through life
Wrote thousands verses of  Love, Faith, Hope
Ambassador Sunshine
Daughter, sister and wife
She fought hard all thru her...

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~Ode To Helen Steiner Rice~
(1900-1981 
(Monchielle) 


Lovely lady, she shines 
Ambass'dor of Sunshine 
Daughter, sister and wife 
Upliftin' poems she wrote 
She persevered through strife 

Lovely lady, she shines 
She's famous poetess 
Wrote verses of...

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~ Ode To Helen Steiner Rice~ 
 (1900- 1980 )
( Blood Quill )


Lovely lady she shine
She persevered through life
Wrote thousands verses of Faith, Love, Hope
Ambassador Sunshine
Daughter, sister, writer, wife
She fought hard all thru her life...

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Fierce fighting raged, but surprise was gone,
the Americans rallied and pushed hard,
the Indians fell back, out of the ravine,
the patriots driving them that far.

Hand-to-hand combat broke out brutally,
with knives, clubs, and rifle-stocks,
Iroquois would wait until...

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I was hitchhiking home to Dayton
From my Columbus college dorm
It was an early winter’s morning
I layered my clothes to stay warm

I stood on the ramp to the highway
Watching early commuters pass me by
I tried to...

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I
The form we take
In the shape of a life
From trumpet birth blasts
To the final shadow sighs
The faithful leap
From a Dayton hill
To silver supersonic flight
A mountain of yellowing
Paper words and work
Of worn shoes
Discarded styles
An inland lake...

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Most of my Lix spittle 
+ four additional anniversaries 
since exiting birth canal 
as full term newborn 
re: minimally viable existence
post doc severance umbilical cord,
nevertheless yours truly

found himself figuratively
linkedin and tethered to lifeline
particularly in formative...

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Walking the streets of  Dayton
Warning my city of the Lord’s soon arrival
Explaining the Mark of the Beast
And tribulation survival
What’s it gonna take to escape the things coming upon this earth?
I’ve been hearing stories about...

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       Virtual Insanity Becomes World Reality
 
The accursed news, so  obviously painful to this poetess!
That we earthlings decided were in need no of divine intervention.
Yes…wanting none of God's...

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Tied up in the Moment
A beautiful women layed out on a large bed with red Dayton silk sheets, pillows everywhere, her silky locks cascading down onto the pillow beside her as she looks over at...

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COWARDS, NOT HEROESv

Cowards, not heroes, Call them what they are
Not Martyrs, killers of babies, children, people both near and far
Cowards not heroes, not terrorists, Call them what they are

How much courage does it take to...

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So obviously,painful to this poetess!
That we earthlings need divine intervention.
Yet~wanting none of God's attention?
Oh, indeed some will scoff and pay no heed.

Get real, my friends!
How many more bodies do you need?
El Paso, Dayton, and Chicago...

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How can I fly like a bird he dreamed
this man and his brother, with little formal education.
So they dreamed and watched,
they studied and read.
Dickens and Twain, Virgil and Plutarch also.

They worked hard in Dayton and...

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It was 20 years ago…the year was 1999
and we thought the world would change….after Columbine

We hoped something would be done
after children were gunned down with their books
We thought the world would change…
and then came Sandy...

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We accept tornadoes here,
expect them, tick them off
as they pass by like demon dreidels.
Usually they are not a big deal
unless they are.
Spring culls its little lambs
in all sorts of ways.

The murder rate in Chicago
climbs ever...

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Downtown Dayton cityscape
can be seen clearly (on a clear day)
from the grassy knoll on top
of the Woodlands cemetery.

Most of the more fancy mausoleums
face any other way though,
as if the successfully dead
had prospered and were now
disinterested...

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So Risque

Racy
Casey

His Mind’s on the Moon

Spacey
Casey

Great Sprinter

Darter
Carter

Crybaby

Bawlin’
Colin

Always in a Rush

Boltin’
Coltin

Puppies for Sale

Daniel’s 
Spaniels

Don’t Cross Him

Callous
Dallas

Witch Doctor

Shaman
Damon

The Manny

Nanny
Danny

The Anti-Hero

Villain
Dylan

To Stop His Slouching

Straighten
Dayton

Wild Child

Feral 
Darrell

He Can’t Keep Secrets

Don’t tell
Darnell

Pretty Boy

Bonny
Donny

The Vigorous One

Lusty 
Dusty

Out of Practice

Rusty 
Dusty

Irritable Grandpa

Crusty
Dusty

Mr....

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From the Ohio River to the Great Lake Erie.
If they come from Cleveland, or south in Cincinnati,
these talented persons’ works are the ones we should see.
They have written some of this site’s greatest poetry.
They may...

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On December 17th, 1903,
Wilbur and Orville Wright.
Two brothers from Dayton, Ohio
For 12 seconds successfully gave flight.

Those 12 seconds brought them fame,
The plane landed 120 feet away.
A photographer preserved the moment,
As they flew four times that...

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