Long Done up Poems

Part I.

Harvest time was winding down, 
I was taking lunch in town, 
After spending six long hours plowing stubble.
Washing up I met a man, 
Guessed he was a harvest hand, 
His combine crew, he said,...

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I recall the day she journeyed to the delta from her village above the first cataphract with a New Kingdom attitude and an Old Kingdom strut, inspiring rumors to be passed from shadoof to shadoof...

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(I memo as if yesterday)
As I entered in unto my momma's house
Upon to which she dwelt
There's Such Magnificent Love within the air
So Enormous Peace... and Sweetness ever
I saw her sitting in her chair
I ask her...

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..He didn’t return to the patriarchs,
he just e-mailed them a resignation,
they gave their regrets, but they understood,
fifteen years was tough in this occupation.
He bought a small place outside Rapid City,
out in the broad prairie, for...

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Man, seldom a straightforward animal, 
Long lost in the deserts of weariness,
Wants to flee from a life of denial, 
Wallows no less still in piles of warm ash,
 
And feeling hurt, he nurses hidden strife,...

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Oodles Of Google Doodles...

visually delicious as  germane strudels
the following cooked years ago
courtesy me noggin awash with noodles.

Yours truly crafted remaining poem
around 27th July 2018
idea arose within me cerebral dome.

...As poetic theme came to mind
...

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In Skagway town, eighteen ninety-eight
Lived a young man, Elliot McKay.
He worked with his father selling dry goods,
To the miners heading Klondike-way,
They made some good coin in a day.

Elliot he, like most younger men,
Had an eye...

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There’s a party tonight so I bouffe up my hair
Pamper and powder my sweet derrière,
Arrive at the door, all done up to impress.....
Oh man, I forgot! Invite said “fancy dress”!

Pete and Sue are here, seems...

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who knew who knew?
The story ends
hands clean and messy
someone stupid like you?
indecently in the mirror i see

bullets blue dont you know
flies know what you are
authorities alive thought i might die
eyes take a good look
smiling gunshot...

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No, I am not oppressed. 
What I am, is tired. I’m tired of all of the things that have happened in my lifetime. Tired of the things to come. Tired of the pain.
If you want...

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Hmm...What Discursive Poetic Theme Shall I Write About...

Today (a rather brisk, chilly,
and otherwise sat
tiss factory twirly delightful
December 18th, 2018) matte
her of fact quite
refreshing noontime, while this fat

tend plot of Earthen surveyed terrain
situated over scat
herd modest...

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Mr Wiz, Munchkin Land
Be so kind to lend a hand...

Cartwheeling cottage? how daft is that
Landed quite safely, all level and flat
Some midget fellow said, who else heard that
I think ‘Wicked Westie’ might just have gone...

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Time spells 
out a harsh 
reflection, 
sometimes.


Lifeless, pale... 
holes under your-
knees... on your ankles, 
up and down your arms.


Hate fills him now, oh, his-
rage, my Brother Ronnie, 
says, 

"It isn't so!"


Dad, He knows.


I have no...

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a young girl, 
hair done up in braids.
I see a smile that could stop traffic on the streets.
I see her as the sun that shines 
behind the grey clouds on the horizion
of poverty and sorrow....

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Today’s winds acting tough 
Arguing with the ocean waves getting rough 
“What is this stuff?
Enough Enough!!” 
Man commented on the land 
About the natural fan 
“Would you chill? 
Doing this at will?” 
But the whirling...

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I opened the box lid to the land of dance
Which is located in a beautiful velveteen square pink box.
A magnificent place where a fantastic palace shines
In the center of the palace is the world's greatest...

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When you felt yourself get close
You slammed your door shut
You didn't wanna take that chance - 'cause you thought you'd get cut
What I had done up until that point seemed never to be enough
You said...

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Dog Master 

By 

Kevin L Fairbrother 

Fifty dogs all different in size and shape
Impossible to tell the type of breed, mate
All the dogs have a discriptive and unique name
Irene, knows them all, for none are...

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Always young at heart and old in soul
never at ease in the linked up, stuck-up clichés
of childhood or the bizarre unfriendly world of adulthood,
I always roared…at five my boyfriend Dave was four.
He was a good...

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I watch women leave with assorted bodies, bulky purses, proudly displaying their newly-done up rainbow hair, blue streak hair, purple yarn hair, six braid in a bush hair, beaded, feathered and flowered hair. 
 ...

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Seven years old-
I learned about her Easter Sunday Night-
on the Channel 9 news.
It was to have been a very special Easter-
not that all Easters aren’t special-
to most children.
But this one was different-
not in the normal...

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It was the last year of high school and there was a lack of beaux,
But then I got an invite. Whew, that was close!
So now the Prom was coming and I was going to go!
Mom...

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Twas winter ninety-seven, all around the town
Houses lit up magically, parties all around.
Boyfriend says, come with me, to works Christmas dinner,
Dress up chic and sexy, looking like a winner.

Hair all done up, makeup on, gown...

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Alex, only 3-yrs. old; insisted I take her out in the blinding blizzard!
She knew which neighbors had candy!
Snow drifts were swirling over 3-ft. by now!
I told her "Alexandra, if you'll put a snowsuit over your...

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Rick For Short
By Rick Rucker

There were two Richards in my class,
One of us had to change his name,
As Rick Nelson had risen to fame,
I changed mine to Rick, it might win me a lass!

I didn’t...

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