Long Down home Poems

"Yes, this is all still so amazing what impacts the soul truly; and in what ways." This fond endearment was in the Spring Time of our Love as I remember. A perfected shoo-in. 

This was...

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Home is where the heart is,
Or so the saying goes.
There Is really much more than this,
As everyone, surely, knows.

Home is where you hang your hat,
Is another slogan that Is nifty.
There’s much, much more than that
In...

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~ (~) "Amazing what-impacts the-soul; and-in what ways." (~) ~
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~ (~) It-was in the-spring time-of our-love-as I remember, it was the greatest of the many 
gracious things, a life you pray always remains; something
the pain,...

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a broken soul hidden in an empty home
wanted to leave, but there was no where to go
a mother's heart broken into two
wanted to stop the pain, but there was nothing anyone could do
a cold presence...

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Old City Park I went last night,
Admission price, it's outta sight,
Night it was the weather was cold,
Many were there young and the old,
Hotel, office, homes to go through,
Better walk fast else you turn blue,
With Walt,...

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I reached into the depth...
But could not withdraw  Excalibur from the stone.
Yet I knew I was the one.
Why else my 'Grail Vision' in the sun?
The depths call me to reach further still.
And Mary's eyes...

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So many trials seem to be filled up with so much fear
So many ask, “Oh Dear Lord, what am I doing here”?

So many questions that I have come to know
If we just plant a seed,...

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The generous character-carried-by them good-old-girls-and boys down-home country-copper-
roof-all filled-up-silos-wheat-turbines waiting ready outside the barn deer-skins pegged down 
low the greater-story askant-of curiosity carrying the pureness of a child as to why... . 
Smoked-up hickory-honey-bubbling bacon...

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VERSE 1.It was 1965 when my great uncle died
And we attended his funeral
There was an old man singing
Some down home ole singin
Preaching the words with this voice
Whooping and hollering so

So the choir sung with and...

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Sitting here in the dark thinking

Thinking,

Listening to Johnnie Taylor

Taking me back down that old

Memory lane..

Singing “I believe in you”

While the rain beats against my

Window pane..

All the fun memories of my

School days ring out loud &

Clear..

While...

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Sing me a old down-home song;
Sing to me some blues.
Syncopate the drums, sing loud and long.
Sing to me some blues.
Tell of people, from a homeland ripped,
Packed like sardines, cross the ocean shipped,
Remember to me bodies...

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Horse meat’s tender and horse meat’s lean.
Makes the best damn meal that you ever did eat.
It’s cheaper than beef and bigger than goat.
Horse meat is the way to go.

You can fry it on up, and...

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Sweat sticky between
eyebrows, deuces
wild 
Like his eyes, those
lonesome dove eyes 
Prairie eyes, ice
cool despite the
rising heat 
Choking heat,
boiling on a frying
pan 
Round and round
those tables, red
and black 
Elbows and anger,
shiny greasy metal, 
Gin bellows and...

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The old wood building is sadly vacant and needs repairs,
      but I have a dream to purchase it and bring it back to life;
it was a general store so I...

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Could I ever forget you my little paternal home?
Your reminiscence haunts me however far I might roam.

That mysterious nook wherein my mother gave me birth,
That treasure-chamber, where there never had been dearth for mirth...

That corner...

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Listen Up, all good citizens of Milton Creek
If it's a night on the town and good food you seek
Come over to Aces
With your smilin' faces
The Grand Reopening's tonight. Come, take a peek!

Milt left his Aces...

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I'm just a lowly cheddar cheese ball, come roll away with me
past gastronomical delights, to taste and smell and see
varieties of cheeses that stretch on across the miles
that vie for the attention of hungry cheese-o-philes!

Some...

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The Farmers Lament 

Sitting on the porch of a run-down home 
The old man gazed toward the setting sun 
As it was sinking in the west
After all his chores were done 

The land, was the...

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The thatch up higher
on the P. O. roof
a touch of home
as not aloof!

I estimate my grain of salt
not of default
what e'er is left
within the vault!

The stamp, still cheap
for all the business worth,
a sentinel of giving
Govee's...

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A beatifull evening
Unlocking horizon
Burying fantazies
Deadly arrows flying trough
Fearsome enemies
Breaking our hold
Giving up on front lines
Is a face of ice
Cold for winter
Warm for summer
Wine drinks the mans heart
Knowlege comes from the outher heaven
Blood stands still
For a...

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Down home cooking is the thing to know.
Baking,frying and cooking food real slow.

Going to pot luck suppers and a bake sale.
Frying up some hushpuppies and pulling fish 
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The smell of beer glides across the room,
The darkness, sweet and deep
With smoke stacked like lumber,
Covering the cracks.
The roaches take shield.

Stiff lipped cockroaches that bite,
Their flaky smell covered by the beer,
But in dim silences their...

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Narratives or at least that's what I call them

Without doubt win hands down every time

I've deviated with limericks and couplets and stuff

But I'm back to the old poems that rhyme

Very similar to when we go...

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She’s a buxom blonde with a pretty face,
Who carries herself with such strength and grace.
From the humblest of beginnings, she got her start
Her songs are sweet poetry that comes from the heart.

There’s power in her...

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Dark haired Anne of Green Gables
Freckles and playfully naughty giggle
Hailed from Prince Edward Island

Easygoing bon vivant friendly nature
Everyone couldn’t help but love you
Your nonchalant laissez-faire demeanour
Often made you look as cute as Pippi Longstocking

You were...

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