Long Ely Poems

I knew my life was in grave danger when I contacted the FBI desperate plea for dire help IDENTITY FRAUD ON MY LIFE BY IMPOSTER JAY TOWNSEND JOHNSON HENRY received threats from special agent Alan...

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why i took a chance and
decided to try the new poetry 
dot com sight started off great
two months ago until i noticed 

a strange mans face with 
my name and poem completely 
beside myself not...

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Tom Price phones up John Ely. 

"I hear you sell some of the best horses in the county 

I'm sending out my best guy if he likes the goods 
we're buying one of your horses....

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Litany of do this and don’t do that…
My dearest mother is a champion of verbalizing such 
Not as a loquacious orator, but as a virtuous lady*
Exemplifying in her own right Proverbs 31:10-31** of the Bible.

Now...

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Passing through Ilwaco, I was looking for a taco,
I met a girl named Rita all the same.
She took me down the coast, till I burnt her morning toast, she left me with a dollar and...

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THE ARCHAEOLOGIST’S WIFE
Sorry I cannot say her name, you all know her well
She was my brother’s wife at the Kimmerdale
My brother was an archaeologist
He found a pot in Egypt
In Tutankhamen’s chamber
Believe me it was made...

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Ectopic Wanderings

Born far from where
I was supposed to be,
 nearer to the end
I chased the beginning
throughout my life
—forever going home

(Red Lodge Montana: September, 2021)


18kt Memories

I’ll wear a Rolex
once I’m dead,
as accolades surround

The past what’s left
of...

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To be behind a slight disguise
behind those liquid lavender eyes

long search hard to find
a special soul nothing unkind

a feeling strong a heart that’s true
but wait I think they’re deep deep blue

I stare into a certain...

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In 1961 it’s for a weekend away

On a grey winter Friday.

Out from London, 

We drive north on

The A10 to the Wash.

 

Beyond Ely it’s flat and bleak.

It’s an impression we seek

Of a region we’ve not...

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Always work in tandem, and...

     Pray for one another.
          Appreciate one another.
          ...

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Harvesting Pumpkins

From villages in Iowa,
Indiana, Minnesota and Nebraska
and from towns in the Dakotas,
Wisconsin and Michigan,
there stream to Chicago in spring
parades of lithe girls
looking for boys 
who will look at them

but who find instead
men who will...

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Ain’t Nuthin To Do in Lubbock
By David J Walker

The Killer came to town 
Jerry lee Lewis and his pal
Jim Ed Brown 
Playin at the municipal coliseum
To a sell out crowd 
Payin up to 5 bucks...

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Words of Warner is the title of my second book, coming soon
Author, songwriter, musician, producer, philosopher, poet
Recognized as a poet of merit International Society of Poets
Nominated as poet of the year 2007 by The Society...

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The boy is gone
Just wish and let him go
You can travel on
But it’s a new day don’t you know
It’s another dawn
You may find another road
To take a hold of what
You never understood 
Just let him...

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Beware of sister sights that crave your work 
one minute your work debut the next day 

your title even name is in use beware of fake 
sights especially the deceased sight poetry.com

vaguely Howard Ely dissolved...

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There are Scores of fiction and nonfiction mysteries
so enthralling we Call them page-turners,
thousands of Romance books and riveting histories,
many shelves of Illustrated books for eager visual learners,
almanacs that advise us about Planting and seasons,
psychology books...

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The light was brief
on that ' figured leaf '
when man trembled
to the outer spheres,
that once made keep
when the vault was deep
in the omen years ;
the insane rage
of the median age
for a heretic's life,
when the Abbott,...

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Only organic fruits will do...
Rely on nature through and through.
Going to an orchard nearby
And pick our apples 'neath dark sky...
No one around on us to spy.
Into the night we're off to pick...
Cannot be seen, that...

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