Long Ernie Poems
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My Nolan Ryan StoryGROWING UP ACROSS THE STREET FROM
TIGER STADIUM HAS ITS ADVANTAGE
AND DISADVANTAGES.
BEING A YOUNGSTER
HOT HUMID MUGGY SUMMER NIGHT.
DETROIT MICHIGAN.
JULY NINETEEN HUNDRED AND 73
WOULD TURN OUT TO BE A VERY
COLD
NIGHT.
IN THE MOST UNTHINKABLE WAY.
RUNNING AROUND...
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Categories:
ernie, baseball, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Muppets In the Soup - Join InWrite a limerick of your own about a Muppet.
If you post it in a comment or in soup mail to me,
and I find it appropriate, I'll add it on. ;-)
Sesame Street's Count von...
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Categories:
ernie, fun,
Form:
Limerick
The 42 Inch HallwayThe 42 Inch Hallway
We’re stepping along the musty hallway now.
I am taking us on a fast-moving memory ride;
A mind-bending groovy slide to 1965,
When Dylan music was seeping loudly like a germ,
Down the green-carpeted hallway of...
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Categories:
ernie, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Tarentino At the Piggly WigglyTwo Young Checkers
(Rhonda) I’m hearing you Louise.
Ya know my son is still suffering from a (Semester Meltdown) because the (Federal Budget)
will no longer be funding a program for poets in residence. He said...
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Categories:
ernie, on writing and wordsme, old, me, old,
Form:
Narrative
Ever Jumped a Train - Part 7 - Robert and Ernie AdventuresThere Ernie and I were standing, at the edge of dark steps,
They descended into a concrete tunnel to somewhere below.
Robert, do you think she could have gone down there he said,
I don't know Ernie, but...
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Categories:
ernie, adventure, childhood, travel,
Form:
Narrative
Ever Jumped a Train - Part 5 - Robert and Ernie Adventures I woke up that next morning after arriving in New York,
Oh boy was my stomach sore from laughing so hard last night.
Could tell Ernie was dreaming as his eyes were in REM mode,
Noticed his...
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Categories:
ernie, adventure, growing up, travel,
Form:
Narrative
Ever Jumped a TrainEver Jumped A Train?
I have and it took me on a ride I'll never forget,
A journey like no other I have ever taken.
Traveling along those rails in open door box car,
Watched beauty of many states...
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Categories:
ernie, writing,
Form:
Narrative
Ever Jumped a Train - Part 8 - Robert and Ernie AdventuresAs we reached the top of those stairs the sun was blazing,
Ernie peeked his head out of my pocket and screeched,
Robert, he said, I think I've gone blind, I can't see,
Just let your eyes adjust...
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Categories:
ernie, adventure, growing up, travel,
Form:
Narrative
Ever Jumped a Train - Part 6 - Robert and Ernie AdventuresHere Ernie and I were in this loud New York train yard,
I had just promised him I'd try to save his new found love.
She was a fair haired mouse, in fact her fur was so...
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Categories:
ernie, adventure, growing up,
Form:
Narrative
Crocodile Chit - ChatCROCODILE CHIT - CHAT
So there am I sitting, basking, mouth wide-open in the swamp,
An Egyptian plover just a-cleaning my teeth - ...
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Categories:
ernie, funnyme, old, me, old, mum,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Ever Jumped a Train - Part 4 - Robert and Ernie AdventuresThat train took us north after our Washington D.C. stop,
Suddenly there it was looming grand on the horizon.
I told Ernie I was so excited to see the Big Apple,
He blinked up at me with that...
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Categories:
ernie, adventure, growing up, travel,
Form:
Narrative
Ever Jumped a Train - Part 10 - Robert and Ernie AdventuresWell, I had promised Ernie and Snowy I'd walk them downtown,
It was cold so I tucked them warmly inside my jacket pocket.
Sneaking out of that rail yard in daylight was quite tricky,
I guess by now...
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Categories:
ernie, adventure, growing up, travel,
Form:
Narrative
Ever Jumped a Train - Part 2 - Robert and Ernie AdventuresOne morning I sat down with Ernie to explain English,
I know you're a mouse but that squeak can only go so far.
He looked up at me blinked and then bared his teeth,
I said I'll take...
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Categories:
ernie, friendship, growing up, travel,
Form:
Narrative
Avid Bookworms On the LooseThe American Library Association
implores cognoscenti tubby alert
for impersonators, who
call themselves Ernie and Bert
took a page from Sesame Street Playbook
oft...
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Categories:
ernie, adventure, august, books, courage, fate, food, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Ever Jumped a Train - Part 3 - Robert and Ernie AdventuresOne morning Ernie and I awoke to a noisy train yard,
It was that place many hitchers feared known as Chicago.
Since Ernie had traveled there before he warned me,
In that little voice he said don't open...
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Categories:
ernie, adventure, growing up, travel,
Form:
Narrative
Unpleasant Bruises To a Pg PicHere she come in a cloud of rage.
...
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Categories:
ernie, art, aubade, word play, write,
Form:
Rhyme
Ever Jumped a Train - Part 9 - Robert and Ernie AdventuresWell, here we were, me, Ernie, and Snowy on this new train,
Both of them were still inside my jacket and sound asleep.
I knew now that mice snored, could feel a strange vibration,
It came and went...
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Categories:
ernie, adventure, childhood, growing up,
Form:
Narrative
Memoirs and Battle ScarsErnie was a hell raiser
A daredevil of sorts.
He was popular in school,
A natural at sports.
A kid in a candy store
Is the way Ernie felt.
All he had to do was smile,
And every girl would melt.
But he...
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Categories:
ernie, love, wargirl, time,
Form:
Rhyme
SensitivitySENSITIVITY
They’re all ignored by us, but they have feelings too :
A black gravestone in New York, down in the world,
Recalling its halcyon days as a part of
The impressive strata ...
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Categories:
ernie, funnynight, old, beach, feelings, night, old,
Form:
Free verse
Starbucks and CookieSTARBUCKS AND COOKIE
I sit in Barnes and Noble
Looking at the figure-display over the snack bar
Oh how out-of-place in time they look
Twain
Shaw
Hardy
Dickinson
Hemingway
Have read them all
Out of time
The artist has caught...
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Categories:
ernie, life, people
Form:
Narrative
Faces of LonelinessThe routine ride home from a neighboring town, seemed different today.
As I glanced at the dirty, sandy spot left on the usually spotless black leather seat beside me,
I felt almost ashamed of the...
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Categories:
ernie, introspection, loneliness,
Form:
Free verse
Avid Bookworms On the LooseThe American Library Association
implores cognoscenti tubby alert
impersonators, who
call themselves Ernie and Bert
took a page from Sesame Street Playbook
oft times...
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Categories:
ernie, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th grade, 7th
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Carp Fishing In MichiganClutching
The end of my Zebco rod and reel
As the cast of tackle is flung
Like a small knot of costume jewelry
Skimming atop the caramel-colored Grand River
Dragonfly rattling awry
The vibration tingling in the palm of my hand
As...
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Categories:
ernie, devotion, fish, fishing, friend, friendship, growing up,
Form:
Free verse
Quinze1. before 16 but after 14
2. 15 cents is not enough to get a gumball in a 25 cent gumball machine, nor is it the way
to pronounce correctly the name of famous rapper “50 cent”
3....
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Categories:
ernie, lifeold, old,
Form:
Free verse
Play BallI have attempted to capture my favorite major league baseball players in this little shape poem of home plate. Included are (in no particular order):
Say Hey Willie Mays ...
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Categories:
ernie, baseball,
Form:
Shape