Long First cousin Poems

"The White Lady of Skipsea"


Last night I dreamt 
I dreamed of you
a kind of dream 
within a dream

Diaphanous, 
my soul escaped, 
this firmament,
my immaculate heart
held hands, my fingers 
did entwine with 
handsome Morpheus

Crystal radiate
twin gossamer...

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anticipatory anxiety fosters catastrophization...,

especially bombardment of online scare tactics
courtesy fiendish insidious loathsome sinister oafs
rubbing their hands at aggrieved party;
punch drunk cyber thieves ecstatic
acquiring by hook and/or crook
sought after precious, priceless, and proverbial data
after loosed ransomware...

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The curtain rises on Bumblebee Babineaux walking self-confidently along Chartres Street.

Bumblebee [singing]: Ain’t nothin’ gonna break my stride, nobody’s gonna slow me down. Oh, no, I got to keep on movin’… 

Tom Sickley, a disingenuous...

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The Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost has commonly been referred as an object or a thing! Instead He is the third person of the Holy Trinity! He becomes your help mate, counselor and guidance counselor!...

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Sitting on this gray wooden bench beside my late mother
Her light yellow blouse shiffling in the Atlantic air
She is exicited, anxious, happy and swells with a sense of achievement
For she had done it. She had...

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amuck - adverb.flailing in all directions, about, around - His ideas ran amuck.

brang – verb, past tense.bring – You ring, you rang, I bring, I brang.

chipps - noun, plural.an asset for selling, a favor owing,...

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I am a monkey dark and clean
I am a monkey and I love soybean
I am a monkey and I love to eat greens 
I am a monkey and I am on a global spree
I am...

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I thought I had gotten away from this part of my childhood,
but I turned at lettuce and ran into my cousin Linden
in the grocery store last Thursday.
He was delighted and dragged me back to their...

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The escape commenced.
The endless drive from middleclass suburbia
ala Levittown; across hill and dale,
packed in a 1947 black beauty
of a Lincoln Continental; to the land of Peyton Place 
and Steven King; Maine.

Lemon up and tangerine down,...

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1673 Newport Murder Trial

One of my great grandfathers in my family tree
Was accused of murder in 1673.

His name was Thomas Cornell 
And they said he killed his mother Rebecca and sent her to hell.

She was...

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"There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge a precious jewel." PROVERBS 20:15

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Gold is heavy, gold is lustrous, gold excites lusts
She is not the marrying type, Miss Gold, that is
First...

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IF ever I had a country : XXVII -  XXVIII

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my uncle was married
before he met her
sure it was to his first cousin

My brother was trying to help her
she cried for days about being raped

My grandmother gave her a job
and a place to stay

Friends with...

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He looks
At the collage
With glassy eyes
The pieces of the puzzle of him
The memories that have been stolen
Swept away 
Vanquished

An occasional glimmer
A spark of recognition
His dear mother
She had taught him three languages
Now he barely remembers one
The...

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The King was very angry;
his first cousin had refused to bow
before him. The cousin wanted his throne.

So much his stomach turned and boiled with rage,
that he plotted to kill him. He then summoned Chi,
his trusted...

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A gray and black life sketch – small man in overalls—
Somber as his guitar, lifted high all those times—
Playing Ozark tunes with those wild figure-eight squalls—
Glasses glint raw reason as that happiness chimes.

Oh, play to...

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Force Within

Date: Tue, Dec 1 2015 at 7:10 PM

I lost my lil Brother to the *Violence"
An my First Cousin to the streets *Environment"
Got a Cousin doing Three Counts of "Life"
So I'm using Three Times the...

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She is our first cousin’s daughter’s daughter which genealogically proves
that she is our first cousin…wait…first cousin twice removed.

And she is sick…we don’t know with what…we just became aware
when her mother, our first cousin once removed,...

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Failure is with us every day
			telling us to go for it on fourth and one;			
			more and more that’s done;
			we listen to failure smiling cynically
			as he whispers temptations in our ears.
			You’d recognize the guy,
			You’ve seen him...

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You’re the dumb one, aren’t you? She asked me so beautiful, sweet.
Cee’Su was a looker, married to my first cousin Pete.

I did not reply, after all, what could I say?
Was she daft in the head?...

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Some folks have a problem with authority,
legitimate and otherwise, and I have spent
a lifetime festering in that group.

An event in youth convinced me that 
big people are no different than little people
despite their titles and...

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Roberta lived on this earth for so many years!
Was a great mother, wife, and grandmother, too.
A long and fulfilling life with joy, completion and no fears.


I was a bridesmaid, when she married my first cousin.
A...

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There was this guy called Jimmy Chong
Lived on the outskirts of Hong kong
Married his first cousin Susy Dong
Her dad said  "Jimmy this is wrong."

On their honey moon they went to China
Susy's dad was determined...

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I have always had a little black dress;
more than one, but rarely more than one at a time.
My favorite one was borrowed by a cousin.
Someone I did not know well.
I had offered her other dresses,
but...

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Written on June 12, 1995
Updated on April 19, 2012

Gail's Note: Written in the voice of a shopaholic 
(the hoarder's first cousin)  
Not really me, although I do have some items 
that could probably fit...

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