Long Flagpole Poems

We are human being with a soul
We were taken from the North and South Pole
And left in a basket at the flagpole
If all the relics in history were unfold
You would discover that the real threshold
Is...

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Look at the president
dressed in patriotic drag
See how he’s bubble wrapped
in his American kilt flag
Notice how he sashays about
in his patriotic beauty pageant dress
Asking you to give your country more,
when he always found a way...

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Gold is the color in the veins of that ore
and red is the color in the veins of war.
Bankers have bested alchemists of old
and found a way to turn blood into gold.

With a false flag...

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An old Ethiopian veteran of the love wars 
once told a newlywed Kenyan kid:
If you want the infant marriage to survive,
make it to the golden years Mt. Kilimanjaro side
You gotta keep the giraffe standing up,
when...

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Complete Dependence

“God, the Master, The Holy of Israel, has this solemn counsel: "Your salvation requires you to turn back to me and stop your silly efforts to save yourselves. Your strength will come from settling...

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 BUTT ME--

 Oh Jazz Age of prosperity and dissipation
Jazz bands, bootleggers, raccoon coats
Bathtub gin, flappers, flagpole sitters recitations
 Bootleggers, and marathon dancers boast

 Butt me 

Cigarettes, Cigars, Pipes, Smoke, Butt, Snuff, 
Bone, Coffin nail,...

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Weeds and grass grow in the cracks
of sun-faded, crumbling pavement,
a parking lot that once was full
of stressed parents and cowboys nascent.
A grand sign over the entry
now is rotted two-thirds away,
this old piece of my childhood
truly...

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The Yellow Dog


A skinny yellow dog walked 'round
Needin' to find some shade
The dusty little one street town
Was hot as God has made

He eyed the flagpole in the square
No shadow could he see
He raised his leg...

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Bow down 
when you hear the music

Stand up
when you hear the sound

Limber low
when you see the golden image
Babel Tower rise pyramid erect 
like a flagpole

Toes arched high,
elbows bent with hand over heart
Eyes swaying side to...

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At the end of the day, 
it's just cloth and dye.
At the end of the day,
it's personal preference.
Fifty stars representing states,
each one could highlight 
historical atrocities. 
Each one could highlight 
technological ingenuity 
The red and white
could easily resemble 
the fight we...

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The Avon Lady sold her some lipstick in the colour of plum
It was on special offer and she couldn't resist buying some
Then she bought a purple dress to match her purple lips 
The purple pirate...

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“Do not judge unless you would be judged,”
We are warned but we rarely comply,
And “treat others in ways that feel fair,”
Still we lack what God’s angels supply,
Believe justice can always be fudged
And think our lives...

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Turn east your eyes, oér the brimming blue of mountains
And see the morning sky serving feast of fervent gold
And through the hills climbing a heart like festive fountains
A man with tattered trousers, shirt stained and...

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Captain America
is looking flagpole beautiful
in his wavy red, white and blue 
body-fitting uniform
But, Manifest Destiny hero worship
don’t even come close
to his citizens A-love for the gun ...
Trigger huggable sidearms
Hot steel aficionados
got a love that’s real
Giving...

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It's date night once again,
almost near the witching hour
You dread the dimming of the light,
as the clock chimes the midnight strike
Half-hearted display of staged re-enactments
of bygone semi-passionate days
Youthful days in the rearview,
both bodies not looking...

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Came from Baltimore by Pigtown
Where they like to lay the law down.
He rebelled against the ground rule.
Had to grow up in reform school.
Got acquainted with a curveball
Dealing pepper by the church hall;
Broke some windows, but...

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Riotous revellers' laughter drifts up from their apricot lit late night haunts, four cafes are notoriously avoided venues for overindulgent consumption of alcohol. 

 Across the street, from my thirtieth floor apartment window, remote portrait...

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It’s late. I’m becoming paranoid. I can hear the thumping of bass from passing cars. Doors slamming. Screaming. My window shudders with me. To look into my peripheral- my irises must cross oceans. Waves crash....

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The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. Albert Einstein


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George Schultz

1898-1917

I was reposing voiceless on my deathbed,

As with the silent fog on a winter’s morning,

On the way out of here from kidney failure,

And as I closed my windows there,

On north Painter Street,

I tried to...

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They kick God out of classrooms
And evil walks right in
Innocents are led to slaughter
Before their lives can even begin
Our jaws drop from the shock
We are appalled by such a crime,
But we voted for laws to...

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My grandma was a steeple jack, 
Of heights she had no fear.
The crowds would gather round to watch.
They came from far and near, 
 
To see her swing and pirouette, 
Doff her hat and wave.
And...

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Written: August 3rd, 2023
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Through the shallow depths of my soul,
I sail on a wild surface with no control.
Passengers of dreams, we set sail,
With the wind blowing through, we prevail.

In this journey, we navigate,
A lushness of...

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The first thing i see,
over the tops of the lonely piano,
are the flapping blood-red stripes of the proud, flagpole.
The trees are rejoicing,
the sun has chased their shadows from the lawn,
their arms are open; welcoming the...

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An eagle circles low to scout the land
As regal as a symbol should command
A hoisted flag whips in the brushing of the wind
These are symbols which have dignity to span
Whose rapturous silent song of antheming
Reminds...

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