Long Fleming Poems

“Physics asserts that there are four fundamental forces: electro-magnetism, gravity, and the strong and weak nuclear forces. These gentlemen have made a compelling argument for the existence of a fifth, desire.” Dr. Howard Pollison, National...

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I have known:
   of wise detectives catching crooks
   of "Thought Police" revising books
   a shipwrecked family named Robinson
   of lion, witch, and wardrobe magic
   Heathcliff's...

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Yes, my dear, you know,
You are my source of joy, rejuvenation, hope
I need your emotion spread onto my life,
I need your heart to sing among the darkness surrounding
Do not let our words run dry
Together, in...

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What is in the doctor’s bag, I want to see all that you have.  What is in the doctor’s bag? The dog is foaming like a frog, what have you don’t to it,? It...

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With hurry-home drops running down her cheeks,
She wrapped her small, soft arms around my neck.

“Daddy, don’t go!” she begged me.
“Daddy, please don’t go!” she cried.
All I could do was hold her,
And try to keep my...

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By Starlight 

How proud stands the willow
in silhouette of twilight skies.
The willow never weeps alone, 
tears of joy stream down cheeks
at the footbridge where she 
touched the water, where
Moonbeams dance
In the land beneath falling stars,...

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It was a day when the crowded avenue of wizened oak trees
  Loosened its first spluttering of yellowing leaves;
    And far out across the stubbled fields, devoid of the
  ...

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Biden has never felt weller
He’s seen off that crazy-haired fella
With boxes to dump
Of votes ticked for Trump
He simply can’t move in his cellar.

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Neil Armstrong...

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"I wandered lonely as a cloud."  William Wordsworth


I wandered lonely as a boat   
a shallow dingy left behind,  
alone in marsh of reeds remote  
my paint now faint so unrefined,...

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The greatest holiday gift I ever received  
Goes back so many, many years
Before my life became turmoiled
And before my tears for fears

I was a child like many out there
Torn, strewn and split of kin
Mother...

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The lead role was in many a wishing female heart.
Numerous young actresses auditioned for the part
Mr. Fleming said, “We’re looking at girls day and night,
We have seen scores of them, and not one of them...

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After the end of World War One 
The world said Scotland shipbuilding is done,
No longer would anyone pay their bills
For lowland coal and cotton mills.

Fifty thousand Scots per year
Boarded ships with immigrant fears,
The roaring twenties was...

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In California, in the year nineteen thirty-nine,
at Culver City, a movie studio was fine.
Metro Goldwyn Mayer was the largest company.
They produced the best motion pictures people could see.
Early in the year, they would make a...

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THE GUINEA BOOK-PIG

At four she was a guinea pig
For a rising college geek
‘Cause the kid was talkative
Perfect brain to take a peek

So the testing started there
Little questions never ended
Hungry little mind was bright
Former life was...

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NEVERTHELESS IT ALL ENDED IN 19 And 64
By Roy Merritt

(When reading it use a Cockney accent and the h is silent)

Oh alas poor Jimmy Bond 'e didn't go past sixty four
Cause you know 'is creator...

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When Time Stood Still
Written By: Philip Blake Fleming

The memories are as clear as a crystal of that sad day
When time stood still, an unjust price we had to pay
Thousands in peril, in fear of their...

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Am I from thine amity pleas'd,
So tell thou how in me eris'd
Of Joy the sorrow and the dawn,
Of Beauty mistery and frown:

'Tis sung in here the sighing sail,
The waves,the sea- forsake!
Will ever rest the Foaming...

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I stand alone on a busy street and think of you.
The world around me is moving, but I am standing still.
My heart has lost interest and its warmth fades into the distance;
But then I think...

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My precious hand sanitizer how I love you so much.
You make me feel O so powerful killing 99.99% 
Of those bedraggled germs
Your strong smell is more forceful  than a king
You come in many hues
And...

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spiritual and cultural numerical figure 
                             ...

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I am from the small white house
That has the small black pup as a defender
with picture on every wall
And the exploding smell of cinnamon
I am from the big family
Where education is everything
And Christmas morning are...

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I saw Moby Dick riding the Star-Spangled Banner 
One full moon before the freezing September 
Jamaica made first the say 
Towards breaking the bonds of foray 

While Warren was saying goodbye 
Einstein blew the first...

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theystilltreatusbad
we is still working the farms
my people still not read
my children still not write
my wife killed for be a negro
jim crow follow me everywhere
they hanging My people
 white people put fancy clothes on 
 watch...

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If Newton hadn't done his thing
How would we all stay down
Pythagoras said his pies are square
And that the world is round

Columbus sailed an open sea
And found a landmass there
If Einstein had no relatives
Would M C...

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She is her own moonbeam shining bright;
a beacon in the sky, penetrating light.
In evenings centrifugal dance,
heavenly body does entrance.
Giant star shine lamp
of mega-trillion amps.

In the hustle of celestial bustle;
she flexes her gaseous muscles.
whirling, spinning, never...

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