Long Fundraising Poems

My fundraising problem with positive psychology,
said the good health doctor,
it is too social science squishy,
not leftbrain dominant enough,

Suspiciously ecofeminist
for natural science pathologists
Straight-White privileged proctologists
urologists
bicamerally challenged cardiologists.

I must concede
not ecopolitically erect enough
correct indeed
said the nervous 
trauma...

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It was the summer of 2014, I was just about to turn 13, spending June of summer vacation with my Grandmère, in Paris. Tonight, we’re at a fundraising benefit for African relief (it’s always *something*)....

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I was a minister of the gospel, very happily living my life for the Lord,
Preaching the Word every Sunday, in the spirit of affinity and accord.

I always knew that I would preach, for I had...

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Eleven years later and the young boy from the corner,
kept up with his scouting and a leader he’d become,
Two people were so proud of every one of his achievements,
The leader who first met him, And...

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You will have probably heard this story, it's often been told
About Captain Tom who's ninety nine years old
He's a Second World War veteran who's served his country
And was a Captain in the tank regiment in...

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AR 15 was found in one of the airplane's black boxes

News about AR-15 And Southport, NC

bing.com/news

NC fire department decides to remove AR-15 and other firearms from raffle

WNCN · 2 hours ago

(AP Photo/Charles Krupa) SOUTHPORT, N.C....

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would you like to hear the good news or the bad news first?

the bad news is
there are billions of people on the planet
who donate at least 1 dollar to their favorite charity
on more than one...

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Captain Tom
By Jan Beaumont ©

He was somebody we'd never heard of
Just a man quietly living his life
But a man who'd seen things that he shouldn't 
Like battle and horror and strife.

He was loved and surrounded...

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I want to follow in your footsteps
and do the things that you used to do
I want to follow in your footsteps
and be guided  always by you
I don't want to have role models
I don't look...

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plus Doctor Kaunda also says family names
in tandem should not determine,
who to associate with, any more than nap
pulled lying flat hair, but rather character of hearts,
viz each one of every Zambian availing their lap
necessarily if...

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Only way I could figure out how to print out my Vestry
email letter. Jim Horn

Dear Friends,

Just a reminder of our upcoming meeting this coming Tuesday (Jan. 12th), 5:30 pm in Bliss Hall.

An agenda is shown...

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If I could nominate a charity St Bridget’s would be my choice
They care for the sick and the dying, their service is like a Rolls Royce
Nothing is too much trouble for the patients in their...

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She grew up in a time when sitting
on grandma's lap was security.
Walking in a gentle night rain was purifying.

Sitting in the desk behind Johnny Garber
was being held in captivity.
Her first dress-up dance was being "Cinderella."

The...

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New Year is a time to be happy. It is a time to complete that which were promised in the past. Make no new one until you have completed the one you have pledged to...

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A devil in three-piece polyester
Sweaty jowls hanging over starched collar
Worker’s bane, savings account molester
Stalking your front door, try not to holler

Huntin’ for your cash; not all he will do
Piles of workers’ scalps under his front...

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Child killers
Sexual abuses

A wife beaten to a pulp
Becuase her husband was drunk

Someone's Grandmother
Robbed to provide a junkies fix

A war vetran 
Conned out of his life savings
So he can't even pay for his own funeral costs

A...

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