Long Garth Poems

A Letter To My Son  Shawn (1967-1999)

 You left so suddenly shocking all of us who loved you  
 We could not understand why God called you Home 
 You were so young...

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2 million suicidal babies
the munchonsen of psychiatry
just pushed me over the edge
what do we say when we cross the border?
we're going to disneyland
what are we going to do when we get there
inform as many innocents...

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My soul understood Lynyrd Skynyrd
Like Ronnie I had monkeys to
Just simple boys chasing life’s joys
With our needles playing our blues

My soul understood Pink Floyd
For I have lived inside the wall
Comfortably numb and ignorantly dumb
Living my...

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I have only recently met you, even though I have known you forever
for so long we have been strangers,
but now we are almost birds of a feather. 
I've known your smile and I love your...

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I was 6 or 7 when I sang in church
about the joy, joy, joy, joy, in my heart, yeah,
down in my heart to stay. 
Fourteen years later everything is trans
and I'm wondering if anything is...

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They’ve all gone those singer songwriters of yesterday 
or are in the process of leaving 
But their songs remain in our hearts and psyches
their words forever embedded in our souls

They came like a breath of...

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For 47 years and 2 weeks
He was there by my side
Then the sad day came
When he up and died.

On my way home he was there
And as I turned onto the road to home
Garth Brooks began...

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My world did crash
My heart went numb
That day in July
When God called you home.

We waited each day
For the doctors to smile
And tell us your ills
Were o'er for a while.

I'd laugh and I'd joke
While you'd try...

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Tender is the night the moon does gently sway,
reflections from your eyes, gives one a taste of
your ways.
Dancing leaves, the headlights ensnare
a rufous finale, as yet another generation gives
way to the new.
Approaching fog gives one...

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Its Friday night and we just got a tank of gas and some cold beer
As we all pile up Kenny Chesney’s cranked up for the whole for the whole world to hear.
We cruise through town...

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Got up this morning and took one look
At today’s page in my appointment book
Decided that with the rain pouring down
There was no way I could make it to town
So I called in sick to my...

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The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Twenty

Trillion pin-pricks of the sticky mists surround the mosque’s turret
Shrouding the pallid angular slabs of the Faithfuls outlet:
Even the muzzled pit-bulls marshaled out in the cold winced.
At the...

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Cowboys wear their hearts on their sleeve
They sing in honky tonks and dive bars,
Drink their memories down, they spend their weekends in a bar where they can be themselves, wating to have their spirits glisten....

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thank you Lord for the gifts in my life.
the farah fawcett, the michael jackson my willy wonka,the muhamad ali, the al green.
the prince, the babyface, the elvis presely, the johnny taylor and b.b. king.
the john...

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Garth

Many years ago, a quiet, respectful, man came into our lives, from Yukon, Oklahoma, hoping to make it in the music business, he brought with him, a passion to sing from the heart, a dream...

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A path to death –Life 
A path to life –Death 
A journey of pathways
Of horror of darkness
Through many valley of sorrows
Afterwards, hill of triumph follows	
Before hails sadness!
And later, happiness
Sailing through to Success

Deep under the carpet...

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“Daisy Hill”
a garden to please
distant,  yet ever near
         in splendid hue.
Yet here now
the chill of winter’s
wrath,  which initiates
       ...

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Garth was a cat with an attitude, and he was grayscale true.
He had a pet mouse. I did not  dare chase him. Did you?
Other cats had tried to entice Garth to loan out his...

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All within the taiga glade,
Their raiments gilt in comely shades,
The burgess shrives vagrant souls.
A garth of god for men alow.

Whereinto the roots may grow,
We wayfarers may never know,
For we waltz twixt sky and earth-
Domain of...

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Looking back on the memory of
The dance we shared beneath the stars alone
How could I have ever known
The way it all would end
The way it all would go

Please forgive me – I know not what...

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Till this day, I think of you.
Endearing thoughts my heart once knew.

 Caught by surprise, you said, " Good Bye."
Leaving me here, to wonder why.

 The heartfelt letters, I sent each night.
Were desperate words, to...

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I heard the wallpaper start peeling off the wall in the kitchen.
Garth my pet giraffe must be still be ferociously itch’n.
Penguin waddles up to give me his slanted report.
I ask about the chipmunks – Nancy,...

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