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Long Goodman Poems

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Premium Member Acknowledgements
1.    John Desmond Patrick Keegan
2.    Alfred, Lord Tennyson 
3.    Sally Aline Mae Beller
4.    Charles Edward A. Berry
5.    Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce...

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Categories: goodman, appreciation, dedication, inspiration,
Form: List



Premium Member Ain'T Throwin Myself Off No Bridges
Aint Throwin my'self off no bridges
God made the Ocean for the fish

And at the risk of soundin' religious
Suicide wont be gettin' his wish

Sister Mercer, sister Bailey,
Sing me through this

 'Nough Blues in my suitcase
To make...

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Categories: goodman, anxiety, depression, endurance, extended metaphor, hope, strength,
Form: Rhyme
Zaphnathpaaneah (Part I)
(Potiphar's Wife's Flattery)

Come lie with me,
For the goodman of the house is not at home;
He is gone on a long journey:
He hath taken a bag of money with him,
And will not come home until the...

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Categories: goodman, business, devotion, faith, hope, loss, love, on
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Miss Christy Sambristy, a Little Tale
Miss Christy Sambristy had way too much hair!
When you visited, hair was on every couch, and chair.
It stretched all the way outside her blue and red door!
If she tried cutting it, the hair just grew
...

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© Ann Peck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: goodman, 1st grade, child, happy,
Form: Rhyme
My King'
Elvis was the "King of Rock and Roll."
And prior to him, there was Nat "King" Cole.
Roy Rogers was known as "King of the Cowboys;"
And NASCAR's "King," Richard Petty, could sure make some noise.

King Kong climbed...

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Categories: goodman, faith
Form: Rhyme



Why--- Until
As I see again.. 
today... this man
Follows me.. everywhere I go
For tis man... even comes
To my school.. (College)
Even when tis be.. on my job
he shows... he is there... 

As my employer 
Called me today
Asks me.....

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© Star Light  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: goodman, mysterycare, me, care, me,
Form: I do not know?
The Black Experience
Black History Month began as "Negro History Week"
Our holiday was adopted at a time when the country was bleak
Created in 1926 by noted African American Historian, Carter G. Woodson
Today, we celebrate the "Congressional Gold Medal"...

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© Floyd Neal  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: goodman, appreciation, black african american, blessing,
Form: Free verse
My Style
my style
the sky is blue 
so is time to
mingle
in a lonely 
atmosphere 
were love is the 
reason of life 
so my blue pen 
never seize to 
pure it reality 
from the deep 
heart of willingness

my...

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Categories: goodman, africa, confidence, dedication, deep, devotion, motivation, passion,
Form: Epic
Merchant
Hold on to yourselves 
It’s going to be a long one

I forgive you but I do not
Remember me 
Or have you forgotten
I am the soul of Martha Carrier 
I am the cold amongst un-forgiven barriers
If...

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Categories: goodman, art, life, music, people, seasons, song-time, me,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member My Time Machine
My chair, 
at times over 
the past twelve weeks
my prison cell. 
Seven weeks more 
before my sentence
is completed. 
But today,
my chair is going to be
my time machine.

Not flashy and gaudy,
with a Christmas display
of flashing, colorful...

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Categories: goodman, appreciation, blessing, thanksgiving,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member He's a Goodman-
Softness he was a man but yet he had a heart
This muscle bounds upstart
He wasn't frail he was a muscular bound man
Did I say he had a soft heart a meandering spirit a soul full...

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Categories: goodman, beautiful, character, meaningful,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Bought With Gold,Sold On Green ,Wrote In Blood
where go those men with dignified eye's
who stand against the wall facing a volley of fire
ready to drop dead,blind folded and bound
all knowing and waiting for destiny's sound
where goe's the justice promised us all
for there...

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Categories: goodman, life, social, song-men, men,
Form: Free verse
Folksingers
There once were some Weavers
Who taught many of us to sing.
But it wasn't until much later in life
That their music would be my thing.

 I never followed Pete Seeger
 As his words with me didn't...

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© Dan Cwiak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: goodman, memory, music, remember,
Form: Rhyme
Fire Dancing
In Bulgaria, the Nestinari touched me when I was a child
high above the arm to hold, something new and something old.
She said, "Your feet were meant to walk the fire."
A plain proposition I did not...

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Categories: goodman, dance, fire,
Form: Rhyme
Jazz Kit Mix
Blow your gills out
with Miles Davis, mellow n kind of blue
relax in black 'n white ways 'n days

all; all the jazz kit

Go on a blues Holiday Billie
away with the Jones’s Nora
get some Rays with Charles

Lenard...

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Categories: goodman, humorous, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oh Those Boswell Sisters
Some called the radio station demanding they throw them out of the studio.
Others called to brag about their talents, their arrangements, their sass.
Boswell sisters had been singing together since their Vaudeville days as teens.
Connee played...

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Categories: goodman, music,
Form: Free verse
Move On
You've moved on...... so why can't I?
Why do i have 2 be left behind 
where no one can see me?
In the darkness...where you left me
I try to skip to the next point but I cant
my...

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Categories: goodman, loveday, me,
Form: Free verse
To Keep the Wolves Away
My brave son of seven is leaving!
to spar with military jaws.
And I repeat, Lycurgis taught me these three laws:
to keep the wolves away: if I say three words today,
may they be concise and may they...

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Categories: goodman, change, child, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Blooms In
I met someone once, who showed me why the flowers bloom;
And why it is so easy for buds to break through the early spring snow.

I was afraid, and said nothing.  Yet I am there,...

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Categories: goodman, angel,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member The Sorry Present
I want to say I’m sorry - your present looks like that.
It wasn’t kicked by UPS or pummeled with a bat

The master wrappers I prefer, simply aren’t around
A slow economy got them or the covid...

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Categories: goodman, christmas, giving, humor, teen,
Form: Rhyme
Benny Goodman, Band Leader
Benny Goodman, Band Leader


A letter was left in mailbox I wanted to see

Which had been only meant for me;

When I opened it and did read;

Was about a band someone did lead.


Last name was Goodman and...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: goodman, music,
Form: Couplet
Tonite
(this brownarmed girl will sleep
with goodman)

testing the white waters at lunch
she in a blushless
cheesecloth frock
chaperoned by one vased fuchsia forget
me not

coyly sipping cantharis tea
verbalizing
circling a triangle
words slipping from breath moistened lips
like fire thirsty moths quenched...

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© Dort James  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: goodman, passion,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things