Long Granddaddy Poems

It is a cold road to my mother’s house.
I have driven it hundreds of times and each time it seems to get colder.
I have cranked up the heat, yet the cold is like a knife...

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 This should be read as though sung as a Country Western song

I searched the junk food aisle 

And the basin of a bowl (looked real, real hard there)

I learned that the whiskey bottle beer...

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I felt the tingling sensation of the ice crumbling my feet. The way the snow capped pines glimmer in beauty calm me with ease, yet still…I am lost in the wilderness. Too far from home,...

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Written tonuhalan10/4/06 mon
Sad and blue

there are some times when your feeling sad and blue
there are some times when you don’t know what to dooo
don’t even know 
don’t even know
don’t even know

there are someways 
when your...

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Good morning Steph, today's the twentieth.
It's Syd's birthday and I've been thinking of you.
I bought her a cake yesterday, chocolate and vanilla swirled.
I thought of calling your mom,
but she always disappears this time of year.
She...

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Who is Bigfoot’s Great-grand Daddy?

Whether living in a city or on the mountain side,
People from the world around astound us with their views.
He’s nine-feet tall, a hairy thing, uprightly he flees astride.
Only tracks are left...

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I often think okay I am not that old. I am a pretty cool grandma.. I grew up where mom was the lover, protector and most of all the boss.. I never would have thought...

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Has any one every asked you “ARE YOU CRAZY”
And afterwards you think to yourself ‘AM I’

What constitutes crazy 
Is trying to get to kids to play quiet for 1 hour
Is answering phone, text message, and...

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Has any one every asked you “ARE YOU CRAZY”
And afterwards you think to yourself ‘AM I’

What constitutes crazy 
Is trying to get to kids to play quiet for 1 hour
Is answering phone, text message, and...

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White picket fence in the rear view
Coordinates in the GPS
He honks as he leaves the driveway
For a three day trip to the west

They call it the white line fever
And it's addictive as crack cocaine
The need...

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What an honorable man.
Dependable.
Dedicated.
Up Right in his stand.
A beautiful man who is the gate keeper for us all.

He has provided the love.
Support.
Also wisdom to his young prince.
His young princess's applied individually.
His Role as King in...

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the stink of the swamp slaps you in the face in the same exact spot
never disappointing, memorizing the land mark where you began to hold your breath
after years you become accustomed, how will you know...

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I shall finish this letter to granddaddy tonight, 
I just cannot find the words that are right.
I wish to thank him for fighting in the war, 
on the front line he stood, straight in sight....

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RIVER FISHING


After school my friend and I would walk through town to the river
Soon to bait our trout lines with cotton cake, crawdads and liver.
Sometimes we used baby bullheads, perch or great big frogs
Tossing out...

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I'm finally livin my dream
Got 3 on my team
Separated still feel his d#@ in between
 my legs, my mouth, his tongue your right he won
Within a year I'll be havin his son.
So save your game,...

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Is the word “fart” a naughty word

Hope not... I find it cute and giggly

But don't go by me, my mind is a little warped

Words are just words with letters strung together

Strange how any mention of...

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I guess I’m cowboy with cowboying ways. 
            born a century too late so it seems.
	   This city style living is just...

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I am the dependable North Star,
      the diamond in the twilight sky, guiding you 
             as you journey...

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He was a straight-laced lawman,
who went strictly by the book
Before he took any criminal gunsmoke down,
he would give them 
his best Marshall Dillon righteous look
Said he would always give them a fair trial
Just one of...

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I never knew my dad,  he died when I was two.
   My granddaddy was the one that would walk with me to school.
He would tell me things and make me laugh.
 ...

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Poor Roofuss
By Cody Brandon Turner

I once knew a pig
A good pig friend of mine
A pig by the name of Roofuss
A pig that was fat but was kind
A pig who was my best friend
A Pig in...

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My Granddaddy said
A whole lot to me
To prepare for the things
A young mind couldn't see

He peaked around corners
And underneath beds
Here are some things about life
My Granddaddy said

Life if you ain't careful 
Can grab you by...

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Memories are just that.
O how I wish Grandmama were making her fruitcake.
Standing alongside the entire time
With the understanding the mixing bowl was mine for the taking.

All year she would save all her dimes. 
So many...

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I am the granddaddy of this tree line
Used to be the strongest, mightiest evergreen here
The others sprung up renegade, one by one
Now I am but a stump of my former glory.
I guess this happens in...

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Unkept thoughts would not likely be
told to the forest but only to one tree
Standing taller that all the rest
Is the one tree I like the best. 

That tree was the oldest of the ones around
Their...

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