Long Having a field day Poems

At first, it wasn't my father's Oldsmobile.
Then, there came a longing for a new identity
with an invasion of one morphing after another.
Next thing I knew, there was 'no' Oldsmobile.
It seems that so many things started...

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*LETTER TO MY FATHER*

 
Dearest Father
With heart ripped into rags and shreds I write ? to you tonight
Trembling hands and ink made of tears and blood
Teary ?? eyes and bloody heels like a defeated soldier
Lost...

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Poet's Notes 1:
My poet's notes must precede the next Echo Poem as well because the poet 
has not given me permission to publish her poems on my site. I can, of course, 
reference her poems...

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Nutter Butter. Almond Joy, Mounds Bars, and Cherry Mash.
Those candy manufacturers know how to name to get their cash.
We contenders scoff; we snicker and sneer.
The toymaker crazy idea brigade has just arrived here.

Someone throws out,...

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Kabul Has Fallen

Kabul has fallen
The news screams 
Kabul has fallen
In less than two weeks

The intel officers
Got it so wrong
Everyone said
That Kabul would not fall
That the center would hold

Yet Kabul fell
Faster than anyone thought 
It would

The...

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The affair of wee mortals
With our planet has gone awry again;
Crabby like the acrid taste of long kept palm wine.
We mask our depredation with mendacious diplomacy.
Hence this social distance between us and Earth.

Suddenly the world...

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Oh, No, Earth Is Doomed

By Elton Camp

The ignorant alarmists are having a field day
A 150 foot-wide asteroid will hit us they say
Next February, this big rock will come near
But scientist assure us there’s naught to...

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Well millions of years ago she came 
To be the first woman born of dirt and 
Earth and no her name was not Eve... 
She was willful, vain and demanded 
Equality but Adam refused her...

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The days are lengthening, yet no snow
birds starting to nest, too soon I fear
winter still has yet to show her powers
buds forming on fruit trees need no frost
its icy fingers would kill them completely

All is...

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Not realizing what he had invented,
because he was "put away,"
Evil's friend Houdini,
was having a field day,
the catapult machine
was not only used as a weapon of war,
but also for people
who wanted to travel far,
especially wanting to...

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By Elton Camp

Conspiracy theorists are having a field day
“NASA is hiding the truth,” they loudly say

They see a rock shaped like a bone
“Life was here, but now it’s gone!”

When an odd-shaped rock they see
“It looks...

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Having a field day:
        My joy immense
        At your expense

Immune to crocodile tears:
        The...

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Oh give me a home where there are no drones,
where the Democrats and Republicans play,
where seldom is heard a debate that isn't too absurd,
while they try to keep Wikileaks and e-mails at bay,

Home, home on...

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Forrest forever worked full-time in the forest,
forgetting his fast food which was not so fabulous,
foraging for forest food not his forte,
finally fishing till the fish fought and got away,
Forrest was not exactly having a field...

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