Long Hayward Poems

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AGENT BROWN: I AWAKEN EVERY NIGHT IN TOTAL FEAR FOR MY SAFETY AFTER WEARING WIRES PREGNANT BUYING WEAPONS AND DRUGS FEARING FOR MINE AND MY CHILDREN...

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On Fam'ly Traditions - 3rd third -


With 2 dinky bedrooms...and only 3 beds...the one time I'd been here I'd slept on a cot!  And tossin' a coin for the one with 2 beds...the-odd-man the...

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I was born fifty years ago on April 10th 1964
Looking back through the years I began to explore

My mama said when it was time for me to be born
I decided to come early and fast...

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driving our kids west . . .
our past life vanishing in
the rear view mirror

I don’t recall many details about our move to California. My husband’s job had transferred him two states over to California where...

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April 07, 2024
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Through the serene meadow, we tread,
With mindful motions and hearts full of dread,
It's daybreak; everything...

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This is a poem about surnames,
Surnames we could hear any day.
How their name was derived
From how they survived,
Their occupation will give them away.

ARCHER is the first one,
Shooting his arrows straight and true.
BAKER is the next...

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T his the mid-seventies, California,
O akland Airport Hilton Inn, town aura,
M idst Oakland Stadium Complex, airport.

H ospitality Senior Special sort.
A t nineteen, I worked as a front desk staff, 
N ear my location was the...

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Tainted Oilman Hayward, geologist-in-chief
Oddly opined amidst deep misery and grief 

He said the oil spill would have a modest impact
Did not want the “small people” to over-react

Yachtsman saw a “tiny” leak in the “big ocean”
Wanted...

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Wild horses still run
  racing off to the beat
of some distant drum
  the wind catching their wheat
in the swaying winter manes
 with their figures a shadow in open plains.

Hoof beats pound the earth
...

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Remember
how many dawns
did we have?
how many mornings
did they belong to us?
how many afternoons
we carried to the meeting
of the nights...!?
remember
how many nights
did we do days?
were moments
only our... our
refuges outside this world...
Moments that belonged to us...
Moments when...

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*Image of 12 Fun Facts Tom Hanks by Hotbook.

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks

Mr. Thomas Jeffrey Hanks,
Passionately pursued his dreams by pulling pranks,
By smooth-talking fellow workers, this prankster cannot be found,
As Hollywood checked in, opened doors of opportunity...

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When the byline was my line, I soared past the skyline
    
    When my line was the bye-line, I boarded the Sioux Line ... 




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