Long Hitch up Poems

Ol’ Kiley, he’d gone out a ridin’,
Just to clear his weary head—
‘Bout the workin’ of this busy world
And how it done changed the spread.

Seems things they were just changin’ too fast,
And new owners had fired...

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In my life I have seen infinitesimal good I ponder all the time why is life so unkind. I live my 
life the best way that I could, but someone always despised where I stood....

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One Valentines day Cupid went on strike because well ... he didn't like 
the dating games on T V showing fake people trying to hitch up and all 
They were gold diggers he said, first...

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Hitch up them mules maw looks like we be headin fer town.
   Stock up on them vittles, shoot might even buy you that new flanny night gown.
Shucks paw we ain’t got money fer...

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I've been on this journey for over a year , it's hard to imagine.  For a whole year I have held 
the reigns up here on the wagon. It's a long trip down a...

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My Daddy played a trick on me
When I was just a tike
Asleep; I was in dreamland town
A 'riding on my bike

And suddenly! I hear a noise
A clanging sound it seems
It was my Dad with pots...

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So you woke up face down on 
the street
And you don't know the time 
or day of the week
And want me to serve you a 
hair of the dog
To steady your nerves and 
clear out...

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Mama tells me I must shield my skin from the scorching sun
This doesn’t stop me and my friend Amy from having some fun
Amy went out exploring and picked wild roses from the bowers
I can still...

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come kiss the frost 
from off  late apple themes 
the carnival is coming into town
where everything is nothing that it seems
hitch up the pony,
take the surrey down.

 Let's take the long way 'cross the...

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GOOSEBERRIES AND SHARP CREASES

The plumpest, juiciest, hairiest gooseberries
My grandfather grew in a circular bed,
Dead centre of the immaculate lawn.
And blackcurrants under netting,
And a Victoria plum tree in the far corner.
He taught me to hitch up...

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Borrowed time, borrowed time
We’re living on borrowed time
Selling our lives for a dream home
Ripping up the carpets
To lay our lives down
New china
A drape to please the eye
This borrowed time will drag you down

If everything was...

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The applauses shower, they hold all the power
I break out a bow for my finest hour
Bravo, Encore, I exit stage door
My feet, they don't seem to touch the floor
One last glance, a last performance
How many...

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I who have nothing
I who am naught
wrapped in the chaos
of what Ihave wrought
weeping and waiting 
and still I aspire
to harness your power
to rein in your fire
  to hitch up your wagon
to my broken dreams
oh...

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