Long Hockey game Poems

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LOME – In an effort to topple a government set up to end a 24 year dictatorship rebellious army troops seized the state broadcasting station yesterday, then left the building but returned...

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"Another Better World"


These little sins 
you smoothly skip across the waters of fairweather lives 
like darkness hidden underneath deadly white lies,
like throwing pebbles casually across The Lake of Tears
that reflect rippling rings rapidly racing outwards...

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Down to the two final teams 
it's Canada against the United States, 
three periods of hockey to watch 
which team will meet their fate? 

The game started at one pm my time 
I could not...

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I sat down to watch the radio

There was nothing on TV

I have two hundred channels

But there was sweet F.A for me

I could have watched one channel

And learned to fricasse

A chicken raised on wild grains

By a...

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"Final Edition"     Posted 12 Sep 2021

With deep gratitude to all of who visited and commented over these 12 months of Monoku Mondays, I am hereby retiring this series. Keep laughing and...

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Be Canadian, stand together. We'll get through this, if we try.
	Stay at home, and help your neighbour, there'll be victory, by and by.

Every day we say good bye to so many as they die
All alone...

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Are you persuaded enough
that there's nobody
more special than your best friend?
Josh was that guy being liked
for his trustworthy character,
and although he had a disability,
he kept giving his best by far...
making everybody proud of him,
including his...

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I told Jane since she's no longer with us and I don't think Derek will happen this way again, especially since he'll be moving to L.A. soon. 

I told him that day of the copier,...

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Now I ask you this
A more common name you will not find
Cities have thousands of them
Small towns have at least one
Why pretty much everywhere you go
You will find a Mr. Smith
 
Why once in china
In...

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I saw a hockey game last night
It was there that I saw the fight
The one that some saw as a brawl
While others stated, “It’s part of the game after all.”

I saw a hockey game last...

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I met with Mr. Eastwood for the first time with both of us, and I know he's savvy about people's character.

I would rate Clint as, par for the course as Pebble Beach is noted for,...

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A fistful of a metronome is an organic matter in a metro dome. Fish not a pirate ship and swim swim swim. Great isn't it. Marvel at the many passing floating cakes that arrive. And...

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I’ve waited my whole life.

To see those magical dreams come true.

Of hiking in the mountains,

Seeing man’s first step on the moon.


Independence, I learned on my own.

Self worth was so important to me.

Learning who I was,...

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I have a pet rock that i carry everywhere
I love him take care of him treat him with care
I gave him some clothes that fit just right
I gave him a bed to stretch out at...

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Use caution when walking behind elephants son
You don't want to step into a big pile of dung
Take care in passing the pepper to dragons my girl
Just one sneeze and fire will blow you into a...

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Maple trees are easiest to climb
Oak trees will offer the grandest view
Willows are better to hide behind
if there is someone looking for you

Love thy neighbor will always be right
but lust is definitely a sin
In a...

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I was walking with a frend at nite . Beneath the trees , wair thair was no lite .
On soft wet ground , that sank , beneath our feet , we sunk in quicksand ,
That...

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I'm in the locker room,
our team is ready to zoom

Equipment is on,
for there is a game to be won

The music is playing,
nervous, my body is shaking

The game, just moments away,
it's the highlight of my day

Butterflies...

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Imagine life without a war,
And just a hockey game to score,
When countries start to point the blame,
They take it out in a hockey game.

If someone threatens our coastline,
We face-off on the centre-line,
A slap-shot and a...

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