Long Hoffman Poems

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The Great PoetrySoup Poets in as of now
1.NoMatter What
2.Roses are Red...

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The Ash Can  ©

I got the call on Sunday night.  I was traveling on business.  When I looked at the caller ID
 I wondered why my husband’s boss would be calling me....

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_ a symphonic, folk rock, blues song
1.
I'm an old man looking
For the lost, best parts of me.
I'm an old man looking
For the lost, best parts of me.
I'm looking in the places
Where the people say love...

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I had an old auntie called Mable
Who could drink men under the table
She’d tell folks of her gout
Sup up six pints of stout  -
then stagger to the loo when able!

11~23~16

WRITTEN BY JAN ALLISON


My paternal...

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Amélie Beth Harris -McGeehan

Acknowledgment of birthday gal,
whose invaluable priceless worth
exceeds more'n a bajillion dollars.  

First born of Boyce and Harriet
(both long since deceased,
albeit cremated whereby their ashes
- cremains scattered to the four winds)
in Paterson,...

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There's a pesky mosquito hoverin' around our ears
If he keeps it up he'll soon be splattered in smears
T-Buzz tries to draw our blood
When he gets hit with a THUD!
We'll celebrate his demise with a party...

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I have attempted to capture my favorite major league baseball players in this little shape poem of home plate. Included are (in no particular order):

Say Hey Willie Mays       ...

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P S IT’S POETRY WRITE ON WRITE ON CONGRATS TO MY FELLOW POETRY SOUPERS PART 7



any thanks to you selected poets; Of sharing your whispers from God, tho you didn’t know it; Each letters and...

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P S IT’S POETRY WRITE ON WRITE ON CONGRATS TO MY FELLOW POETRY SOUPERS PART 8
Many thanks to you selected poets; Of sharing your whispers from God, tho you didn’t know it; Each letters and...

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This Poem Was Written In Math Class Passing Notes Between My Best Friend Brooke 
And I...Its Dedicated To John Hauser And Justice Hoffman. The Savages Of Our Hearts. 
It Starts With Her And Goes To...

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Walking the yard with shovel in hand
Cruising back and forth just as planned
Trying to pick up every last pile
If the wife steps in one she gets hostile

Didn't think this through from the start
Three dogs are...

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This Poem Was Written In Math Class Passing Notes Between My Best Friend Jess (Rain) 
And I...Its Dedicated To John Hauser And Justice Hoffman. The Savages Of Our Hearts. 
It Starts With Her And Goes...

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??~ Day by Day ~??
                              ...

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**** A Starry Night ****



Together under a starry night,
Under a moon shining bright,
Having you in my sight,
Fills me with true delight

My heart beats out of my chest,
My emotions never cease, never rest,
Being beside you is...

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Magic for a day
A gift or a curse
Would it help anything
Or just make it worse

With so many options
Of what you could do
As I started to think
I wrote down a few

World peace,my first thought
A day without...

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The Kennedy Center is known to the world
For honoring those in the arts – 
From Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Astaire,
Whose talents top all of the charts.

Sinatra, Gene Kelly, L. Bernstein, Kazan
And Benny and Lena and...

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I recently watched a documentary on savants

In particular, Daniel Tammet, whose mathematical abilities

As well as other astounding mental capabilities

Will not only blow your mind

You'll probably say to yourself, “this is some kind of trickery

What he...

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It was the Nebraska Corn Huskers annual spring game
When near the end they called out Jack Hoffman's name
A seven year old boy on treatment break from a brain tumor
And today he was going to get...

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I recently watched a documentary on savants
In particular, Daniel Tammet, whose mathematical abilities
As well as other astounding mental capabilities
Will not only blow your mind
You'll probably say to yourself, “this is some kind of trickery
What he...

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Unclimbed Stairways
              by Odin Roark

At the base of the stairs
He lay on his back
Upon his chest
He propped his hero

Peering up through GI...

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I 
do 
have a 
Message for
one Harry Manback
it does regard his long Lost Keys
don't Blame Hoffman for his Disposition, you Jerk Off!
You Lied when you said you didn't hold The Grudge as a Reflection of...

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˜ Lost ˜


Under a veil of canvass black,
Beneath glowing stars looking back,
Venturing where I could never dare,
My eyes gaze upward, beginning to stare

Your image engraved deep in my mind,
With purest beauty immensely refined
Often as I...

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•*• Dreams of Oblivion •*•



I lay back and think
Drifting off – I sink
Dreams of oblivion unfold
Of true loves destiny told

You came to me with a reason
Despite the woes of loves treason
Knowing it was more than...

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? ?? In My Life ?? ?




There's been sorrow, there's been pain
There's been heartaches to my disdain
Through my eyes, anyone can see
All these events have created me

Times I had spent as a child
Where dreams ran...

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O.D.'d

major retrospective, devoted to his life's work
was he ordinary man, or something of a quirk
looking back at pale-lit gallery resumé
was he prophetic genius or just overworked

Obsessive destructive, objective destiny,
some type of truth, some sense of...

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