Long Hollar Poems

The rivers are racing with a glee of free morning stampede today
carrying the currency of silted centuries and the cool silk of the wind's summer saga,
within my heart I feel the rambunctious rush of wanderlust
this...

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Mornin coffee thinkin of you!
Simmers thoughts of a wonderful brew,
as dreams of romance percolate into view!
Such an awesome aroma I sense,
if we were to become more intense!
How's about a warm slow roast,
somethin that you'll like...

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What is a dream truly if a dream 
Is to be seemingly pleasures of 
Trickles and measured by treasures 
All senses ALIVE is this a dream of
The dream when all was a twinkle
Of time on...

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ON A PASSING CLOUD THERE FLOATS A DREAM 

Haunted by a long lost love tis the cold golden fall
The gilded leaves of autumn sigh crying in the night
On a passing cloud there floats a dream...

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Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem: My Child
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: September 1986
Copyright: 1986

Come here 
my child
   set down lets 
talk awhile -
  
  Tell me
Where does 
time go?

    I know that 
someday soon
    you'll gather
your things;
   give me a hug,
and...

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grab yourself its hang time, out with with me about we see,
anything honestly, create it and believe, reason be thieves,
if uneducated on spiritual businesses, responsibility is yours
to live free but you missed cause not knowing...

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L ittle voices, rising in volume and pitch
I mploring teacher, begs all available aids to help pop 
C oats, hats, muffs, mitts, sweaters, gloves, socks, shoes, and boots on 39
K indergarten urchins who are galloping...

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learn
A B C D E F G
H I J K L M N O P
learn
Q R S
T U V
W X 
Y and Z
learn
now I know my ABC's
next time won't you sing with-

STOP

cataclysmic
but all the beats...

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You damn sure aint worth me sweatin over no grave
She sat patiently draggin off her cigarrette 
she thought over and over about the words he said

She remembered the sound of the zipper closing on his...

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All the crazy things 
The night brings
Lost to dreams 
Wood and beams
Then I had to fire yesterday 
Couldn't forget what it had to say
Lost to tick and the tock
Couldn't keep up with the clock
All the...

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I ATE A GRASSHOPPER
                               ...

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She's high class like a scholar
sweetest thing since dessert 
She'd prolly be with a doctor
if I wouldn't of got to her first
When I go over to hollar
I compliment on her purse
The gucci's coming high dollar
which...

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My goodness but its hot
I'm wringing wet.
"Women perspire," he said,
"only men sweat."

Well, guess again buddy
maybe la-de-dah ladies perspire,
but Real Women sweat
and right now I'm on fire.

In high school my mother
would take me to the beauty...

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an abominable monster
an adorable man
and a good little whore
with a bible in hand
came strolling along
in tune to song
until Winter said
…. a birthday went wrong

" yo merry! "
and the tramp don’t know
your dirty skirt drips
from the...

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Written by Gail DeBole on July 1, 2014
Updated on July 4, 2014


Fred Sr. doesn't like most things that start with e-.
Thumbs down to e-banking, e-books, and e-asy.
He's known to hollar, “I hate all this e-stuff!”
E-learning,...

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A Bad Day for Mom

Back in the forties a long, long time ago
A dollar to her name, and four kids in tow,

My mother was headed to the grocery store
But needed to pee as soon as...

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For you O God
I just, just wanna dance
For you, in your grace
For your embrace
Father Halal just wanna dance
Just give me a chance, wanna dance with you...

People in the congregation
Think that you need rhythm
No offense taken
All...

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Cryptic follicles of alphabetical equations
  poised together making sentences paragraphs letters of evasion
     in my problem to get attitude for I disagree with your resolution
     ...

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Spend a dollar and recieve no change.
Go ahead and hollar and just feel strange.
Take a walk right off the ledge.
Don't bother trying to balance on the edge.
The Six-o-Clock News will tell it with no pity.
And...

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If you do a good deed everyday.
Even when you go out to play.
No bad will, will you convey.
And all those you help will gladly say,
"He helped me in every way."
And when the weather turns warm...

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I went down to the graveyard 
just to see my daddy's grave.
I went down to the graveyard
just to see my daddy's grave.
They say it was the whiskey
made my poor daddy misbehave.

Momma used to hollar, 
'Don't...

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it was that day in the summertime,

I brought him my best,

i remember his face,

 an that i laid him to rest,

a teardrop of rejoice,

She hollar his name,

there were cries that reign within me,

an secrecy of...

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I'm having that same old nightmare.
I'm running through the sand...
I've reached the place where someone is...
They're reaching out their hand.

Just as I try to take it
they yank their hand away.
I try to hollar for some...

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I want to act the way it wants me to
I fight hard not to this is true and if I let go it would come out like this
I would scream and hollar so loud to...

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