Long Holt Poems

FROM THE DESK OF HUGE GRAPPLYN
IS BEING BOUGHT TO YOU BY
the action packed love story...
"SINGLED"
 THE FILM STARRING
DRICCER DENNLES AND hEATHER HOLT
cinema-cinema films
in theaters
September 29 2019

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October had now come again just like it did back since,
The gunfighter Sam Holt had shot the kid named Benny Pence.

It was on All Hallows’ night with the moon high and blood red—
When Benny came...

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In those bleak fields that so quietly lie - stilled as graves,
Between where the thin wind creaks and upwardly heaves,
Unseen feet can sometimes be heard 
Shuffling through the old woods discarded leaves.

For i have seen...

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a powerful confession in the words of a dying world
lying on his deathbed, he's become a graveyard
his ego spent, he gladly lets go of his sin
before the holt, he takes a final spin
his pride in...

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I stand on the cliff’s edge and look down,
The falling stones, I hear their resound.
I close my eyes to feel the winds embrace,
I sense its touch all over my face.

I’m alone,
No fear...
The white waters pound...

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~I Always Love To Read A Good Book~ 
( Rhyming  Couplet) 


I always love to read a good book 
And sitting down with one beside a brook. 
Non-fiction or fiction, who cares! I'll check...

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G20-Blue

At the G20 meeting, many nations steps they trod,
where the Abbot in his Budgies,  tried to fight the Putin sod,
oh it came down to leaders, now to fight a war for us,
no casualties no...

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PRIORITIES
By Sammy L Holt, Sr.

Throughout our lives we celebrate,
Special events and even some days,
We always allow an amount of time,
And make a big deal in different ways.

The ides of March is no big deal,
But we...

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Arise young man
for you're sat in my chair
it's a black and tan fact that I always sit there.
My body's effete
I envisage a pause
insipid responses are'nt helping the cause.
Disrupting proceedings
congesting the room
I shall rain on your...

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This pain is not my fault 
I was just unlucky
It brings my life to holt
Each stabbing pain, twisting ache
Strikes as hard as a lightening bolt
This cramping is so hard to shake 
Endometriosis is its name
We're...

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Songbird- by Michelle Artiaga
(For my girls Maya Holt and Kira Holt)

It's hard to find the words or deeds to somehow make things right –
To try and mend the broken wing and renew it's joyful flight.
I'm...

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To those who soak up the slanted slop from Fox
Isn’t it time you switched off your black box,
Or, changed to a channel espousing the facts--
All the things your "balanced TV News” surely lacks
I challenge you...

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Like a frosted mini-wheat there is always two sides
As they will continually compete for in whom one abides
Oh that kid side is there but that grown up is there too
But these are not a pair...

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There will be catastrophic damages to our
great nation, if we elect the Project 2025
conservative administration..
They plan to holt all carbon emission goals and
return to drilling oil and gas and coals..
Begin the largest mass deportation.
Eliminate the...

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FAITH IS GOOD
By Sammy L. Holt, Sr.


Have you thought about the time,
That you give to GOD each week,
Is the time your giving HIM,
Is it something HE would seek,

Do you think it’s a habit,
Like the way...

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I don`t believe in fate,where your path is chosen
                          ...

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My love is gone, she left me all alone. Why should I care about this mental affliction, of deep 
affection that has left me blinded and wounded! Although my heart is being tortured with 
torment,...

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You came in a beat up old blue Landie

with tales of sleeping giants on your lips.

It was your first night in the cottage

when the Wye was skipping over stones,

dividing the spiked water milfoil

with sacred Pumlumon...

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It was one year ago today when four innocent people were shot.
The killer thought if he killed the witnesses he'd get away with it but he did not.
Two of those unfortunate people died but the...

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Four shootings took place just five minutes after I left Minnis Downhome Pharmacy.
If I had been there for another five minutes, one of the victims would've been me.
Two of the victims were killed and two...

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Full Bloom

A Rose in full bloom,
such a beautiful sight to see.
In mornin' first dewy light,
lettin' it's pedals free.

Something to admire,
Only from a distance. 
On the back of a good horse,
across a fence.

My life has been...

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The End Of Harold Holt
By Roy Merritt

On December seventeenth, nineteen sixty seven
The Prime Minister of Australia 
Perhaps went off to heaven
He went swimming in the ocean 
Against all good advice
They told him not to do...

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Well lemme tell ya a thing er two bout people,
Ben round plenny of em and ah got sumpin figerred,
Don’t make no diffrence if’n they is under a steeple,
If’n they small, medium, smart, dumb, big er...

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And Arthur sometimes often saw,
A fella lonesome and for sure,
Who could maybe misinform,
His double maybe more.

Becalmed, began to understrum,
The reason for this meeting,
He looked a little bit less young,

“Probably needed to be hung,
Yes that is...

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Happy Happy Birthday Claire Holt

To the 'ABSOLUTELY most STUNNING,
'SOPHISTICATED BEAUTY OF ALL TIME '
with the most
'SPARKLING, PERKY, ENCHANTING PERSONALITY   
that goes with the 
'BRIGHTEST HOMETOWN GOOD-GIRL SMILE'
let me say 
Happy Happy Birthday to...

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