Long Jeanette Poems

Whether you have come to possess this compendium of doggerel confessions by chance or by choice, should you decide to venture beyond this page, I politely suggest you consider the contents to be nothing more...

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 Bang! Bang! Who shot and killed
   Jeanette and Harvey Crewe?
 By whose hand was their blood spilled?
   The cops they surely knew.
 Two fatal shots rang out that day
 ...

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scared of falling
ghosts are calling
the pavements getting close
wind rushing through my hair as if being played by ghosts.

i hit the ground
giving a bone cracking sound and people start to gather
they draw my body's outline on...

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Godwin Adizue Ibeh 
(1937-2017)


Mr. Godwin Adizue Ibeh
Aged 79 years
Was and is 
My beloved, doting father
“Is” because he remains
Spiritually present 
Present 
In my memory
Present 
In pictures and mementos 
Present 
In my dreams, smiles and tears 
Present 
In my prayers and imagination
His spirit 
Hovers in the air
Above...

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Everywhere I Look … I See Jennie
Short, Red-Hair and a Smile, So Bright and Pretty
Jeanette … my Older, Big Sister… I Wish I was More Like Her…
        …...

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I met her in 5th grade.
After school we played.
We were inseparable back then.
When we played tag she’s always when.
She was so much shorter than me.
I filled out before she.
She was my best friend.
She was always...

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this is to one of my closest friends who committed suicide, R.I.P Taylor Frostsong/ Jeanette Jenkins


she was my best friend
she was a very close friend but how did I not know
that she was...

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On roads to nowhere/everywhere
white crosses dot the countryside seeking
a final resting place abandoned now to 
wait for plastic flowers to be placed as if 
somehow this will bring closure to loved ones 
who mourn their...

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Every where we looked we seen your smile
You have  left so very many of them as reminders
Reminding us to be joyful
Reminding us how much you loved us
Reminding us to be fully present
So we gathered...

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I love you abundantly, 
So many   things made me to make you  my first love, Oh ! dear Jeanette Mwenembuka Yohali Warally. 
At 18  years old age you were married , conceived and did not...

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He was the leader of the band till age ninety-three
Won the Senior Olympics five-mile race thirty times
In the Depression Dad worked to feed his family
And succeeded by pinching all nickels and dimes

Never raised his voice...

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Bright and blue the dainty butterfly was
Kissing each flower “hello” as she passed
Gently landing on their blooms without pause
She scurried carefree, till enough nectar she’d amassed

Raised in captivity in Georgia’s butterfly pavilion
This sapphire wonder had...

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On Christmas Day as she dines alone
at a table with many an empty chair,
she remembers loved ones she had known
who once were sitting there.

In flashes their faces begin to appear.
There’s John who was the first...

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Sanofi now and then
Friends I’ve made so many
Working so hard saving every penny
First guy on the scene 
Angus he was great 
Made me feel welcome
That I appreciate
Joan and Annette 
Tom and Dan 
Lynn and Fitz
Irene...

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Suffer little children to 
come unto 
me, 
Then stand and watch 
as pedophiles 
get caught tried and set 
free, 
But you know the way it 
today 
there's just no room in 
jail, 
So the dregs...

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From an early age i didn`t grasp the concept of value of simple commodities.
              I went against the grain,that simply was not...

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Suffer little children to come unto 
me, 
Then stand and watch as pedophiles 
get caught tried and set free, 
But you know the way it today 
there's just no room in jail, 
So the dregs...

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Suffer little children to come untio

o me,then stand and watch as paedophiles get caught,tried then set free,
But you know the way it is today,there's just no room in jail,so the dregs of our society end...

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TRUST-IN ME by Jeanette Jones based on
Portrait No Twilight Confidences by Cecilia Beaux 1888

Confidently, she speaks, sure of her worthiness. 

Explaining how now, she gets it. 
All I need is faith, even the size of...

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NATURE by Jeanette Jones based on the Portrait No. 2 of Carol Nye Rhoades (Robinson) by Kathrine Nash Rhoades (1915) 

NATURE 

My feet, my feet chilled to the bone, 
as I sit, sitting here alone....

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I’m sinking.
Deeper and deeper I sink.
I’m being torn all different directions.
Torn piece by piece because of my imperfections.
Dye your hair black.
Die your hair blond.
You need muscles and a rack.
We want your hair short and long.
We...

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I know I should not whine or frivolously fret, 
but I believe I have lost my pet marmoset.
I have also lost a blue barrette, a red tea set, 
and a beautifully carved purple aigrette.
They all...

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TIME FLIES by Jeanette Jones 
based on PORTRAIT NO 9 
Morning at the Quay in Venice by Helen Allingham




TIME FLIES


Early still, I rise again. 
For the quails came calling. 
Dragging my feet, I stumbled 
across...

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THE A CAPELLA PIRATE by Jeanette Jones 
based on Portrait No 6, Theater by Mary Cassate 1879 



THE A CAPELLA PIRATE

Be it Pirates of Penzance or H.M.S Pinafore, 
it never really matters. 

His bombastic swaying...

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Jeanette struck gold at the Worlds and Euros, 
The non-Paralympic Worlds and Euros, that is, 
In the sport of canoeing and she has portfolios, 
In the Paralympic world as a swimmer, the biz. 

She’s won...

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