Long Juniors Poems

MY Collaboration with Ricky Nelson in the Last Days of 1980

The eventful news of that day about what was found on board that crashed plane, won't replace that particular memory of Mr. Rick Nelson's hearty...

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I have so many places/acts dear to my heart
I’m just dying to share some with you
Not to boast, I but honor them, all played a part,
I'm sure helped to bring me in your view!

Tell me...

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We’re (Lisa and I) back in Athens Georgia (hometown USA), where it’s the halcyon days of summer. The south used to be the home of summer heat - not anymore. Now everyone has their little...

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I’ve only been at my fellowship gig a week, but It’s official, I’m a candy-striper. Sort of, I wear a blue vest, not the old, red-striped dress, but it’s the same job. I shadow my...

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Chapter 3: College Preparation

My freshman year started quite smooth
Touch football broke my leg
My luck we had a tennis coach,
That brought things down a peg!

My algebra was like a dream,
Played tennis, found it fun,
And Science Fairs...

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When I woke up early and rose up with the lark,
I was up so darned early, skies remained dark,
But being happy I rose up to greet the new day,
So after my breakfast I was soon...

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Here in far off Borneo, junior squash players are gathered in numbers...
Young and energetic, these are Malaysia's young hopefuls and contenders...

In the numbing heat within this immense hall, the muted thuds of hard hit balls...
Interrupt...

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When was the last time that someone you met…that was younger than seven or eight…
Told you their name…you repeated it right…and even knew how it was spelled?
I’ve gotta tell ya’…but can’t tell ya’ why, that…close...

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The first big party of the year
Right after the pre-season game
A bunch of juniors and seniors take off
Driving around down the highway.
Pulling up to the designated house
Where the parents aren't at home
They don't know about...

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Am I The Next One

Ladies and gentlemen, girls and boys invited from selected primary schools…
The State Squash Association warmly welcomes each one of you into its fold…

It is more than likely all you parents here...

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African youth on the
Pins and needles, 
Pains...huh!
So painful ...Yooh!. 
African youth shout 
Shout loudly... Eh!

Crying in exposing  the power hunger, 
Which is called selfishness in tongue 
Of genial. 

Some people out there are hungry for...

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A kid goes from
lower kindergarten to
upper kindergarten...
but he's still a cute li'l
kid...

a student finishes
first year of high school
and moves on to the next
but he's still a student
with academic pressures only

again, in college
there isn't much difference...

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Reigate Juniors, late July, in nineteen sixty nine
Miss Leggett crossed the room and slowly pulled down all the blinds
as one by one the summer's morning settled into gloom
the five of us sat quietly in the...

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WHAT  A  PLEASURE IS  THIS ONE ?

It was a dull an evening Sunday
Nothing except HCL,was in my stomach
Asked my daughter to prepare some snacks
Until now here,she cooked nothing for me...

I am crossing...

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I’m what you consider fat. 
You can blame genetics. 
You can blame McDonalds.
You can blame your mother.
You can blame your father. 
You can blame the temptation of the delicious donut you just ate.
It doesn’t matter....

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‘Hey Familiar’ 
How about we make a family Yeah?
I made up these lines, To ,make your face shine
Do you want to go to my place I got wine?
For real I want to make you mine
I’m...

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We’re shape-shifting, my roommates and I. Transitioning mentally from freshmen and sophomores (nobodies) into juniors (somebodies). We’ve been around, we’re not the new kids anymore. We’re being seen and appreciated. It’s a mindbang.

There was a...

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Aled was born in Bridgend in South Wales, 
With hemimelia, or without a right fibula, 
And throws shot put and discus F42 tales, 
By training at Wales’s sports institute mega. 

An MBE, born on the...

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(a poem in genZ slang)

square-up marys,
It’s junior year, in the ivie,
we’re gambling for big-chips.
so gambate, do-it-big!
It's time, buck-up or labron.
if you bunny rouble
homeskillets will hook-it-up
lovems juju
.
.
slang…
girlogue = conversation between girls that guys can’t understand
square-up =...

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Bravado and gaiety,
Marked the laity,
They were intoxicated,
From the problem they had been extricated,
There was a man,
Who was the swan,
Among celebrating also swams,
He gesticulated victorious,
And puffed and smelled the air,
His chest was pulled out,
As he marshaled...

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They Fly Tonight

As I had wished yesterday, 
       do have a safe, nice and comfortable flight today…

Hopes are running high, 
       this Malaysian...

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ONTOLOGY

Water drips from the hairs on my arms, hands 
held high to avoid contamination. I can’t wait 
to begin. I guess this Adrenalin rush is what an actor feels  
before he strides on stage....

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With economics to high standarts of life,
We are not transpassers in our own country!
And it's no wonder why, because our fathers,
Our children and our mothers, 
All we are free and united,
Every day and sometimes on...

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Valiantly They Go Into Battle

Go forth into yonder distant land…
Valor in your hearts and squash rackets in your hands…

Go forth into the battlegrounds yonder…
Play valiantly so that all will be in awe and be held...

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Wanted
Your Child For One Week
(Vacation Bible School)
By Tom Wright
7/17/2002

Lord,
‘mongst us, send those with fertile minds,
entrust to us, all those with willing hands.
Those not biased, or callused from Satan’s binds,
who will travail, united, as the oceans...

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