Long Kraut Poems

Paddy didn't want to go to his wife's family reunion. He told her that in the same nice way he had told her in years past so as to avoid other reunions over the many...

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Atacama, Eden der Winde,
Blume der einsamen Steine und des Salpeters, 
Heimstatt der Flamingos und der Geysire,  
und  über allem, 
unter einem azurenem und tiefem Himmel 
tragen die Berge auf ihren Spitzen  
das...

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I sing the praises of Sterilite

(even Mary Poppins would tout
a plug for said company she would spout
forcing playthings scattered helter skelter
retreating into their respective bins
analogous to a defeated army
beating a hasty retreat after a major...

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After becoming confident 
(das ernest frank gent) handled ignition
jerryrigged knobs, levers, motors, 
nameless other parts quintessentially,
set registers to “understand” vital www xy zone.
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A blitzkrieg capstone detonated explosive forcees
generating horrendous instantaneous jolt, 
Krakatoa lost mighty noise,...

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Red power mode
White digital
Blue logo

My, oh my ...
sweet apple pie!
Patriotic American cheese is turning sour Kraut commie
Democracy is Wisconsin curdling ... penicillin shot
needed between the ailing ballot box,
sho’ ain’t Louisiana Purchase forthcoming

Lady Liberty is bowing...

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For a chum on the occasion of his 50th birthday.  lots of insider jokes I am afraid! The meter totally stolen :-)

You could hear the engine roar, As the van approached the door
And the...

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"Hungarian Festival"
Pro bono bands gradually allure the crowds
Their effort is unmatched while working unique instruments
To make people understand where they came from 
Let us not forget our many predecessors as they sing
About the land beyond...

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Nigh on sixty years ago this Yankee from the State of Indiana,
Wed a lovely Confederate lass from the State of Louisiana!
I thought I knew her pretty well by the time our vows were read,
But there...

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In the middle of a Thai hot summer, we ventured
into the high hills of North Thailand.
We were medics, a small out-reach team
serving the scattered rural villages
of that remote area.

Klauss, a dour civic engineer, by his...

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He had taken the last train to Stalingrad. ´Join the Army and see the World´. 

The track of events unfolded when the tank chains came off. His brother had 

bombed Guernica with the Condor Legion,...

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I have a dog that lives with me his name is Sherlock Bones,
He loves to sing his songs to me in beautiful Bloodhound tones.

He sings a song of deep regret when he does something wrong,
It’s...

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It’s the time of the year for Oktoberfest,
The nip in the air, the leaves skittering about
A fall festival that rates among the year’s best.

Custom beers and homemade pretzels to test
While giving to German heritage a...

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I offer you the Roundabout:
a little form sublime.
Tough? Au contraire!
But do beware:
you must be in your prime.

Don’t simply trust to whether I’m
correct; just take the dare.
It helps to score
some pithy fours
that add a certain flair.

Abandon...

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A good luck meal on New Years Day, consists of many things,
They say it makes a difference on what the New Year brings.
I got to thinking ,wow, what luck, for the pig that gave that...

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Eyebrows on noses and whiskers on women
Large rats and wombats that suckle my kitten
Penguins that waddle in hot sulfur springs
These are a few of my befuddled things

La da, di da da

Piglets that paddle in puddles...

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*1169, Rawmaish

Be complainers they are without a doubt,
and compliments they may well do without,
when rumors to change their scheme,
like green, whiskey...built up steam,
also Irish stew to Sauer kraut,

Till Saint Patrick's became Saint George, was it,
all...

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Before the Deluge,
God had forbidden
His chosen people 
to eat animal flesh...
it was after the Big Flood
that He ordered Noah
and his family to eat it.
Why be reluctant to eat pork
on New Year's Day...
is it dirty and...

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There's a land to visit in your dreams

a place that really has, it seems,

no Brussels sprouts or cauliflower,

no cabbage, broccoli or sauer-

-kraut or parsnips or broad beans, 

and where peas truly are the only greens.

Spuds...

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A weekly meal at home
Pork chops boiled in sour kraut
But there’s another good luck meal
I’d like to tell you about

My big brother served our country
During the Vietnam War
He said the Navy fed him well
But there...

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For our New Years ‘good luck meal’ we’re have’n Pork on a – 
‘SPIT' - son
No I didn’t say – ‘SPIT’- son
(I wipe my eye)
Yes I did say ‘SPIT‘- but not ‘too – SPIT’
It is...

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the chartered
bus stops in
an aire of
released
brake

pressure
clambering
while clamoring
out of the bowels
of the snake hissing

door's mouth
spitting out
pork and
souer
kraut

you wouldn't think
we're in Greece
tropical colors
of Hawaiian
sunsets

offset by white
socks pulled
nearly 
to the 
knee

the smell
of sunblock
cooking on flesh
frying pans of fat
men...

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I elicit rebuke
it’s not even a fluke
I tire and I bore-nothing new here in store
I feel pain
like the rain 
but the drain is arcane
I flip and flop
I start and I stop
I rip and I tear
but...

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