Long Lem Poems

Let me tell you a story, a story of woe:
a tale of a pup who got lost in the snow.
Daughter Laura, our eldest, came up to see us,
drove home in a Jeep (to rhyme, insert...

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Tidying Love All Up
by Lem Griffiths
July, 2016

Carefully, I asked, 
'What's with all the bleach in the pan?
All the week?'
She was the newly appointed Assistant Land Lady.

'It brings it all up the whiter', she came back..
I...

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Same within.Introspection of Sea Change

08/06/2016
Lemuel Griffiths
aka
Lem Gunn




Fiercest of battles above my head,
Same within.
 
Blue battling the grey,
'Never ending turmoil throughout time.

''I coulda' saved her, 
Kept her sane., 

Love is strange'' .., I told him.., concluded,...

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The Love Cup, Northern Star.
by 
Lem Griffiths

Dash it.., 
Dash it all says I.., 
Through bars - I espy.
Their 'eaven, their night sky.

Well.., dash it., 
Let 'em have it., 
And the Northern-
Love cup-stars,
In a wisp of...

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The Love Cup, Northern Stars.

by 

Lem Griffiths

September, 2,016


Dash it.., 
Dash it all says I.., 
Through bars - I espy.
Their 'eaven, their night sky.

Well.., dash it., 
Let 'em have it., 
And the Northern-
Love cup-stars,
In a wisp...

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A Right To Swear

by 
Lem Griffiths

July, 2016.


Young gulls - love., 
How that fickle wind blows,
Soaring, dive bombing., 
As their fancy takes, not a 'blue sky' care -
O'er the chaos below-screeching of laughter,
They've earned the right...

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Beasley and I

Lem Griffiths

July, 2016


Henrietta D. something,
Never did mind him on top 'her,
'Least she never said, t'other, anyhow .
Beasley's my friend.., 
Comes and goes his own ways - and whenever -
Rises and rests with the...

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Jasper Newton Daniel was born in 1850.
He hailed from a small town called Lynchburg in Tennessee.
Jack was born on a farm located in Moore County.
He was one of twelve children born to the family.
At an...

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Ever since earthly life began its cycle
man has thought they were in control
anything was achievable no matter what
so thought the human mind but they stole

They were thieves of their own destiny
for only the creator has...

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Incandescentallaisticproblematicalabrationistical.

Dictionary entry number one:

incandescentallaisticproblematicalabrationistical

sounds like:

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eye was searching eye was looking to impress my emporess 

my emporess is not easily impressed she is much smarter

than the rest and her beauty is mine to keep 

eye decided...

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I’m Elderly and Ain’t No Shame

I ‘m elderly and it ain’t no sin;
Ain’t no shame;
That I’m out on a lem;
America where you’ve been;
Won’t you come help me;
Churches are you praying;
Won’t you come help me;
People stop...

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These two old pups are near and dear;
I’ve kept them both throughout the years.
Lyra’s brindle, still cheetah-fast;
Lemony’s best years, in the past.
The thought of losing brings a tear.

When daughter schooled quite far from here 
and...

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