Long Lester Poems
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My CompilationMany of my favorite poems
How About This for Veterans Day
A monthly Monday morning military meeting
Would be great for them as way of greeting
Talking about things happening another day
Of past successes and prices they had to...
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Categories:
lester, analogy,
Form:
I do not know?
Many of My Favorite PoemsHow About This for Veterans Day
A monthly Monday morning military meeting
Would be great for them as way of greeting
Talking about things happening another day
Of past successes and prices they had to pay.
Enlisted Term of Service...
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Categories:
lester, allegory, analogy,
Form:
I do not know?
Gitter Dunn - 2nd Half In Text - Plus Full Audio VersionThis is the 2nd Half - sorry, this is the only way to get my long pieces posted - an full length audio version is also posted
“Every single person, and the minister agreed…and just...
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Categories:
lester, father,
Form:
Narrative
Cultivated Love - Both Audio and TextThis piece was inspired by a similar conversation I had - only with my father - when I was in my teens, shortly before he passed away from cancer. This was tough to write -...
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Categories:
lester, inspirational, love,
Form:
Verse
Our Lives Are But a Blink - Both Audio and TextLife is way too short for some, and far too long for others -
“Says here, ‘Lester Kiblingworth - a former county sheriff - and oldest man in Sidwell, passed away at one-oh-three,’”
I announced to...
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Categories:
lester, life,
Form:
Rhyme
When All That's Left Are PhotographsI’m sitting here, at ninety-six, alert an’ fairly healthy,
wondering what the ones I loved in days gone by would think
To see me now, the last there is of all of my relations,
with only...
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Categories:
lester, inspirational, memory,
Form:
Verse
Acknowledgements1. John Desmond Patrick Keegan
2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
3. Sally Aline Mae Beller
4. Charles Edward A. Berry
5. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce...
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Categories:
lester, appreciation, dedication, inspiration,
Form:
List
Who Said That
Two old friends
(who haven’t seen each other
in quite some time)
running into each other on the
corner of Linwood and Clairmount
— A Detroit westside encounter
Man, it’s good seeing you Joe,
how is ...
Aw, Moms doing just fine....
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Categories:
lester, friend, humorous, philosophy, satire,
Form:
Light Verse
Lost In Britain and Lost In The USA
LOST IN BRITAIN
Poling, Patching, Nether Wallop,
Matching Tye and Droop
Plumpton, Lickfold, Puddletown,
Westward Ho! and Throop.
Hole of Horcum, New Invention,
Boghead, Frome, Cat's Ash
North Piddle, Staines and Pen*stone,
Wash Dyke, East Breast and Flash.
Six Mile Bottom, Mudford...
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Categories:
lester, america, england, humor, humorous, london, places, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Holy Spirit MomentsI’ve never experienced hallelujah or come-to -Jesus moments
like I’m sure many religious folks do.
I’ve never spoken in tongues (nor would I want to).
I don’t believe I was ever moved much by the Holy Spirit in...
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Categories:
lester, god,
Form:
Prose
Uncle Lester - Both Audio and TextDevlan Caldwell Bachenmeister owned the largest factory that Pinkerton, New Hampshire ever had.
Almost everyone in town was working at that plant, but not, of course, my cousin Maynard’s dad.
Uncle Lester simply wouldn’t work for...
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Categories:
lester, humor,
Form:
Narrative
The ReunionThe sixty-year reunion
of the class of '55
was quite a celebration
for the ones who had survived...
First came prissy Pomeroy-
then Milford, Meeks, and Moody
who like old crows, perched and cawed
at busty old Miss Trudy
While Trudy curled her...
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Categories:
lester, age, character, growth, humor, humorous, people, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
Cowboy LogicHe was a cowboy problem child
rescued by a mendicant sage brush sorcerer
resulting in his remembering everything
flawlessly insolently permanantly
birth death life things in space have a beer
owner of his own head at last
thanks to whiskey tainted...
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Categories:
lester, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Bat and Gat: Chicken ThiefWhat a sad day out on the farm;
A raccoon got a chicken, did harm.
At the edge of the heather,
The large pile of feathers
Was enough to raise the alarm.
Bat and Gat knew they’d need an assist,
So...
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Categories:
lester, animal, hero, silly,
Form:
Limerick
AmericaAmerica
Well you should have seen turkey Sal
She fills herself with packs of Pall Mall
And not to forget about Coonskin-Cap Jack
Always a-travelling with a riffle on his back
The greatest thing a man can see
Is the vast...
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Categories:
lester, america, thanksgiving, usa,
Form:
Epic
Grand Mal Seizurebig Yawn Productions presents
the daytime drama Living Therapeutically
as others live randomly or habitually
you'll need a supply of 3-D glasses
and I know just the guy
a trailer park Samuel Becket
cheeks rosy like Mr. Stalin
sitting atop the dustbin...
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Categories:
lester, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Black OpsBlack Ops
Tex Lester and his sidekick Lumpy Bascom
wiggled down the arroyo on their bellies
to better observe a latifundista trouble spot
too hot to touch so they tap danced instead
Lumpy grabbed the walkie talkie and said...
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Categories:
lester, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Elegy For Lady DayELEGY FOR LADY DAY
'For all we know, this may be only be a dream
We come and go like the ripples on a stream'
Thus it was you sang with body wracked and failing
Yet with that unmistakable...
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Categories:
lester, eulogy, inspiration, memory, missing,
Form:
Elegy
The War of No ClothesAt the apex of the world which was where I was created
In the cosmos, I fought for love……..butt naked
I’ve gone where time was only known by the beat of our hearts
And brothas wonder what’ s...
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Categories:
lester, loveworld, love, me, time, endurance,
Form:
I do not know?
32 Years of Nothing Love Aplenty Abyss Annoyance Answered Abeyancecan u tell me whomwhatwhere I am
or is everyone to blame
must i lose all Butt one limbs
and never hope to be the sames
I hide the mymemine unto all within'ins
and neverthewheretohereforwondery i was given
I don't know...
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Categories:
lester, analogy, emotions, humor, marriage, relationship, romance, sad
Form:
Free verse
If Your Not the Part of the Solution Your the Part of the ProblemI’m from the hood where the politicians don’t do squat for the poor/
I represent the modern day Black man/
The Black educated politician and activist that care about only one Damn
thing when...
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Categories:
lester, art, black african american, confusion, dedication, depression,
Form:
I do not know?
A New Country SongA NEW COUNTRY SONG
I was ravaged today
by
three country songs
on the truck radio
each moaning the lyrics
". . daddy's pickup truck"
and "the Georgia mud"
while whining that
"she was leavin' me!".
(God! What woman
would not leave...
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Categories:
lester, humor, music, social, song, , western,
Form:
Free verse
The Fifties Were Really and Truly Not All That SquareThe Fifties were really and truly not all that square
Though that dullard Dwight D. sat in the Executive Chair
And his frumpy wife Mamie had really bad hair
Matching those dowdy, plain dresses she'd wear ...
While husbands...
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Categories:
lester, conflict, culture, history, myth, nostalgia, society,
Form:
Rhyme
SCHOOLING PIGLETS
Mama warthog decided it was time,
To take her two piglets for a walk,
She wanted to take them up a steep climb
For it would make them strong, but first had a talk
With her young ones, about...
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Categories:
lester, mother,
Form:
Free verse
Country MusicCOUNTRY MUSIC
I was ravaged today
by
three consecutive country songs
on the radio while driving
each moaning the lyrics
". . daddy's pickup truck"
and "the Georgia mud"
while whining that
"she was leavin' me!".
God what woman
would not leave if...
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Categories:
lester, humorous, , western,
Form:
Free verse