Long Lloyd Poems

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The Great PoetrySoup Poets in as of now
1.NoMatter What
2.Roses are Red...

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The Story so far continued from 'Visitor'…
An attractive extra-terrestrial female researcher sent to a remote island to observe earth and beam back her findings is struggling with unfamiliar, alien romantic emotions. Even though she is...

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There is a large cattle property in the Northern Territory of Australia
   where the bores are named after Famous cricketers and that prompted 
    this piece.

    ...

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Day 1
I am a wheelchair warrior
It is August-Hel's rune ,Ear is here
What needs to die in the next 5 days?
That which hinders  growth anyways
US sends USS Georgia to Hell's Armpit
Bad move by America, I...

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among the countless thugs
   that teased and taunted myself as a boy
who exhibited blatant characteristics
   of being painfully shy and coy
attempting to remain like a statue as a decoy
which tactic nada...

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His parents' worst nightmare that left them disheartened
is the sad tragic tale of Dennis Lloyd Martin

On a family outing at Cades Cove park
Dennis, his brother and some friends on a lark

Playing hide and go seek...

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[A cuppa with mademoiselle Fana Tesfagiorgis] 

I had just driven my ageless self into the Kaufmanns’ 1936–1939 
Frank Lloyd Wright-constructed Pennsylvania getaway:Falling Water Mansion– 
In a 1959 Harley Earl, Cadillac Eldorado Convertible, and in the...

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According to Robert Breaker,  Wisdom of God is a mystery 1st Corn. 2:6,7
Rm.16:25-27 Redeem, reign. First Jesus came as a Lam, who died on the
cross/the second coming He will return as a Lion.

These are...

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If it was not for¡¦

Beyonce Irreplaceable, I would not have put his bags out and told him he must 
not know about me!  Because if it was not¡¯t for Destiny¡¯s Child, I would not...

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Robert Lloyd Sherriff - Australian Poet, Author, Actor, and Model: American Historian.

Robert Lloyd Sherriff - Australian Poet (Born: 8th July 1954)

Robert Lloyd Sherriff - Follow if you want to be a better poet

An Ode to...

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Enemy Mine


An enemy imagined is greater than an enemy that is real. For a real enemy can be killed, but an imagined enemy is invincible. No matter how much money we spend on defence, he...

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"Is there anyone for stuffing?
Well done George, send us down your plate,
Auntie, if you've finished with the cranberry sauce
Could you please pass it across to Kate?"

"Brian can I interest you in my brussels?
There's nothing quite...

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Footsteps in the Snow


In the cold grip of winter’s night it is the season of nature’s rest. All is not at peace in this time of rest for the forest. All does not sleep.

The call...

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                A Simpler Time
                ...

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Robert Lloyd Sherriff - Australian Poet, Author, Actor, and Model: American Historian.

Robert Lloyd Sherriff - Australian Poet (Born: 8th July 1954)

Mirror

Time Does Not Wait For Anyone, Rich or Poor
One day nearer to the life’s journey’s...

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I’ve a vast store of mem’ries about Chicago
as I’ve lived there for a couple of years
helping out in the parish of many immigrants,
especially Mexicans and Puerto Ricans.

I’ve made friends and a number of them
still continue...

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 Continued from Part 1 

Matt Dillon chases Jack LaLane
Around a roller derby lane
I think I need some more cocaine,
So please don’t ever come back Shane

I try to walk another street
When me and Walter Cronkite...

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"The 50 Move Rule"



Thomas Crown 
rolled his smile 
around her frown

Romance blew a warm breath
over her pristine cowrie shell
Voodoo Mojo Bag

There, 
just there, 
an Ocean made a Blue move

In the Red
Life
Black Black White

White White Black
Read,
A...

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Robert Lloyd Sherriff - Australian Poet, Author, Actor, and Model: American Historian.

1910

In another life, beneath the Southern Cross,
In lands where eucalypts whisper tales of old,
An artist's soul was in turmoil, the path was lost,
A century...

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Robert Lloyd Sherriff - Australian Poet (Born: 8th July 1954)

Solar Flares 

In the heart of the Northern Territory,  
Where the sun's fierce arms reach out hungrily,  
Solar flares, like celestial artistry,  
Ignite...

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Dad was a Deputy Sherriff
My uncle a city cop
My Dad’s car was an unmarked one
My uncle’s had lights on top

Dad had mounted a big siren
In the grill, under the hood
The switch was below the dashboard
He...

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Your parents gave me the news at Wilton's Music Hall
a place of joy and drunkenness
Laurel and Hardy, Hetty King, Marie Lloyd and now
A Great Aunt.
A figure of jest, jeers and laughter
what fun, what fun.

A great...

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(alternately titled: whipping and pommel ling 
das soar addle brain) 

My most recent deuce score 
     plus three bajillion ban
an nah ram ma orbitz
 squared bob sponge pants 
  ...

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Death of The Half Monkey King      ( for my friend Neil Lloyd )

Cave men half human monkeys 
Sat gibbering and snarling
Perched all around his garden wall
Bestial vandals waving sticks and...

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The Lynching

Oh how it is, to be an oak tree, 
one time a nut and now mighty. 
One time blooming in the bright sunlight, 
now it is tarnished by winter’s blight. 

So hideous and putrid...

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