Long Lucille Poems

Charlie’s Angels, 
 Starsky and Hutch,
 Welcome Back Cotter,
 The Brady Bunch.
 I think I watched TV too much!

 Columbo,
 The Partridge Family,
 Lucille Ball,
 I must confess I viewed them all.

   ...

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Author's note: This is an epic length poem that will have to be split into parts and will be serialized in successive posts.


PART 1

the highway's double line snakes in 
and out of my headlights
they searchlight...

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written too late for the contest, but wanted to post it anyway....

I had one of the most wonderful mom's any human being could have...she lives with me now - with decreasing dementia.., I answer her...

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Alison Alligator eating artichokes on a ant hill,
     watching
     Beverly Bear floating on a cloud over there,
     which developed a leak,
  ...

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Author's note: This is an epic length poem that will have to be split into parts and will be serialized in successive posts.

Part 2

act three

in the third act delirious 
the laws of physics etc.
he coughs...

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When you first get your dog there is a wonderful joy, like he is one
of your own children. You go through a get to know each other period
and a Special bond is developed, with you...

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Author's note: This is an epic length poem that will have to be split into parts and will be serialized in successive posts.

Part 3


Dr. D. confers in panic 
with Rex and boys at the Limbo...

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Dancing and singing along with the rest 
With the sun beaming down
It’s Glasto at its very best

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The teatime slot my favourite spot
Iconic performances from idols past
Still going strong as they sing all night long
Never dreaming...

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In the shadow, under the tender and deep moonlight,
The ghostly insistences bind us in invisible chains,
Your walk, Lucille, through me is a melody,
That stirs through my core, through my frenzied heart.
Through the cracked retinas of...

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Angela, Andy, Amber, angels, ambience, attitudes, altitude, all-purpose flour.
Beds, breakfast, brightness, brevity, butter pecan ice cream, bald eagles. 
Cali, Carolyn, Chelsea, creativity, compassion, craftiness, cleverness. 
Dick, Daisy, Dwight, Deborah, dare devils, delightful deeds, designs.
Emily, Elise,...

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How much sorrow can you take,
when all you think of is true joy?
Very lonely but not hopeless
until another sunrise comes...
you will be wishing, wide-awake,
for the sweet lips of that young boy!


O lonely girl listening to...

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Now there's no old man sitting there,
just an empty rocking chair.
But the things he said will always be around.

The Gambler is now at rest, on a train bound for nowhere.,
and sometimes all the nights can...

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A woman is more 
than solely a woman,
She's nobody's 
but her own,
She embraces
 truth in life 
with compassion
 in her soul.

A woman is more 
than solely a woman,
There's ambition 
on her mind,
There is wisdom
 in...

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When a woman is just a woman
She's nobody's but her own
She embraces truth in life
with compassion in her soul
When a woman is just a woman
There's ambition on her mind
There is wisdom in her words
and...

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The old ones have all gone now
up those Golden Stairs.
There's hay stacked for the horses in the barn.
They're grubbing up potatoes
and stacking corn stalks high
'cause Bertha's coming home tonight
up those Golden Stairs.

Willie is laughing and...

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The lines are blurred when blended
I know first hand that govenment grilled cheese sandwiches
are delicious as I shared them with Phillup my best friend,
black as night and true as time...he was my ace
His mother, my...

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Another crossroad.
Invalids weep when 
wearing another's
soiled diapers suddenly 
disappear.
In spite of the battered off-chance -
from a despondent interruption;
I'm the exposed exception.

Coarse fingers bleed.
My wheelchair spokes 
are hardly friendly.
I proudly bawl when no one 
can see...

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Poet:  Ken Jordan
Poem:  B.B. King
Edited by:  Sparkle Jordan
written:  May 15, 2015


 
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Up on our old tar roof, Friday night, I watched football 
the high school was about a mile from my house. 
You could always hear it at night.  
I could see everything and nothing...

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When a woman  is just a woman
She's nobody's but her own
She embraces truth in life
with compassion in her soul
When a woman is just a woman
There's ambition on her mind
There is wisdom in her words
and...

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The Kennedy Center is known to the world
For honoring those in the arts – 
From Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Astaire,
Whose talents top all of the charts.

Sinatra, Gene Kelly, L. Bernstein, Kazan
And Benny and Lena and...

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   We had Wonder Woman, 
and The Rocky Horror
 Picture Show.
   We had MASH,
 and Hawaii Five-O.

   We had Bonanza,
And the Nanny and 
    The Professor.
...

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Jill and Lucille are two very hungry slugs
They often dine out at their local garden food hubs. 
Lettuce, flowers, fruits, sunflowers and beans
These are a few choices from these veggie canteens.

Some clues are noticed from...

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Hop Scotch,
Whoola Hoops,
Metal Skates,
Skinned knee fates.

Tricycles,
Bicycles.
Motorcycles,
Dripping popsicles.

Hot wheels,
Pin wheels,
Bob Barker's big deals
Spinning on all wheels

Paper dolls,
Sillly phone calls,
Cartoon bits,
Howdy Doody skits.

Mickey Mouse,
Mighty Mouse,
Minny's Micky's spouse,
Vist Little Rascalls club house.

Poodle skirts,
Ben Casey shirts,
Castles made, digg'n dirt,
Boy...

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Like a galaxy of stars, oftentimes the mind is suspended on wings of thought
Being captivated and enchanted by a vision when others ought

Let your dreams trickle down from your perpetually flowing mind to that passionate...

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