Long March out Poems

To be a polylepis tree you gotta know 
You're a polylepis tree & this knowing 
Cements by being a polylepis tree,
Knowing between diagrammatic cracks
Fork'd already info knowing during descent.
Mud run through alpine meadow. Rubberized 
Crunch...

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Back in seventeen eighty-one
The revolution hit hard times,
Britain had taken Charlestown
And at Camden had crushed the lines

Of General Horatio Gates,
Leaving nobody to resist,
Except the Swamp Fox Marion
Who alone was able to persist.

South Carolina had fallen,
And...

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Cheers of excitement roar from up ahead.
Our sounds of warm-up drift through the air.
Just even that part gets our adrenaline pumping.
We start to walk perfectly in step.
The clicks, the crowd, and the sound of blood...

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Almost a century ago
Innocent blood was spilt
Almost a century ago
But there remains the guilt

The world must acknowledge
The Armenian genocide
The blood won’t wash away
There is no place to hide

One million and a half
Of Armenians met death
Their...

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Marching together, instep, one by one,
heeding our country's call of duty.
Sixteen of us following the beaten trail,
one traveled by many of our band of brothers.
Three divisions of us are already there,
feeling, seeing, the horror of...

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Refugees came running from Hitlers rule
Save these victims from a death so cruel!
"Never again!" were the words they muttered
"We must defend our land" soon they uttered 

Building your home on someone else's land
Planting your flag...

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U: “March out, arm in arm, Americans all.”
Q: (Keep freedom’s fires stoked and burning.)
U: “Unfurl Old Glory while we heed the call.”
Q: (Tell the truth to all the young ones yearning.)
U: “Take back your land...

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Footprints by the river’s edge,
     leading close around the bend,
Leave behind the memories
     of young days that came to end.
Whispers on a morning’s breeze
   ...

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ANOTHER GRADUATION

Another graduation!  The seniors walk the aisle,
They stop and face the audience, they pose there with a smile.
Another graduation!  Their school years now are through,
They have a great decision now just what...

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A pendulum swings 
Right, left, right, left
A bomb flies out and there is no life left to detect

A pendulum swings 
Left, right, left, right 
A new born baby is being delivered tonight

A pendulum swings
Right, left,...

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Timidity ran all over me, 
I got frightened for the day
Corpers march out of the camp
Bidding service to their homeland bye
A compulsory year for “ajuwaya”. 

Of waste to many 
Of hilarious time out to some
Of...

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Writing this letter
As I'm sitting in my company.
We're about to march out
To keep our country free.
Dear mother at home,
I love you.
Don't ever doubt
I do.
I miss you
Be safe and sound.
Love, your soldier
From a small town.
Talking to...

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On the count of three we will all stand up.
We will walk out and we will not look back.
They cannot expel all of us, right?
We are convinced it is the smart thing to do.
We agree...

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Two little boys march out of doors to play.
The blue and cloudless sky won’t be denied.
But puddles still remain from yesterday
When crashing thunder caused them both to hide.

The rain has filled the sandbox like a...

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Welcome to Chicago!
Where women march like soldiers 
in their tennis shoes, wearing their stuffy suits

Welcome to the windy city.
The women dare not wear full skirts.
Their high heels are in their desk drawer

Welcome to the Magnificent...

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The beat is so enchanting

as we march out of the rising sun

arm in arm, facing all our fear

dancing to songs we only hear

we skip along together

on days we truly treasure

playful touches, silly faces

with you life...

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Thirty-two imperfect kisses march out across the very first page of a scattering 
Of another lover's love letters.
A book which, read cover to well-loved cover in an hour or so, 
Contains unimaginable sadness and unabridged...

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  The brooms march in,
  The brooms march out,
  All the leaves floating about!

  My troop of brooms,
  Keeps the leaves at bay,
  Hope to keep them outside today!

...

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