Long Mcconnell Poems

Donald Trump must be permanently lambasted...
and ewe know what else...
furloughed & barred from Whitehouse

Ducks of former self proclaimed Grand Poobah
getting lined up and goosed as these words typed
after trumpeting January 6th, 2021
as violent insurrection
Mitch Mcconnell...

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Do you always have ready excuse
In your pocket for times that life throws you a curve?
What if someone you love ups and dies?
Does it matter at all if they took their own life
Suddenly they’re not...

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Mitch McConnell is a long distance runner,and he runs to win,and he has been running the race,and never gives in!!!Derby Day is his friend in "Louisville Kentucky,and when he bets on the "Derby Horse" it...

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When I feel compassion
with my positive needs
for love
health
trust
safety,

When I feel compassion
for my fears
wounds
negative fortress wants
to overpower perceived threats
against my egocentric compromises
with ruthless capitalism,
soulless patriarchalism,
strategic genocide,
extractive ecocide,
smug and heartless anthrosupremacy,
aggressively diseased LeftBrain dominance
inside my ruminating self
as...

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Hey Mitch McConnell...
about all this talk (I hear) about indefatigable (Phila/ Philly-buster)

Police sirens wail doth punctuate the air
ear splitting soundclouds blare
another typical arrest
(guilty until proven innocent if ever)
so much for Black Lives matter protests
biased accusations...

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In today’s triumph of meditation glory,
Propelled by spiritual intelligence
Driven along truth and righteousness,
I’m grateful to the Lord for lessons in life’s journey
Enriching my youth’s bounty with blessed fulfillment
…answering my quests, notably as to who am...

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Every day...in fact, every 15 minutes,
someone, somewhere in America
picks up a gun and kills another person
for reasons unfathomable

It's a harsh, scalding reality...

Every now and then in our society
someone who shouldn't have an assault rifle,
takes it...

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A SOUPER FRIEND

I searched the Soup, but failed to find 
Just one friend that I call mine
I'm in a tizzy now, you see
'Cause many of you are friends to me

There's Hinshaw, Cunningham, Silent One
Winged Warrior,...

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Would you rather the majestic pure white polar bear had a home
in this world or that Paul Ryan took a slow, slow boat to China & then 
turned around & came back, & then again,...

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A Blinded B47 Pilot

It was another aviation accident case
That had happened at an Air Force Base,
Except this one was more complicated; (Not Top Gun)
From plane, who would pilot be extricated.

Several facts about the case we...

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Written By: D. Collins 9/18/20


What we have should be called the politicians disease.
Since the epidemic started, they've been down on their knees.
Whatever Trupo says, which is his mob name.
McConnell kisses the ring, to show he's...

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This time I blew it, I really blew it
First lost us the House, now the Senate’s gone too,
I'm caught in a spiral, that I'll admit,
Not sure where to turn, not sure what to do.

I'm convinced...

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A LIMERICK ON NOTED SOUP POETS

Bob Hinshaw, Tom Cunningham, James Edward Lee, Sr., Russell Sivey, Gordon McConnell,  Greg Barden, Emile Pinet, Silent One, WingedWarrior, Charles Messina, Gershon Wolf, Richard Lamoureux, Joe Flack, Liam McDaid,...

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Lin Lane and Sandra Haight
Brilliant artists, both paint to bring sheer delight - be it words or pictures.

Vincent Flannery and Gordon McConnell
My brothers in Christ whose words are filled with God's might.

Eve Roper
Prayerful lady who...

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Oh how well I do remember
Dear Miss McConnell’s typing class.
Fumbling fingers seeking home keys,
And so afraid I wouldn’t pass.

The quick brown fox jumps over the…..
I was assigned that exercise.
No lettering on the keypads,
My fingers had...

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Pardon me, sir
    No, you go first
  You have right of way
    I defer to you. Go ahead

  No, really. I'm in no hurry
   ...

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God sent His son on a mission
Jesus Christ begotten of God the father
came down born of a virgin
to save all that He would gather

But God sent His son out of love
not to bring condemnation on...

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   I look around and frown 
     to see eighty-plus-year-old clowns
   stuttering and stumbling around
     the corridors of power... 

   From...

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He speaks of what he knows
Each line expressing in flow
And it touches on what can be grown
Learning how to sharpen a tongue, to hone
Is something I’ve watched brothers fail to show
Not that it is something...

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Can you feel the pain when the city cries.or when one of our youths gets shot down and dies. Its a wonder we still have any youths left to cry for .they are killed so...

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Collaboration by Gordon McConnell and Regina Riddle

Signs of humility is so very hard to find
so many pump up self think they're swell
but they forget God who constantly looks
for humble hearts, of themselves won't tell

Everywhere there...

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I have written over 9,000 poems and am in the Top 10.
Obviously, I enjoy writting poetry. Was born in Portsmouth
Naval Hospital on June 26, 1941. Am the oldest of six
children. Was in the USAF Stationed...

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For one second... Say you had a family member shot and killed in the middle of 5th Avenue...... You would be devastated and rightfully hurt..... Now comes the murder trial of the man who killed...

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My memories of high school
are not good really very bad
truly hated every day there
suffering a stammer made me sad

For first time called McConnell
teaches seemed really right rude
didn't seem to cope with any subject
all of it...

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