Long Melvin Poems

YOU ARRIVED ON CUE I SUPPOSE RIGHT AFTER THE CHRISTMAS DAY ARSONS MURDERS PROCLAIMING MY LIFE WAS IN GRAVE DANGER WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ARSON MURDER 8 ELDERLY PERSONS PARISHES PROCLAIMED MY EX HUSBAND...

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All the guys and gals that I had graduated with, from Jimmy Dorsey High School, back in 1935,
Half a century later were dispersing all around us, surprising me with whom among my class was still...

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History's Sad Song (Revised)

throughout my life
I've heard many a sad song
relating to the lyrics
that seemed to play too long

way back during the Crusade
where religious debt was paid
by the bloodlust of so many
could not ye God...

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She said that she is not that pretty
And she doesn't go to the gym or exercise
She said that she's a little on the chubby side
And she likes her burgers and French fries

She said why to...

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I'm Melvin, C.E.O. of T.W.I.S.T.,,,which stands for "The Way I See This"...
Here's some facts if you care to listen,
 they're about people called Bedside Christians.
Do they love the Lord?, sure they say so,
 if you...

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he sits in back of the class
                            ...

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Dear fellow Poetry Soup Poet friends and Poetess friends!

I am so happy to announce my new Country Song 
"My Country Heart Is Burnin' So Hot"

You can see and hear the lyrics and video 
at the...

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#A GIFT...AN UPLIFT! A GLORIOUS SHIFT  OCCURS WHEN HAVING BEEN PRIVY TO AN OUTSTANDING SINGER! THE NEXT THING YOU KNOW, YOUR HEART FEELS A GLOW...
BECAUSE A SINGER HAS MOVED YOU SO...

"A SINGER HAS M...

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Mary knew John before you
Who knew Jane before Sam
Obviously there was Sally, Melvin and Tim
The Tim who wore glasses 
Since the other Tim did not

The brother of Mary, who's name escapes me
Visited John's mother yesterday...

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The instructor said,

Go home and write
a page tonight.
And let that page come out of you--
Then, it will be true.

I wonder if it’s that simple?
I am twenty, an average girl, born in Chicago.
I went to school...

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It was a good day, a Sunday going to church day.
     The sun was  a brilliant glow.
    The weather was agreeable, a welcoming change from the brutally...

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This is a tribute to my Uncle Tom.  He died from Covid 19 last week, even though he was healthy and strong.  He was my Dad's last surviving sibling, the baby of the...

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Walt and Melvin,
Were two little boys
Who were both bored
With their ordinary toys
Walt looked up to the table,
And said to Mel
"Do you think we will be able,
To make a new toy with that?"
"What's that?" said Mel,
Putting...

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When blossoms fall
From the tree of life
Their ash will feed its roots
And bloom away the strife 
These ambassadors of hearts and smiles 
And handshakes
These caretakers of souls 
Theses brothers and sisters 
And mothers and fathers
And...

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First there is something you need to know,
my friend is only just four feet four. 
 You should know this great man Martin,
don't say you don't cause he'll be startin'.
 He came to me and...

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Don’t denounce me when I weep
Soaking blows right, left and centre
From angled arrows that keep
Galumphing near my fort vying to enter

The crib the moon loathes
Which the venom sunshine can’t sear
While sadness bothers
To rain pain and...

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Melvin and JJ – you silly cats,
You always know how to make me laugh.
You run through the house like tornadoes with tails,
And tear up my furniture with your razor-sharp nails.

Melvin is the oldest, and like...

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I am not whole.
Half of me is gone now
and I don't know how
to live without her.
     I grieve for all the
happy times we shared.
For all the morning cups
of coffee she brewed,
for...

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Once again our nation…our world…is mired…in a sad and gloomy fog
as 11 more people have been massacred in a Pittsburgh synagogue…

11 innocent people praying one minute…the next ceasing to exist 
11 innocent people added to...

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Baby Melvin ; jubilation for you
We almost lost you
But we stopped mummy from killing you
Now mummy is happy to have you

When daddy left for good
Confusion and anger destroyed mummy
She did not know what to get...

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Hearts mangled by grief
Lost in separate mazes
Cooking a half-hearted meal
A turn of the head, a quick glance
Trembling hands reach out
Right hand in left, a gentle waltz
to sweet soul sounds on the radio
We danced in the...

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MIND MUSCLE

Steroid cocktails, metallic flavor, Viagra rush; 
Mind numbing mush!

Sightless vision, cloudy comprehension, silent violence, whimpering misogyny; a blood-curdling hush…

Nervous perspiration, brain freeze, lactic acid rush; Gray matter atrophy flush! Dissipating oxygen accompanied by synapses...

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Wesley Melvin Buchan, also known as Wesmechan,
 was a pusillanimous and a good-for-nothing,
 although some people consider him a charlatan,
this scoundrel's office runs like a three-ring

circus. Oddly enough, many his coworkers and
classmates fear him no...

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I walk these halls
As gallows mock
With framed pastels blind

Where mother left behind
And father said "freak"
You're no son of mine

Alone among the Rockwells
Lined-up of someone else's 
Many celebrated lives

I guess that's because
Mister Norman Bates
Really never learned...

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