Long Nerves of steel Poems

There once was a nation that was like a beautiful tall sailing ship
It’s mast were like redwood trees lined up in a forest
They bore the stainless white sails of opportunity to catch the winds of...

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Overslept
     by Amy Swanson   11/2008

A little something to make you laugh ;)



Alarm clock didn't ring this morning;
Overslept - and now I'm late!
(but I would have stayed in bed,
had I...

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There is a story ‘bout Casey, that is but incomplete
It tells of simple ball and bat and Mighty’s ignoble feat
There we learned of failure and the storied Mudville name
Here we’ll learn what happened in the...

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Into the buoyant blue of a summer sky
I throw my fortune and my hopes.
With wings and wonder I survey
the world above and need some time
up there before descending back to earth.

Advancing throttle up I climb,...

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BLIND INJUSTICE

I know that’s what she wants me to be
But that’s just not me
As I stood on an oak floored alter
All of my friends certain I would faultier 
But no one should ever fault her...

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There is a place inside my head
Where thoughts of other worlds will tread
When I awaken from a dream
Standing alongside a purple stream
With a lime green cast upon the skies
And a twinkling glimmer in my eyes
Moons...

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Yogi. Arts
Aesthetics

There were
 Times such
  Disciplined
  One trained 
  Disciples to
 Ever Desist
Temptation 
Gold & Girl
Lust & Love
Men trained
To overcome
 Carnal quests
  A sensuous body
   Is but a leather...

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I just can’t distinguish between 
the nerves of steel you clasp onto, 
or the weakness in momentary 
           corrosion I hold dearly. 
I perceive you...

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Hope


Sometimes it takes just one to help another
Then at times, a whole village can help someone's sister or brother
Believe that no one is better than,
And that it is always important to lend a hand

At the...

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In school there was this guy named Terry and he was always getting body art
Everybody was talking about it and jealous and wanted to look like his body parts
they said "Isn't he cool, watch the...

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February 4th, 1999 - two hundred
and fifty two months ago
Shana Aubrey Harris officially completed,
now ranks among status quo
lawfully, legally, legitimately in toto
twenty one orbitz around the sun - whoa!

Chronological benchmark ye did attain
plus major purchase...

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Some chances, come once in a lifetime
It is important to seize the day
If you don't you'll be filled with regret
As you watch goodfortune go away

Yes it's true, hindsights twenty twenty
If only you had taken that...

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On a horse at the crossroads a pistol in his hand
Dressed in dark clothing he looked fine and grand
Waiting in the moonlight for the York coach to appear
With cool nerves of steel; he showed no...

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The Bull (El Toro) of Wall Street

With nostrils aflare snorting hot air,
El Toro charges the markets.
Where capitalist investors
Feud with socialist harbingers,
Who are taking money from wealth creators,
To distribute to others for political power.

El Toro barrels...

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Guilty pleasures
has you on a Siberian Ferris wheel,
spinning rapidly
Gulag suicidal libido
urges you to cock the trigger and squeeze
Keep repeating the nightmare:
Six torture chambers
Six gas chambers
Six motel rooms
with five vacancies
It's your last chance to exit
this cursed...

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God's life with us will always be unending,
Even though much about world is offending;
For His sake,
Me in will take;
Son to save from sin soon again is sending.

We have a priest who insists on incense;
Always will...

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I’m a fool, hiding in the caverns of your skin
This love’s diary now lost, written in the inks of sin
Since you left me, there’s no way back 
My nerves of steel have begun to crack...

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She took my hand and kissed me;
I said, “No acting necessary,”
So we took off into the night
Nothing to guide us but the moonlight

She slapped and screamed at me;
“Did you ever love me?!”
I turned to her...

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Into the street he sauntered one day
Might be his last, no one could say.

Wore a sassy Stetson, chaps and spurs
ring-jingly things, with raucous burrs.

A silvered six gun pressed his hip
a tiny tremble dressed his lip.

Tough...

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Have fun playing baseball, hint number one
finish the season though you’ve never won.
Can’t win if you don’t play, work on point two
find the skills you need, then practice them too.

The count’s at three, try to...

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I have a lighter in my back pocket
Right next to your picture in a heart shaped locket

As I watch the circled rings of smoke filter the air
I stared into your eyes and wonder if that...

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I stumble from the cab of this ole truck,
To the sleeper where I lay.
My eyes close,I drift off to dream land,
And I awake to a sunny day.

I smell leather as its cent kisses the air,
I...

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It felt so good to see your face,
 With you came a little peace in this chaotic place.
 
    Your silent yet your presence is noticed by all,
 As you approach me...

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Welcome to 5th floor burn unit,
UCSD Medical Center.
   This is the sign you pass,
As you enter.

   They ask what happened,
How did you get burned?
   They do this all with...

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