Long New york state Poems

The Amistad Mutiny

Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade.
To be tossed in chains below deck on the Portuguese ship Tecora,2
Sailing the Atlantic Middle...

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Matthew delivers his latest bullet – tin...

from the Harris-Walz front
where liberal minded socially progressive
electorate doth agonizingly grunt
targeted in crosshairs scoped out 
eager and ready to be mortally wounded 
courtesy notorious big headed 
(and bigoted) infamous...

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It is time for the game 
With the team the world knows the name 
This year New York State was invited to the feast
When the Bills were chosen as the sacrifice for the statement of...

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When Dena and her girlfriend sneaked out of their houses at night, they both
would go and meet boys that they met during the daytime and they were their
boyfriends.  One day Dena was writing her...

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If the people of the state of Georgia are smart, they will elect their republican candidate for senator against the democratic one. It will succeed in a 50/50 evenly divided senate and it will take...

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Yeah, I know,
It's "My Problem"...
No sweat to you...
Even though I might beg,
For help or advise what to do...

I'm cut off from the internet...
My last human link...
With my good poet friends,
Guess I'll just mix a drink...

Kind'a...

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HE READ WHAT WOULD BE CALLED THE 
"ROLL CALL OF CHAMPIONS"
THE COMPANY NAMES THAT COMPRISE
THE TALUS, AND THE SANCTIONING BODIES
THAT RECOGNIZED THE TALUS CHAMPION AS
THE PREMIER CHAMPION IN WRESTLING
THE PRESTIGE OF HOLDING THE MOST
PRESIGESES PRIZE...

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COOKING WITH JIM                      

actually, with him in spirit, in the kitchen 
of his quaint...

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Dying Is Horrifying

Has been sad to me;
Dying is horrifying;
Will never forget.

My wife Jill is in intensive care right now
under sedation. Sunday morning she had
shortness of breath. An aide car came out 
and gave her oxygen...

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My Childhood Home


My lovely childhood home, I miss it so...
built Eighteen Eighty-Six, so long ago.

Three floors, all rooms with mantled fireplaces; 
carved woodwork, archways, spindled winding stair;
cathedral ceilings, sparkling chandelier
in dining room enjoyed on holidays.
Third...

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unsure if this epistle (possibly 
coming across as all mixed up)
like some mish mashed verse
ye might arrange and rearrange into a song
living social in the country of upstate New York state
epitomizing spartan holistic existence
somewhere over...

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Students everywhere feel a close relationship with summer. It develops early and you never lose it. It’s durable.

Le’ts  poeticize..
It was a youthful summer of unblemished mirth.
In play, our youthful hours were freely spent.
We bore...

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The Beauty in a Kiss

A Kiss can be as beautiful, as grand a course
for making passionate love – and more – then that of intercourse.
A Kiss can stimulate the spiritual !
A Kiss can stimulate the...

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I work with the dogs in the dirt .Sun up, sun down and man do I hurt due to 
working with the dogs in the dirt. Will  there ever be a break for me?I'm...

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Hillary Clinton


Mrs. Clinton, First Lady, became
well-known fem of political fame;
   special policies made
   and with Whitewater, played
that long, fact-finding, criminal game.

Later she became Senator, won
New York State in two-thousand and one.
...

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THE INTERVIEW AND THE TROOPER

I was on my way to apply for a job,
My interview was for 2PM that day,
I wasn’t dressed for the occasion yet,
So I pulled onto the shoulder of the parkway.

My suit...

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Jumping over many a Social Security gate,
For the mighty and generous New York State,
So by now, my knees are shot,
And their help, of course, I see not
So my dire circumstances grow hot,
Cause needed medicines I...

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Dear diary, I write these words, so sad and true,
     and etch my heartfelt thoughts forever in this book.
Now, with a broken heart, I share my pain with you.

My childhood home,...

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Fourth Floor of nowhere- had a back room where
I spent some secret time, in younger days;
a huge- yet empty space above the stair
that led me to a new-dimension phase.

Though built late eighteen-eighties, it was home
in...

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Lately, the weather has dropped drastically,
and Fall holds up serenely and beautifully;
green trees so stately gently fluctuate 
against a sky of transparent blue as hummingbirds make plans to migrate,
but the downy woodpeckers interrupt their chat
with...

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New York state is paying 20 cents for gloves that normally cost less than five cents, $7.50 for masks that normally go for 50 cents, $2,795 for infusion pumps that normally cost half that, $248,841...

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September eleven, two-thousand-one-
dark age of homeland terror had begun.
If only I could change this horrid past-
alleviate deep pain from grief at last.

Three thousand souls were lost forever, then;
three hundred forty-three were brave firemen,
so many whom...

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Final Thoughts

Why is it ?, you choose to avoid what tomorrow brings.
Can it be  because of your tale ?, - in sorrow, it sings
a melancholy song of past pain, pain you want not again...

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I turned around...should not have looked;
   they all were there and set to go.
The time was set, the day was booked;
   today would be the final show.

A tear came flowing down...

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                        Something is missing from our winter days
    ...

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