Long North dakota Poems

Many of us have a favorite possession from when we were young, and this 
93-year old gentleman is no exception.

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Beware The Ides of March 2023
 
Ides simply referred to first new moon, 
which usually fell between 
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.

The following events all occurred
fifteenth of March 
across span of millenniums.

One:...

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          Johnny and Amber

To get my mind off war and inflation
I’ve watched the trial for defamation.
  But from what I’ve heard
  that scorned Amber...

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I want to go to Idaho
I bet you never knew
And Wyoming… and Hawaii…
Oh, and North Dakota too!!
I’ve been to all the other ones
For once there was a time
When I would tease the pull of Earth
And...

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Ides simply referred to first new moon, 
which usually fell between 
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.

Smithsonian Magazine history buff
Tom A. Frail
posted March 4, 2010 issue
url = https://www.smithsonianmag.com/
history/top-ten-reasons-to-beware-
the-ides-of-march-8664107/
top ten reasons to 
beware the...

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Technology is wonderful, especially in medicine, Elmo told Opal, the day their son Brett called to tell them the good news. The doctor had told Brett and Debbie their first child would be a boy,...

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Red power mode
White digital
Blue logo

My, oh my ...
sweet apple pie!
Patriotic American cheese is turning sour Kraut commie
Democracy is Wisconsin curdling ... penicillin shot
needed between the ailing ballot box,
sho’ ain’t Louisiana Purchase forthcoming

Lady Liberty is bowing...

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I have traveled the world over but like the United States best
From Maine to California, north and south, east, and west.
Born in West Virginia, I live in the Commonwealth of Kentucky
Have visited Vermont, New Hampshire...

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I didn’t know the doctor.
I don’t know how I chose him.
Perhaps my landlady had recommended him
or maybe I simply picked him 
from the yellow pages.
I was two thousand miles away
from my mother or any relative...

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El Presidente don’t Tennessee 
nothing bad coming,
tho’ the global orbitals
saw viral things very differently

Happy talk tongue taters
do eerily 
Idaho ear mash liquor please

Delaware drunk on denial,
so Iowa unaware
that the body litmus test
is gonna crimson cost...

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"Vision Zero" -- no more deaths from highway accidents. The idea was born in Sweden, where it's had spectacular success in reducing traffic fatalities. Now zeroing out all traffic fatalities must become an explicit U.S....

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WE HAVE ALL SEEN THE DISNEY FILM, TOMORROWLAND,

STARRING, GEORGE CLOONEY.

IT IS A GREAT FILM THAT DEPICTS THE HOPEFUL AND FUTURISTIC

VERSION OF HUMANITY REACHING FOR THE STARS AND BEYOND.

TODAY, IT IS EASY TO GET DISCOURAGED WHEN...

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PART THE THIRD
The battle is won, 
but the war is far from over.
Still the requirements aren’t met, 
and still the fulfillment of inner peace lies motionless in a Chicago gutter.
But the rudiments and metaphysical concepts...

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A poem about me?  Seriously?
That makes me laugh deliriously.
To think that I could ever be
A poem's subject, tickles me.
But if you were to Google my name,
You'd find I have some claim to fame.
This electronic...

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It was mid-October, several years ago
In some little town in South Dakota, can't remember the name
An hour before sun down, still some day light
I was filling the truck with fuel, getting ready to go
All of...

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A child who has been raised with love,
Will recognize the touch.
There will be no confusing her when
She's approached by another kind.

I was one of those lucky children
Reared in a loving home.
My parents and four big...

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I think I'll die before I live
from time to time, I suppose
life seems more take than give
a cynical opinion sometimes shows

Michael, Gabriel or Azrael may
come to bring me my pink slip
and leave my future in...

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We met at our ministers cottage,
Became friends and conversationalists.

The cottage was very scenic,
A beautiful glass structure, furnished and comfortable.

They had a beautiful bench outside where you could sit,
I met a handsome friend there.

We had a...

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Cletus considered himself an expert angler, handy with reel and rod.
He'd landed ever'thing from wily rainbow trout to North Atlantic cod.
He'd fished the streams, rivers and lakes from sea to shinin' sea,
But he met his...

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Peace or Problems

Do we want peace or just more problems?  Whatever shall it be?
We will always have our differences, that is a strength for all to see.

There are countries in this world, where freedom...

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We are in North Dakota, on Highway 94, and we spy Salem Sue
She is standing thirty-eight foot tall, and the sky is relatively blue.
We are thrilled to see her, standing there, in her dairy cow...

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LAST CALL FOR MINNIESOTA 

Looking down at his toes clogged with the redden dust of the ground
His open sandals had seen better days, sandals that had been around

He, himself had seen better days, but all...

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The weather man on the local radio station had forecast a blizzard.
It was Saturday. Many folks were out shopping on this beautiful sunny day, 
one that sometimes comes in March on the North Dakota prairies.
We...

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Mama was just saying, " I guess 
the forecaster was wrong",
when the storm struck.
It came from a clear blue sky.
The sun had shone on one
of those false spring days
that sometimes come in March,
on the North...

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The little two-room schoolhouse
On the North Dakota plains
Was the source of education
And of smaller joys and pains.

In the North Dakota winters
We spent recesses inside.
And sometimes in the basement
For a game of seek and hide.

So much...

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