Long Nough Poems

 ~ I - I Arrive in Glasgow ~

When I arrived in Glasgow town
I knew nary a soul
So tired I's nearly fallin' down
Yet I'd no place to go 

I wandered up Buchanan street 
In hopes...

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Chorus 1:

Damn girl,
If you need some grease,
Why can't you just
Squeak a little,
Squeak a little? (1)

Take time,
Let the voices cease,
Your life adjust,
Breathe a little,
Breathe a little! 



Squeaky wheel will always get the grease they say,
Never has...

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"I ain't gonna be nothing, 
Cos it seem like f'ever I've been longing."
Tears in the eyes, phlegm in the nose,
Skin so sore, malady of the toes. 
Helter-skelter, yet, nothing to show for, 
Studied chemistry and...

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Muddy Water's Gramma gave us licorice

I walked the old Kenwood neighborhood with my twin little brother and sister in tow,
'hold there hands and look both ways before you cross the street'
No use trying to talk...

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Aint Throwin my'self off no bridges
God made the Ocean for the fish

And at the risk of soundin' religious
Suicide wont be gettin' his wish

Sister Mercer, sister Bailey,
Sing me through this

 'Nough Blues in my suitcase
To make...

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When strollin' by the ol' saloon,
on chairs they kept outside,
I spied a dried up, lonsome sort
folks walked by, but eyed.

He had a faithful doggie
with head laid on his knee.
The ol' man stroked him softly, 
kind,...

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An ol’ cowboy once told me,
“Son, keep yor’ Saddle straight—
cinched up tight ‘n squared away,
an’ don’t depend on fate.

For if yor’ a straight shooter,
yor’ life will be real tame.
A handshake will be good ‘nough
ta trust...

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Iambic Heptameter Couplets (fourteen syllables--seven unstressed--seven stressed)
scansion of first line:

a/LIT/tle/TA/ken/IN/the/MID/dle/'TILL/you/HAVE/e/NOUGH
unstressed syllables: a/tle/ken/the/dle/you/e - seven unstressed syllables
STRESSED SYLLABLES: LIT/TA/IN/MID/TILL/HAVE/NOUGH - SEVEN STRESSED SYLLABLES


AND FREE'S YOUR ROBOT MIND (little wisdoms)

A little taken in the middle 'till you...

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UNTIE WITH TITHE IF TIGHT

Descend from your boulder of woe
into the vineyard where great men sow;
here is my escape wonder park,
inscribed: Givers Never Lack;
betwixt the valley of indecision & greed
whether to eat or sow the...

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She quietly told him
you like me :but I
 don't like you
I aint shame that's
how I feel about you
play around, you gonna learn
your lesson
people like me
like teaching lessons
that'll learn em
ole folk say
you grin and smile
you know...

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The day was brilliant--Sol spreading diamonds in the sky-- 
When Kathleen and her father faced the slope, 
He with trepidation, she with hope.

They scanned the rise and watched like country rubes
As sliders paused atop the...

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With no specific tone or direction.
And , than suddenly: Whoomp! the tone began to change
it devloped into a"whoomping groove" 
it's beleived to dereive from Pickett
the lyrics said
early one morning I ran out and hollered
my voice...

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When he first came around,
 nothing touched the ground.

Now seventeen years later,
 my husband is one hundred
pounds fatter.

 I never dreamed it would
end like this,
 in the beginning all i saw
was pure bliss.

 These days...

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Let your remaining joy locate you now without any further delay,
Even if more success and more prosperity have to join in a fast relay,
The goal is that all the best things of life should find...

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Happy birthday baby and my first born
Created by God for me to adorn
From the top of your head down to your tiny little toes
You were cute as a button as everyone knows
Seeing you all grown...

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.
                    when the glint
            ...

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when this poem title
is used with "she 
received her..."

it is a
negative
but i'm not

writing about
comeuppance but
about her sweetness

so should she be
a pie or cake or
something

other to call her
yet a pastry all 
the same

now i must admit
that...

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Equus Ferus caballus bovinium
awing the Browsband, he sat upon the latigo Keeper
relevant scales
an occurance of a dynamic conjunction
the rhizosphere
in Gilib. He said!
sativa fabaceae and
Tataricicum
Fagopu esculentum
disentangle rhizosheric
those processes
Adda Aiia O' badia Obadiah!
he grinds the wheat to...

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~MY FOUNTAIN OF TRUTH~


IT IS TRULY AMAZING,HOW SIMPLE GESTURES HEAL...
WITH HUMILITY N' COMPASSION,'VEN TH' HARDEST SHELLS CAN CRUMBLE
BRIDGES OF HOPE ENFLAMED,COOL FROM PRIDE'S IGNITIONS
TRAUM'D SHADOWS OF PAST BETRAYALS,VANISH WITH BEACONIC EMBRACES

EACH N' EVERY ONE OF...

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My heart bleeds,
No blood's seen,
Everyone there flees,
Except a teen.
Tho' she said no!
My pain is inside,
Nobody knows,
Where it resides.
My tear drops,
She minds not,
Another love flops,
Am I going nuts?
She pitied me,
But without love,
Her heart's mean,
The shame's 'nough!
She...

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angels are sprawled 
in the longest reach my children could snow-afford on my former green lawn
over-played carols over-play the car ride to the store, where they will continue 
an embarrassment of lights dangle ‘side a...

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angels are sprawled 
in the longest reach my children could snow-afford on my former green lawn
over-played carols over-play the car ride to the store, where they will continue 
an embarrassment of lights dangle ‘side a...

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SPENT ALL NIGHT THINKING
WRITING
TRYING TO FIND
WORDS TO GO 
TOGETHER
SOME WERE CUTE
SOME WERE CLEVER
BUT THEY DIDN'T MAKE ME FEEL
THEIR INSPIRATION
IT CAUSES ME TO WONDER
THINK BEYOND THE EDGES
LIKE GOING OFF TOPIC
WHAT I'M I TO DO
WHAT WILL THE...

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CLEAR TO ME
SHE LIKE THE WAY 
YOU DO YO' THANG
DIRTY GRITTY
SUMTHING LIKE
DITTY-DOO WHOOP
MAKE ME SING
LIKE AH SO-PIN SIP- ME
GIRL CAN I HAVE
SOMETHING
TO SAY
MAKE ME TALK BOUT YOU
SOUNDS REAL SILLY
DOO-WHOOP-DITTY
KINDA THANG
WE TALKIN LOVE
AND AIN'T SHAME BOUT...

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I long learnt right I was. Naked nudges
In my candid heart proved to lack proofs ‘nough.
To show what my soul and ears couldn’t ignore,
Went I all lengths. A futile future it forged.

I was then forced...

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