Long Panhandle Poems
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June 12th 2017 Transition Revisited and Revised Today 4 2 2021
June 12th 2017 TRANSITION revisited and revised today 4/2/2021
While scrolling over outdated docs
(i.e. namely OpenOffice documents)
derrière seated upon hard backed chair,
yours truly came upon following poem
to share with anonymous readers,
whereby slight modifications
got made to...
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Categories:
panhandle, adventure, angel, anxiety, blessing, conflict, husband, july,
Form:
Rhyme
Doing absolute zero endeavors
Doing absolute zero endeavors
Earlier today March 28th, 2025
(thee hour now fifteen minutes
after eight o'clock at night, cuz
yours truly & wife paced back
and forth from one room to the
other wearing out rugged groovy
Tuesday (three day) experienced...
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Categories:
panhandle, absence, adventure, angel, angst, humorous, joy, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
Ashen faced Prometheus aghast at inferno gone awry
Ashen faced Prometheus aghast at inferno gone awry
Whether arsonist at fault
or confluence of ripe conditions
triggering perfect firestorm,
the titan of fire beside himself with misery,
though no fault of his own
the raging bullish conflagration
a taste of inescapable...
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Categories:
panhandle, cry, environment, fire, humorous, inspiration, lost, winter,
Form:
Free verse
Ha ha ha gotcha!
Ha...ha...ha... gotcha!
The imagined intimated response
linkedin to a swindler's
imagined thought bubble
silently spouting you ain't nothing
but a pluperfect sucker...
rendered penniless suffered
courtesy a financial blow
now left forced to eat crow
forfeiting every last red cent,
plus if applicable escrow
being analogous...
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Categories:
panhandle, absence, abuse, anger, angst, betrayal, bullying, depression,
Form:
Free verse
Chemo
Wake up and rush for the toilet and say my prayers
Stomach races trying to catch up to the bowels emptying anxious
Chemo the man said it takes a bit to get used to and I’ll...
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Categories:
panhandle, bible, eulogy,
Form:
Free verse
Overzealousness and Assiduousness
Overzealousness and assiduousness...
now propels yours truly towards restitution
courtesy sophisticated mountebank,
whose criminal mind
filched mine banknotes
rationed for when I exhibit decrepitude.
Cutthroat robber baron
re: newly minted vandal
an alumni matriculated
from school for scandal
a sheep in wolf's clothing
said culprit I...
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Categories:
panhandle, angel, anger, anxiety, appreciation, bereavement, best friend,
Form:
Rhyme
Texas Rainbows Flicker a Lilibonelle
North Richland Hills grew a rainbow I wanted to hold in my hand
Wand for wishing I don’t know what to reach-ask for?
Plethora is sunshine below the bow along your Texas land
Donned a different approach—your rainbow...
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Categories:
panhandle, faithinternet, rainbow,
Form:
Ekphrasis
A Man Is Born, Part I
I.
Luther Deits was a good friend of whiskey,
not fond of cutting herds or pushing plows,
a young buck full of juice, barely twenty,
he lived only for the thrill of the now.
His home, a town in the...
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Categories:
panhandle, change, character, growth, hope, men, people, truth,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Trying to REM ember the waking stage of an emotionally tormenting dream
The following account predicated on partial fact and a healthy dose of prevarication with an attendant overactive imagination.
Trying to REM ember the waking stage of an emotionally tormenting dream
One week later
still dog-tired after jarring telephone...
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Categories:
panhandle, anger, angst, anxiety, confusion, dream, grave, how
Form:
Rhyme
Maps a Buck: Free of Lugs
(*)v(*) (*)v(*) (*)v(*) (*)v(*) (*)v(*)
...
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Categories:
panhandle, appreciation, humorous, life, music, parody, song, word
Form:
Lyric
Armagh To Oklahoma - Song of My Soul
Ireland,
ancient song of my soul,
a haunting melody
that strains against the wind
and leaves me searching
for my distant pasts.
Monasterevin, Armagh, Inish Mor…
I hear your voices.
The breeze on your emerald grass
like a pennywhistle plays,
while...
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Categories:
panhandle, cowboy-western, history, inspirational, life, native american, places,
Form:
Verse
Obviously
OBVIOUSLY
Obviously, the people who lived contemporary with dinosaurs were intelligent,
and the footprints indicate that they were quite human as the large toe on
primates is located closer to the heel to facilitate clinging...
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Categories:
panhandle, funny, on work and working, science fiction,
Form:
Free verse
Mom's Malaise, Part One
The events that took place in a remote area of New Mexico about 230 miles south of Los Alamos during the predawn hours of July 16, 1945 forever changed the world. In the early morning...
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Categories:
panhandle, history, mothergirl, girl, july, morning,
Form:
Narrative
There Human To
Hes ing homeless, you see him there don't ignore that starved groak glare,
You can see that he's got an empty cup in his hand he looks hungry and you're now aware,
He has no shirt...
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Categories:
panhandle, addiction, angst, care, change, food, loneliness, sympathy,
Form:
Free verse
Rewritten Chemo, Puberty and the Fourth Watch
Chemo, Puberty & the Fourth Watch
by Patrick Cornwall
Wake up—rush for the toilet, say my prayers.
Stomach races, chasing bowels,
anxious like horses shot from a gate.
Chemo, the man said. Takes time to get used to. And I’ll...
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Categories:
panhandle, death, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
Tale of Three Pastors
There once lived three devoted and wonderful pastors,
who labored diligently to build and maintain three
great churches*.
One pastor served The First Church of The Holy Spirit
in the city of Aston, Tn. The second pastor...
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Categories:
panhandle, christian,
Form:
Verse
Allowed Him No Latitude
ALLOWED HIM NO LATITUDE
Andy, professional cartographer, adored his maps,
Valued them more than anything perhaps
As any cartographer would
As all cartographers should -
Lovingly drawing his Italy, ...
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Categories:
panhandle, funny, river,
Form:
Couplet
My Mother Thinks I'M a Doctor
My mother thinks I'm a doctor
I just don't have the guts
To tell her I spent all my college doe
On beer, wine, women and such
So after I faked my graduation
Said I was moving to the South
To...
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Categories:
panhandle, funny, humor,
Form:
Free verse
Texascowboyish's Bio
Spending a lifetime on the Texas Panhandle prairies in and around Amarillo
exposes a feller to a unique life style.
As a youngster and continuing into early manhood, I flirted with the aggregation
of words to...
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Categories:
panhandle, cowboy-westernwords, poetry, society,
Form:
Bio
They Call Me Busta Pheasant (
I started my career
As a person that removed wax from ears
It was down in the Texas Panhandle
I would use the wax to make candles
But then no one wanted their ears cleaned
The work was...
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Categories:
panhandle, funny, me, home, home, me, time,
Form:
ABC
Apache Junction
Poet: Ken Jordan
Story: Apache Junction
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: April/2014
Gonna take the 405 train
to Apache Junction.
Bought me a one-way ticket,
and I ain't look'n back.
When I get there, I'm gonna hike...
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Categories:
panhandle, leaving,
Form:
Prose
Dean'O O'Daniel
A small dinosaur named Dean'o O'Daniel
was a special one,
who grew up near the Florida panhandle
and the only son
To his single mother Sam O'Daniel
See Dean'o had a love
to where he could escape and drift away
to another...
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Categories:
panhandle, adventure, angst, dad, growing up, life, love,
Form:
Lyric
This Land Was Your Land
This Land Was Your Land (Cherokee Version of Woody Guthrie's This Land is Your Land)
This land was your land and now it's my land.
From the Georgia mainland to the Oklahoma prairies.
From the Appalachian Mountains to...
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Categories:
panhandle, america, death, history, native american,
Form:
Lyric
I Wandered Lonely As a Puppet Thru Reno
"I wandered lonely as a cloud"
William Wordsworth.
I wandered lonely as a puppet thru Reno
Like a weathered kite...
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Categories:
panhandle, lonely, poverty,
Form:
Rhyme
Fool's Goad
Little lemmings,
beware of the Yukon yodel
Don’t ear swallow the Arctic shiny yellow
Fake eureka disclosure: It’s jingle hollow
So, enamel blowflake please,
place not your panhandle hope
in Ivory Boast fool’s goad
I, ebony breath beg of thee,
be not glutton...
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Categories:
panhandle, allusion, muse, wisdom, word play,
Form:
Rhyme