Long Potomac Poems
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Federal Probe alerts all aboard greatlakes navy base
The probe alerts for federal
employees identification machines
data including finger printing
system use for fraudulent
access to aviation government
buildings documents and data
to allow domestic terrorists access
identication machines still not
located be vigil when...
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Categories:
potomac, allah,
Form:
Naat
Three-Fifth Stooges Quartet
Moe
Larry
Curly
Shep
Joe
This Three-Fifth Stooges moron quartet
are brain-slow slugs you don’t wanna IQ know
Just sitting on a milk crate,
waiting outside of the MGM studio gate
Moe, Larry and Curly passed my way
They were yukking it up,
talking clown...
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Categories:
potomac, fun, humor, parody, political, satire,
Form:
Light Verse
Jacket and Ties
Summer is lingering on and autumn is secretly chiming in
wild marigolds are blooming everywhere
and the earth is soaking up my sordid tears
The full moon is watching over me and predicting my destiny
Bright...
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Categories:
potomac, adventure, anxiety, betrayal, break up, butterfly, encouraging,
Form:
Narrative
Song To the Ruins of America
SONG TO THE RUINS OF AMERICA
With the Glyn Ford’ eyes:
"Fascist Europe-The Rise of Racism and Xenophobia"
I see with horror how from an american country to another
Racism and Xenophobia are cultivated in ist fields
Inspecting the growth...
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Categories:
potomac, america,
Form:
Ballad
George Washington An Old Fuddy-Duddy
George Washington an Old Fuddy-Duddy?
By Elton Camp
What image of Washington comes to mind?
In with your money is the one you will find
Right there George is, on the one-dollar bill
And looking humorless, old and extremely ill
No...
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Categories:
potomac, historyold, image, old,
Form:
Rhyme
She is a River
“Women can change better’n a man,” Ma said soothingly. “Woman got all her life in her arms. Man got it all in his head.”
“Man, he lives in jerks-baby born an’ a man dies, an’ that’s...
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Categories:
potomac, allegory, america, freedom, humanity, leadership, life, world,
Form:
Verse
Blessed and Highly Favored
I was blessed to have born in the good old USA and adopted at age thirteen.
Blessed to have been brought up in a beautiful small town surrounded by great mountains, and grass of the color...
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Categories:
potomac, appreciation, blessing, encouraging, heaven, love, magic, uplifting,
Form:
Rhyme
Musings of Presidents Washington and Lincoln
Presidents Washington and Lincoln met often in that Land of Eternal Bliss,
To commiserate, communicate and about the misty past to reminisce.
"What in hell (er, excuse me, Lord!) is happening, Abe, to our beloved nation?"
"Well, George,...
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Categories:
potomac, funny, political
Form:
Rhyme
On the Banks of the Potomac
We were accustomed to being in the military living in the
barracks, having inspections and following the rules.
Yet, at summer's zenith, my sweetheart and I and our two
friends left behind the Ft. Myer base in Arlington,...
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Categories:
potomac, 8th grade, 9th grade, bereavement, death, military,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A Rose By Any Other
What's in a name, you say
Is a rose still a rose by any other
And isn't 'Mom' a lot more loving
Than calling her 'Mother'
A name is an occupation, a means to...
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Categories:
potomac, identity, meaningful, people, words,
Form:
Rhyme
Welcome To Virginia
Between Blue Ridge Mountains and Chesapeake Bay
Almost eight and a half million people here do sashay,
One of the original colonies, back in the settlers’ day,
Part of the American Revolution, Virginia was, in a big way.
Pony...
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Categories:
potomac, travel,
Form:
Monorhyme
Rolling Pontiac
Roll on, Potomac, roll on
Roll on, Potomac, roll on,
Your banks cradle history, where legends are drawn.
From the heart of the nation, our dreams have been sown,
So roll on, Potomac, roll on.
In the shadow of monuments,...
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Categories:
potomac, america, beautiful, business, celebration, community, growth, proposal,
Form:
Rhyme
A Tale of the Two Kilmarnock's
Kilmarnock is two places split by Atlantic
one in Virginia other in Ayrshire
they are of different character straits
all bringing their own dimensions higher
The Virginia brand settled way back in early 1600s
originally known as ‘the Crossroads’...
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Categories:
potomac, america, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Love My Own Medicine: God Loves Me
Does God make slightly reject people?
We may think so, but He never did
Quite apart from Mephibosheth, lame prince, son of Jonathan,
In hiding when Saul died (the nurse hid baby Mephibosheth from King David)
Who merely...
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Categories:
potomac, allegory, appreciation, flower, giving, jesus, life, spiritual,
Form:
Didactic
Night of Tragedy
The incentive to write the following verses came from my thoughts
at the moment the 'president' addressed the country about the
tragedy that took place over DC.
The night many witnessed a collision over Washington, DC
A...
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Categories:
potomac, how i feel,
Form:
Rhyme
Where Has My Father Gone
I was 9 years old and I didn't know where my father was?
One day he was here, then a man on a white horse came up to our house.
That night, my Father said to my...
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Categories:
potomac, bereavement, family, father, war,
Form:
Free verse
Blessed and Highly Favored
I was blessed to have been adopted at age thirteen.
When hunting after a torrential rain I slipped into the Potomac river and by holding onto my pellet gun, when it slapped the mud, the...
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Categories:
potomac, 9th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Burroughs' Virus
In crowds bigly
And comparatively small
The Barker
Shot poisoned grammar arrows
At apple pie heads
Crowds roared with baked smiles
At milestones tossed
Across potomac alters
The Barker
Injected his virus
With mucus spray; tanned
With ease, aimed...
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Categories:
potomac, hero,
Form:
I do not know?
Unspoken Truths
Towers stabbing tall into the sky,
Broadway plays that catch the eye,
finance’s center, here it lies…
Manhattan is a city that works
(but it’s filled with loud, self-important jerks).
Sun-bathed coat and silver screens,
glitz and glamour and action scenes,
the...
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Categories:
potomac, city, culture, how i feel, image, judgement,
Form:
Rhyme
Pangie Went To Washington, Dcc
That great river, the Potomac.
Means so very much to me.
In our nation's capitol,it's full
of American history and glory!
As a teen, our high school
visited that famous city in
this great American nation.
Such an excited class...
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Categories:
potomac, beautiful, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
You Know Who We Are
You know who we are.
We're with you everyday,
We're from the ghettos, the project buildings
the neighborhoods with low incomes
You know who we are
We're considered in society as the minority,
yet we're the majority...
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Categories:
potomac, black african american, high school,
Form:
Verse
Dc
DC
On the banks of the Potomac
Where the cherry blossoms grow
Stands our nation's capital
With monuments all in a row
The laws that make us a great nation
Are decided in its halls
The names of those who died for...
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Categories:
potomac, history
Form:
Rhyme
Spring On the Potomac
With apologies to Robby Burns and Sweet Afton - in celebration of Spring, and the return of our Bald Eagle family to their Great Falls home on the bonnie banks O’Burn Potomac:
Oh to be in...
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Categories:
potomac, bird, inspirational, political, river, spring,
Form:
Ballad
A Dream
A DREAM
By David F. Henrie
Last night I dreamed, but not of Manderlay.
It was instead of the Oak Ridge Cemetery, in Springfield,
where death somehow evokes life.
The moon bathed everything with silver.
It was easy to...
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Categories:
potomac, america,
Form:
Narrative
Creek Song
The creek meanders down from Pennsilvani-ay
Caresses Sharpsburg as it goes.
To give its water to Potomac as it flows.
And so, the river knows
What happens on the land above each day.
But something terrible is happening this...
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Categories:
potomac, river, war,
Form:
Ballad