Long Preakness Poems

I over heard Momma Bear telling Papa Bear to get a better job,
You remember him from the Goldilocks fame, yessiree-bob.
Our Trolls in Mayham Falls, in the quest, he came across,
And in my experience this could...

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The Great Race   June 6,2015

Dress is unimportant.
At least today.
I can arrive at the local bar and grill 
in old gardening jeans and t-shirt.

We'll order a mid-afternoon sandwich.
But the main reason is not to...

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The Twelve-Step Process


I overheard Momma Bear telling Papa Bear to get a better job,
You remember him from the Goldilocks fame, yessiree-bob.
Our Trolls in Mayham Falls, in the quest, he came across,
And in my experience this...

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When we got together 
spent a lil time together
the way you kissed me
I knew our relationship 
was suppose to get better
but when you told me 
you took another man number
I thought... I was the one...

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Book Of Job
Chapter 39
Verse 19-21,24

19.  Do you give the horse its strength or clothe its neck with a flowing mane?
20.  Do you make it leap like a locust, striking terror with its proud...

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'Twas pouring, and the thoroughbreds
Did gallop and thunder in the rain.
All muddy were the jockeys' silks,
And the weather quite insane.

"Beware the Kentucky Derby, Son!
Fame and fortune the trainers haunt.
Beware the length of the Preakness run,...

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At the Preakness, horses race;
The crowd is quite excited.
After winners are declared,
Observers are invited

To witness a tradition
Which, since nineteen hundred nine
Has been special to all racing fans
And cool in its design.

See, atop the Members’ Clubhouse,
A...

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SNOW IN SPRING

the cherry blossoms in preakness pink,
         a swaff of butterflies,
      gliding in otherworldly space,
fluttering like snow in Spring.

Cherry Lane in...

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California Chrome’s bid for a triple crown was a no-go.
He didn’t win, he didn’t place.  He didn’t even show.
The owners of the horse were hoping to pop the cork
at the Belmont Raceway in New...

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Am I glad to be alive?
Surely I am,
Surely.

I watched a certain horse cross the line at the Derby,
Preakness,
Belmont,
And I was quite happy to live to see it once more,
To live to cheer.

I watched the reports...

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It’s the second jewel of the big racing crown.
The race takes place every May in Baltimore town.
Horses in the Kentucky Derby will have another go
at a racetrack everybody knows as “Pimlico”.
Here’s another chance for horses...

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I’m sitting here with quite a grin
‘Cause I don’t have the discipline
To try to put another spin
On boasting of my first place win.

I know that judging is subjective
And I’m often quite reflective
When my poems are...

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Tonight they held the Belmont Stakes
And California Chrome
Was thought to be the one to bring
A triple trophy home.

He'd won the Derby, Preakness, too
And he was in contention
To win the Triple Crown at last - 
That...

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