Long Publishing company Poems

The greatest performance of my life.  
Howard’s proud piece de resistance award  on Poetry Nook for my magnum opus “Rush Amid The Rapids” in their daily member section.
After endless hours of toil, tribulation,...

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L'Overture


Lest we forget
Words often mouthed
For the dead of bloody war
Forgot not those great ones
Whose battles were on the home front
Seeking only equality of voice

Ray Charles to you was a singer
Backwards and long ago he was...

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Haunting night for writer's block decided to 
explore my writing endeavors awakened always 
at three am feeling overwhelmed from another night 
filled with words dancing about inside my head to put 
to pages immediately before...

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I had such a beautiful day
The greatest blessing that I could have hoped for, came true
You guys remember awhile back
I was talking about people I had lost
But never should have
How ashamed I was over it...

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OF THE COMMON SEAS
  "We must come down from our heights, and leave our straight paths, for the byways and low places of life, if we would learn truths by strong contrasts; and in...

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My wife was on a diet. I told her that if she didn't lose 30 pounds this year: that we were through. She bought thrity pounds ofdehyrated chicken and tuna, and said Thrity pounds of...

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In one urban area in the Midwest, there lived a young, beautiful lady named A.   She wanted to get married so young because she dreamed of having a dozen children.

  One day,...

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using consistency as the motivating factor
position
of being her lover to him
it disappointed someone else
some who thought one way
only to have been faced with something
completely different
yet with opportunity we are faced with
what exsist from her want...

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A moment in time
As I walked into the hall were the presentation was being held, I said good afternoon everyone.
While walking to my seat a stranger caught my eye, it was a spiritual moment in...

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NEVER SHAME A WOMAN
SHE'LL OUT DO YOU
AND FIND PEOPLE WHO'LL
DO THE SAME
MAKE A MESS OF YOUR LIFE BY PLAYING
SILLY LITTLE GAMES
MAKE YOU TO BELEIVE
THINK ABOUT WHAT SHE SAY'S
LIE AFTER LIE
YOU'LL NEVER KNOW WHO'S
IN HER BED
SHE'LL...

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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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I wipe the sweat from my brow
waiting
   hoping
      praying.
I made my submission four weeks passed,
it took even longer to write my piece, 
3 months to be exact.
As I...

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Now first things first

Right a out a manuscript
(Well duh!)

Next...

Prepare it exactly how you want it
(Like I'm going to prepare it any different)

After that...

Have somebody eDiT your storu
(Yeah because I want to have mistakes in it)

Then...

Find...

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Sweet...

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most memories speak to the happenings of it's time
they make you try to understand what's going
through the minds of those who are stars
in the role, the story teller
wishes them to be.
the somber sounds of thinking
to...

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how the hummingbird
loves the flower
the way you love me

This small haiku was dedicated to my son Rob Poulin and his family for their love, and my son's collecting some of my poems and creating a...

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