Long Pull in Poems

REGGIE WHITE SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS AT UNIVERSITY MALL THE DAY YJAY TOWNSEND JOHNSON HENRY PLOTTED TO HAVE ME MURDERED OVER MY POETRY THE KILLERS LAY AWAITING FOR ANDREWS TAHOE TO PULL IN THEY PARKED IN FRONT...

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There is a rhythm that is moving around the globe, and you have to catch on to it before you grow old, it is moving at a very fast pace and if you don’t catch...

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I will eviscerate you with wit 
            and promise to make it uncomfortable to sit... 
        ...

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I can’t speak for other men but as I grow older I have found listening to my wife makes life easier. 

So when she said we should move to a retirement community while we’re still...

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Paris then was a place
Where new ideas were
Brewing in the intellectual 
And art communities
And new ones were
Emerging everyday
Some brilliant some not 
Time will make it clear 
What is what
But then it was an exciting
Paris of...

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The lead thug burst forth, swinging at Max,
catching him with a fist just under the eye,
Max pitched backwards, fell to the floor,
off-balanced, he slammed hard on his side.
The thug roared,”How do you like that, prick!
I...

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Cinderella

He takes my hand pleasantly in his and says meeting me is his pleasure. 

My joy escapes its hiding place in no uncertain measure.

This is when life begins to demonstrate just one true treasure.

His blue...

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Wheels turning, churning, fighting for a grip
mud oozing, clinging, sucking  for purchase
rivers flooding their banks, water everywhere
trucks fighting trying to get through and deliver 
their precious cargos that are desperately awaited
sometimes gasoline or much...

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Democracy 
  
  The votes have been tallied and the race has been called.   So why do I feel like Americans are about to fall?
  I close my eyes and...

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You keep me at arm’s length
Afraid to draw me closer
Afraid to let me go
You want me close enough to see
But not close enough to hold
Close enough to warm you
But not close enough to burn

You want...

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‘Twas the night before Christmas
As I was getting ready for my hot date
Putting on sexy lace, hoping he’s not late
Hanging mistletoe and smiling as I wait

I hear his car pull in, he’s now at my...

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I had 800 hits on my site just last Friday
But twenty-nine poems reported as read!
So, I wonder what message was really intended,
My verse that explosive in somebody's head?

In years past PH (1) friend who was...

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The cold wind is riding in on the horses back and the air is slowly creeping up my new frock, I got it for a pre-Christmas gift and I have to  try it on...

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Driving down the highway
In the pitch black dead of night
The hairs on the back of my neck
Indications, not all is right

A long meandering bend
In the distance reveals a glow
Has captured my curiosity
My driving runs to...

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It takes just one word to move the universe when you want to converse, sometimes it takes just one word to move the elephant out of the room before the next full moon. Sometimes it’s...

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Life is a book of love,
What chapter are you reading?
A page of cheating or infidelity,
Or a page that tells of a loving prince?
No matter the chapter, you make the difference yourself.


Life is a book of...

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A CHRISTMAS DREAM

I went to bed that Christmas night, and once again I dreamed
Of my dear son who now is gone, but so real now it seemed.
For I sat in the chair that’s there beside...

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My head rested on my arms atop the wooden ledge.
A basement window I peered through covered with packed snow.
My mind wandered to the fridge where a carton of milk
     Sat empty...

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My sight decreasing in size,
I’m still feeling warm inside.
Though, I spy from far away,
A figure growing dark in day.

I take a deep breathe.
Shall it be my last?
My eyes are closing,
World gone and black.

Whirlwind of colors,
Drifting...

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I can hear the roaring in sea off the coast of Null with big boats engine penetrating the deep and the loud chatter of the fishermen in in the middle of the ocean screaming and...

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Farmer Father's Words To Beloved Son
(LECTURE, WISDOM, PRAYER PASSED ON)

Hold your horse my son, lets pull in tandem
united is better than single and random
You feed the mules, I will sharpen the plow
later you may rest,...

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I wrote two terrible poems last night.
Will this one be another?
I am looking at the clock.
It is time to leave and get the oil changed.
I read the sign as I pull in.
No Shirt, No Shoes,...

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I know a man who’s not adverse
To helping others slim of purse
He’s more than willing to help out,
If self-improvement floats your boat,
For teaching men to fish for trout,
Is poverty’s best antidote.

But wealthy men have certain...

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He'd wake up sorta rough around the edges
then he’d pull in his teeth from out of the glass
Yawn then rub his eyes with the back of his hands 
scratch his belly for a while and...

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Now further conversation taking place
described the safe, best way of stacking hides.
Ingenious method used filled hold's small space,
accomplished by the means of pulleys, glides.
One might think way could weaken vessel's sides.

"Only to four feet of...

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