Long Pussyfooting Poems

Inauguration Day 2025 - Monday, January 20, 2025, 12:00?PM

Aforementioned event interestingly enough
coincides with Martin Luther King Junior day.

The late reverend American minister and activist,
now and forever more immortalized in the promised land
despite his work among...

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Something strange propel me out of my air bed this morning
It wasn't the stinking smell of pork burning in the oven
or the guy upstairs  jumping up and down the screechy stair way
Neither was it...

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Marry Your Best Friend To Get the Best of Both Worlds

Not many can claim they met their spouse in a battle of wits
much less the fabled (don't believe a word of it!) Internet.
But my uncle,...

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When the 21st century stepped into its third decade, the major tone of the world sharply switched. Internecine confrontation, cartelism and calumniation snaffled the high pitch, while comprehension, cooperation and cosmopolitanism, like ill-adapting burdens and...

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He's staring off into oblivion;
dead-lights, who of their own free will choose to illuminate
the gray matter microwave that is TV:
too vain, too vulgar. Thought Vanquisher,
brought to you by your friendly-facade-keepers:
the politicians pussyfooting on a pedestal
built...

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For over three long months , the war has been raging
Against the Russians, the Ukrainian army are engaging
You can't help but admire them, for putting up such a heroic fight 
Heavily out manned and outgunned,...

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No Tigers At Home In Africa 


Walking my tiger home alone I’m sure walking at last

home from home and beyond when I travel too fast

In Istanbul Hamburg St. Davids I gather my themes

full of life...

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The big bully of the civilised world the Russian Federation
Launched a barrage of missiles today hitting a NATO nation
Two innocent people lost their lives in the country of Poland
It's time for the west and NATO,...

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How many ways can we write about love
Without words we've already used
Could invent some new ones but most of you people
Would be lost and really confused

So we stick with same old time honoured phrases
Safe that...

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How many ways can we write about love
Without words we've already used
Could invent some new ones but most of you people
Would be lost and really confused

So we stick with same old time honoured phrases
Safe that...

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How many ways can we write about love
Without words, we've already used
Could invent some new ones but most of you people
Would be lost and really confused

So we stick with same old time-honored phrases
Safe that our...

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Hell Cat Queen

Oh, Mayling Lou dearest, my heart’s elation
On Halloween you’ll be a possessed abomination
Neither purr nor mew
pussyfooting   Boo!
You are tonight’s sweet spooky sensation!

‘Tis you I love kitty, dark Mayling Lou
Your surreptitious sly...

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You say you're having problems
With both family and friends
Let's see if we can boil this down
Now where do we begin

No sense in pussyfooting
If we're to get right to the truth
By my calculations
The common denominator is...

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King of the castle
Proud and arrogant
Prowls at night
Spends days alternating
Stretching and sleeping
Following that perfect
Internal clock for feeding times
Totally content with the dullest routine
Dreading jolly interruptions
Those busy festive family rumblings
So many extra people roundabout
All that crazy...

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You're not doing a stellar job
distracting me with idle chatter.

Life is not something to be ignored
and swept under a mat.
I've been living in limbo
no matter how you sugarcoat it.

Life is short and every beat matters.
Every...

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