Long Raffle Poems

Communities are built on pioneer toil and generational links,
with building, road and railway, applied to how a council thinks.
There’s sporting ties and country hall, to form the social hub,
and of course a meeting place -...

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Communities are built on pioneer toil and generational links,
with building, road and railway, applied to how a council thinks.
There’s sporting ties and country hall, to form the social hub,
and of course a meeting place -...

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There’s this bison ranch in west Nebraska,
not all that far away from the Pine Ridge,
most of the time they make money off meat,
though when the weather gets colder than a fridge

they like to offer folks...

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They call it "Championship Thunder"
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The Martin family lived in a rented house across from us,
and some of the kids were forced to sleep in a converted bus.
There were thirteen kids ‘hell raising’; every one I got to know,
but the...

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Once in a blue moon I have been told
The cliché’s clan gets together with the Catch Phrase posy

If I have told you once I have told you a thousand times this story or are you...

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My abiding memory of 2015 is of events that are so sad
With my father’s death, it’s the worst year I’ve ever had

It has been the most challenging year for me
But with amazing support I remain...

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I took my mum to slimming world 
On every Tuesday night 
She’d get her finest glad rags on
And beam with sheer delight

Not much of an adventure,
On the way she’d barely speak.
But she’d set her sights...

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T’was the night before Christmas
Time flew like jet’s zooming past
All working men and women in the house
Couldn’t scratch their heads in a sudden rush

Women needed to set all before they leave
For a church service on...

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AR 15 was found in one of the airplane's black boxes

News about AR-15 And Southport, NC

bing.com/news

NC fire department decides to remove AR-15 and other firearms from raffle

WNCN · 2 hours ago

(AP Photo/Charles Krupa) SOUTHPORT, N.C....

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“And the top prize is to spend the day with a ventriloquist,” my mother told me,
Proudly.  She was the organizer of the carnival, and thought this up herself.
What the heck? I had bought fifty...

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In the beginning of time
We sought out a rhyme that would make things begin to shine
Each of us has been given a real talent to discover
We all must look within deep inside
Love is  a...

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They organized a church bazaar,
To raise money for the poor.
A booth for selling chances
Was set up, outside the door.

When I bought the raffle ticket, 
My reasoning was murky,
And I could only just believe it,
When I...

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I won a basket of lavender goodies on a local raffle
It bought a smile to my face
And bought back many memories
Of a lovely lady I once knew

Her husband was a retired GP
She had Parkinson’s Disease...

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Standing at back of cafeteria during youth basketball awards ceremony
This is my community.
"What you do may not seem important but it is very important that you
      do it."

The men and...

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Chocolate candy and popcorn. Propping up my feet. Waiting for the show to come 
on.
The Mr. Pibb is sitting securely on my right and ready to drink. Oh, what a treat!
My head is tilted back...

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O pilot of my whole being! O Soul! Spirit! Atma! 
O, you that leads me to the absolute Paramatma!
O, I yearn to connect with you! Communicate! Converse!
O, I long to touch you; feel you; in...

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here i am in the flesh
no victim levelled in scope
22 catches im cashing
not selling the dope
i watched the sunrise
used to pray sometimes
kids thatd played outside
tho fate did seem unkind
chased a better understanding
even struck with fear
i...

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Fundraiser 

Best Christmas idea fundraiser
Send donation request letters

A festival of trees to raffle
You’ll get more then a tree of raddles

Companies open to donating
Giving them free advertising

Can even decorate their own tree
A Lego Christmas top it...

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Have you ever eaten an apple
By sitting on a speedy bicycle?
Difficult? Sympathy is like sizzle
Shouts when not got in coddle;
Smiles if given in time subtle.
Shrewd! With poor does giggle
With rich it does struggle.
How can I,...

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THE      UGLIES

He stood slouched and dirty and hopeless
She was desperately  cigaretteless
They were breedless but together
Uglified in a natural way altogether
Uglicity personified
Their mothers would be horrified

No homes, no money, just...

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Early morning I stumble around
Half asleep I make no sound
Coffee machine gives a groan
It’s beyond repair hear my moan

Decided to brew a cup of char
Prop myself up at breakfast bar
Toast, I think so put ...

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Fathering a baby after surrendered hopes,
Alive remaining after wearing the ropes,
The Surviving Staff of a job- relieving Shuffle,
A beggar winning a million dollar raffle.
 
A chance to live again from a charity medication,
A missing valuable...

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KARMIC PATHS

Rains in
This brittle bridge
Quickening my dead pace,
I am now in a lane where men
Walk in a trance. I am at the soothsayer’s
Predicting  sunny days ahead.
I am now a golden bridge
Where a hopeful
Sun walks.

On...

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The squirrels always ate the seed 
I’d used to fill the feeder.
They’d shimmy up the pole to follow
One brave soul, the leader.

Whenever I glanced out and saw
A squirrel up there munching,
I’d step outside and stomp...

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