Long Rationing Poems

The world outside my window

I view with one eye open 

while laying on my pillow

Birds are chirping and singing their songs

perched upon their tree of choice 

they know where they belong

I smell the coffee brewing...

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The world outside my window
I view with one eye open 
while laying on my pillow
Birds are chirping and singing their songs
perched upon their tree of choice 
they know where they belong
I smell the coffee brewing...

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"How many people are praying for love?" ("Don't Save It All For Christmas Day" by Avalon)


There are countless people in this world who have no one that loves them ... NO ONE! Why is that...

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"How many people are praying for love?"

There are countless people in this world who have no one that loves them ... NO ONE!

Why is that not the most critical concern for all of us who...

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Located in the hot Chilean desert of Atacama
Is the San Jose mine that became the focus of drama
The miners reported for work, to start their day
Totally unaware of what was coming their way.

It was August...

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Friends our Government are setting up a Governance board to censor you, tag you, give you a fine, or put you in jail if you voice an opinion they don't like. They hired Nina Jankowicz...

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A selfish man protects his family
        like a guard,he contemplates the welfare
   of his beloved family members,endures pain happily
       ...

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Now that I develop the gift of expression
What do I write about?
Now, creativity succeeds in succession,
why do I feel doubt?

I don't know how to write about trees
but I write about poetry with progressive ease.
I want...

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Time, to buy our poppies
To remember once again
remember those who died for us
And those who were just maimed
We must also remember
Those, who lost their loved ones
Mothers, sister’s, daughters
Fathers, brothers, son's
What a lot of us can't...

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Women, mysterious entities, from heaven to earth descended,
Ancestral magic that encircles and teaches the universe,
Like sirens from the depths, the misunderstood and adored temptation,
With eyes that gleam, a mystery that captivates and compels us.
They are...

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The fault finding                                ...

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Remembering the Henry J

By Elton Camp

When we speak of an automotive blunder
Most know how Ford’s Edsel went under
But there was another mistake made before
Though few recall that little car anymore

Henry J. Kaiser’s company made a...

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For what's it's worth, here's my recollection

Of my young years growing up in Canada in the 40s

Right off the bat, you may think the war years

Were difficult for me and my family

With rationing of food...

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Thought Police

Be careful what you say, 
be careful who you say it to. 
It might be heard... 
by someone that does not like it!

They will come to your door, 
and even the score, 
even if...

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Writing relative rhymed rhymes
Rhyming with revival rhythmically rhythm
Is not revue but reviewing my role
To resurrect as requested to revive back romance.
When rhyming my rhymes I can revolve revolutionary robust
Rocking like rocky rocks rolling to the...

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He leads me through East London, docks, pubs and stray dogs, the 
Thames lapping at low clouds.
We find the second-hand player in a street where the shops
are dusty holes under viaducts.
Carrying the Dansette portable record...

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When I was little,
life was supposed to be filled with laughter,
sticky fingers from melting ice cream,
and afternoons lost in make-believe,
toy cars and plastic dinosaurs battling in the living room.
I’d look up at the adults, safe...

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The Death of the Innocents

By Elton Camp

About politics or government I take no position
In this, yet another, “horrors of war” composition

My memories of the Second World War are few
My time was occupied with what little...

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he sat there in his room
gently shaking his head as
he chalked ducks on the floor
which then he carefully fed
over in the corner 
watching him with glee
the asylum keeper counted
from one to ninety three
ceaselessly repetetive
each number...

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Take my hand, walk with me.
I'll show you fragments from my life.
Its broken sidewalks,silently paved by broken souls,
their anger pent up from a world war.
I'll show you soft winters of a child and his sled.
The...

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dry skies shimmer and the skin sweats
earth harden and cracked to bits
winds whip laughter of tumbleweeds
red dust blush as heaven bleeds

parch and thirsty burns yellow sun
prayers for rain seem overdone
bodies of water disappeared
rationing life's liquid...

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No words today
My mind's gone away;
Come back another day

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Distress and dismay
Yes come what may;
Not much to say

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Feel the feeling
Flu unravels daze;
Word rationing maze

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Blank face
Blank mind;
Nothing new

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Repossessed plots
Words draining away;
Nothing matters

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Empty vessel here
Not much meaning;
Words cannot...

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A significantly different day
                 No bread or milk
empty for toilet paper
Reduced opening hours in grocery stores
-  Home insulation...

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He goes through each day 
obsessing over how to 
increase his earnings. 
Times are hard. 
He's drowning in debt; 
his bills gradually piling up.
Creditors bug him so much, 
he feels like screaming;
soon landlord will come...

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SIPPING COFFEE

There was a time a few decades ago
Well yes, many more than just a few
And post war rationing we still faced
Finding real ground coffee was tough
At least in homes of the common folk
Just early...

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