Long Recommends Poems

Steven is a retired teacher disturbed by the problems he sees in education. Schools weren’t perfect when he was teaching but they were better than they are today. He has ideas for improvements. 

Some of...

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I never knew that Stonehenge refers to hanging gallows


While solstice gives solace as the sun dial moves forth

Many years of mysteries immortalized for sacred worship

	Blue Stones transported from Pembrokeshire

	For a giant Cromlech by magic or...

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I have been a man since before I was a child
Having moments so harsh sending me into the wild
As a boy 14 I learned the man in our home was not dad
I learned my biological...

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Q:  Why should especially property owners and home owners hesitate to give free
      room and board to illegal aliens?

A:  This is legal in Washington State:  If you...

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It was the Holy Spirit that recently told internet pod-caster You Tube, internet
prophet Troy Black.  Who's a young  married man with five very young children.
According to him, his prophecies always come true, but...

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Let's start out with my nightmares,  I used to have them revolving around jack 
a lanterns that got so horrific, for numerous years I was unable to even look at
a carved Halloween pumpkin. ...

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Commentaries by Holton and Dubarry

Q: Since the children of Lot reside in Israel's neighboring country of Jordan.
      will Jordan enter into Psalm 83, [even though our US's government is
 ...

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The following promises were given of the Blessed Mother to Saint Dominic and Blessed Alan in the twelfth century
These promises are fifteen in number
and are for Christians who recite the Rosary.  
The Blessed Mother...

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It stands on the edge of civilization,
fed by a ghost town road
A starving artery leading into the desert
Only desperadoes and Death Valley aficionados
pass through this lonely stretch of land
But there's a diner sitting at this...

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A DREAMERS PLIGHT ON JUDGEMENT DAY

Give solely sovereign sway & Masterdom.
The air nimbly & sweetly recommends itself unto my gentle senses
To commend the ingredients of my poisoned chalice.
But this same thing we desire the most
That...

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I've been a bit free with the vitriol with a couple of poems recently, and need to check myself.  Some months ago I met a bard, Kevan Manwaring.  In his book, the Bardic...

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Is there a doctor in the house?
A cryptic message from the uniting nations,
looking for yet another credentialed ecotherapist
to surgically remove all our economic and political issues.

Those remaining after overdosing on pharmaceuticals
as media marketed 
through normal...

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The man who never listened to the troubles of his wife

fell down the escalator at King's Cross station.

No-one met his eyes,

as he lay sickly on the concrete,

though someone did push his shiny briefcase towards him

as...

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Add #8
'Kimmy's Bliss?' Find yours too (on the yellow brick road)!
'Courage' leads to adventure, 'Brain' lightens your load!
But real 'Heart' is the answer we're all looking for,
She's a 'Wizard of Ah's,' (1) you will come...

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1. They said the meeting point
between your traits and swagger
has dislocated 
and your newly acquired awful image
is beyond reversal.
But hey! I do not fall for obscurantism
on your honor, my senses are on sentry duty
even when...

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All alone my father use to ride
On the long lonely streets
That runs through cane fields’
While we are warm under our sheets

My father was very hard working
And he always had a smile to show
Even when he...

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Tapering Off

Youthful ambition, combined steel order shout
Is enough to break organic, is enough to force you out.
Just listening for my orders, pain ignorance my plan
Childish delusion, a boy acting of a man.

Eagerly awaiting, to the...

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(for Manoranjan Byapari, a rickshaw puller  who writes Bangla novels, stories and autobiography)
--Jaydeep Sarangi

You may dismiss all I record here
              ...

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Got such sharp pain in my heart,
feels like it will never go away
I'm dying on the inside,
sadness eating at my soul like a cancer
Boxes full of tissues,
empty bed is missing you
Toss and turn every night,
under...

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ROMANTIC SURVEILLANCE
Friday came with a change
The incubated hen got laid,
On this platter of grace shaped
Into spade,
Her beauty flows faster than
The rain
Washes through my vain
As I read within her photo and
Her lips says,
Hello my charming male,
Project...

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At lunch on Wednesdays, we go out and dine at Trattoria Romana ,
wth my confreres in the community, there’s a choice to make;
either we spend the money or be content with the left-over at home
for...

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My eyes of umber caught in a slumber 
dreams pull me under, I’m in a trance.
My mind asunder hearing thunder,
the night has come with another chance.
Sleepwalking brings one more dance.

My arms spread out my mind...

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The healing power of FORGIVENESS has brought me gratitude,
          in moments of atonement I feel a positive attitude-
CLEMENCY with amnesty brings me to a compassionate place,...

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when you’re down
when you’re blue
even petula clark is out to try & get you
to do what she wants---
people that you know &
people for whom you could hardly give a fleeting ****
are all out to cure...

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Seems each time I visit my doc he recommends more pills for my health!

I'm not sure they're effective but this I know, they're depletin' my wealth!

And with all the side effects, I'm really concerned about...

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