Long Reeves Poems

Look up in the sky ! It’s a bird ! It’s a plane.
It’s Superman !
More powerful than a locomotive, faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. This fearless...

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The victim list keeps growing

But no one really cares

The gristmill claims another one

Keep your hands in and don't stare

Hollywood is the golden land

The eternal silver screen

But many souls are lost here

A lot of greats or...

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I'm a firm believer
In limerick fever
(This isn't news)
"It'll cure the blues!"
Says Jan (who is no deceiver)

Written by Jan Allison:

Writing limericks is a fine art
Yes I write about poop or a fart
But show me someone
Whose not...

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Good, bad or otherwise it is so interesting when we discover one of our ancesters is famous.
'Daredevils over Niagara' was written to showcase people who have attempted to dominate the Canadian Horseshoe Falls. While reading...

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Some modern folks, when they hear his name,
will roll their eyes and look ashamed,
thinking the cowboy is uncivilized,
with his hats, and guns, and round-up rides.
That somehow they are beyond the stuff,
to good for the wild,...

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Three Cheers To Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis

Momma mia man date
comb the second Sunday 
during month of May
can be traced back 
to ancient Greeks and Romans
devotional festivals held
to honor mother goddesses Rhea and Cybele
setting precedent for...

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Momma mia man date
comb the second Sunday 
during month of May
can be traced back 
to ancient Greeks and Romans
devotional festivals held
to honor mother goddesses Rhea and Cybele
setting precedent for Mother's Day
where early Christians fancied festival
known...

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momma mia man date
comb the second Sunday during month of May
can be traced back to ancient Greeks and Romans
festivals held 

     to honor mother goddesses Rhea and Cybele
setting precedent for Mother's...

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Momma mia man date
comb the second Sunday during month of May
can be traced back to ancient Greeks and Romans
festivals held
to honor mother goddesses Rhea and Cybele
setting precedent for Mother's Day
where early Christians fancied festival
known as “Mothering...

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Shutting the door on my face
He showed his dominance,
Raising his voice on me
He reflected his control,
Cutting the phone before my reply
He nurtured his ego.

He perpetuated the same
Blooming his masculinity,
His miser brain and elite ego
Fueled her...

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P.S. IT’S POETRY WRITE ON WRITE ON CONGRATS TO MY FELLOW POETRY SOUPERS PART 4
Many thanks to you selected poets;
Of sharing your whispers from God, tho you didn’t know it;
Each letters and each word;
Reads so...

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A wicked demon lives within these walls
In the darkness bats hang upside down, 
their feet curl their tails in balls 
A wicked demon lives within these walls

It had but one ear 
an old tale claims...

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"Poetry Souper Heroes:  The Sequel"
by:  Eric L. Boddie

As we last saw, Anita Sharma was coming in
What's that Melody Thomas, I had to ask my friend
It's called Falling Raindrops, Kim Patrice Nunez is the...

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He once thanked Jesus for his fame when he was interviewed with his best friend Keanue Reeves.
In the end, i think, that's what finally clocked him out
As it was a den of vipers. A dark...

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after Rader/Schwartz/Vuong/Reeves/O’Hara

oh lucia.

if only there were someone
who loved you.

and not the version of yourself
you know they want to see
but the you that you have locked in your mind

you want the connection
without the commitment because
i love...

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FIRST   DATE

Her name was Judy McCormick, she was fourteen - barely
I was also fourteen, but claimed to be fifteen
She was slim,  pretty with  shortish dark brown hair,
Almond eyes, loveliest I'd ...

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I'll cross the sky of blue and gray 
To roam across seas faraway 
To the ocean of soaring dreams 
Beyond the hills and endless streams 

I'll go to land of milk and sweets 
I'll ride...

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The Phoenix Column was invented 
And patented in 1862 by Samuel Reeves,
Vice President of Phoenix Iron Works.
It consisted of sections of rolled, 
Flanged wrought iron, riveted together,
Creating a hollow structural column
That was lightweight, but strong....

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The gleaming warriors of Light advance
Aflame with Life, their shields aglow with gold
And lambent fire a glint from sword and lance.
Their silver battle-axes flash and flourish, bold

And brutal in mad massacre.  The hordes
Of Death...

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This was quite a challenge!
You could call it - My potpourri!
It will give other "Soupers", a little glimpse,
of what it is that makes me - me!

I spent 21 years in the Air Force. 
One year...

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"Jesus, Jesus there is  just something about that name"*
Jesus
He is my friend and shephard
His great love has unfettered
Chains, I'm free
Now as if "devil never even lived"
Jesus' great love has unfettered chains
My life has been...

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Scariest:1) The Woman In Black 2) The Uninvited  3)The Exorcist  Don't see 
these alone, esp. 1 & 2..

The Funniest: 1)Monty Python & the Holy Grail  2)My Cousin Vinny  3)The Acid 
Eaters...

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"I come to the garden alone"
In the quiet still of morning
On dawn my empty heart does hone
As the Doves sing their love mourning

"Each time I touch a rose petal"
That the dew refreshed over night
As I...

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It was as if someone had turned on the light .
I must have been about ten years old when my Mother sent me to the shop.
She liked Jim Reeves and I went to pick up...

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(I saw someone post a poem recently about Christopher
Reeves and it reminded me of this oldie of mine)

He didn’t come from Krypton. . . was not sent
to earth with any special kind of power.
He wasn’t...

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