Long Ricardo Poems

Author's note: This is an epic length poem that will have to be split into parts and will be serialized in successive posts.


PART 1

the highway's double line snakes in 
and out of my headlights
they searchlight...

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In the lives of those whose memories are cradled in destruction
comes a time when such memories are forgotten and the passage
of time brings a new birth and such things become distant.
One such story shall never...

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You were born in Clermont, Queensland on December, twenty-four, 
Away back circa eighteen sevn'ty-two. 
Edward Jones now had a fifth child, whom his dear wife Anna bore, 
Their second son and both were proud of...

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Unconventional, perhaps, but hope you enjoy. I was on the radio in grade school and had the distinction of singing “five golden rings,” off pitch but cute because I was young. Think of Lucy Ricardo…lol.

TWELVE...

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There's no good reason to be an outlaw.
A world of rocks and hard barren ground.
I became evil, in an evil world.
A bringer of death, good men hated.
I need to end my outlaw days, reflect and...

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This is my lyrical onslaught
I can fill up a page of rhymes from just one thought
I pick up the pen and put it to the page, then begins a strong force
As I start my lyrical...

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The road into Rotgut looked like every road,
in every town I've seen, dusty
I've traveled through so many towns
and this town is no different
I'm tired, just looking for the saloon
and a guy, a drifter, name of...

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5th Ave. was shoulder to shoulder with
hungry lunch-seeking business men
and women. Ricardo unpacked
his horn nervously and a foot cymbal.
Spring, early street season, too cold
for most musicians but he needed money.
His lips kissed the cold metal...

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Too Much TV
David J Walker

I imagined 
a grand theme song
And the applause  
of a capitative audience 

A clever line or two and then 
	The laugh track 
Of an amused 
though admittedly
phantom audience 

I was...

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Anne Bressington Lord Christopher Monkton Rashid Buttar dr Vernon Coleman dr Sherri Tenpenny Dr Peter  McCullough Dr Ben Tapper, nurse Kate Semrani nurse Shelly Tasker Deborah Conrad Jane Mikovits Del Matthew Bigtree Christine Ronald...

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I've come to you unarmed with love's chains
Through green valleys, over mountain passes
To kiss the face that comforts my soul's pains
And walk with you among the sweet grasses

I've died many times, on the outlaw trail
And...

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It was in Historic Forcados,
Where I’d first touched Pride of Barbados:
I’d run into A Talking Salvador 
Long arguing with Unshaken Ricardo,
Whose interest were in Stark Bravado,
His body partly building with Mamador …

Bravado-Loving and Preaching Ricardo...

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Richard Burton
       was uncertain
     if Liz Taylor cried

     Fred Astaire
       liked Ginger Rogers'
  ...

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Ricky Ricardo,
handsome talent of the Tropicana show.
serious, he cracks the whip, practices -
his bongos distract us.

Lucy,
his fiery red-headed wife - we
follow her madcap schemes,
her showbiz dreams.

Fred,
dumpy, grumpy, nearly dead
except he comes alive with dance -
far-fetched...

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Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto

Motherless at two weeks of age, sought her.
Within his heart and mind, imagined her.
Age ten, before life had hardly begun, 
He, whose talents his family did shun, 
Loved her, felt her....

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"A poet goes in search of poetry
To Neruda poetry came to search him.
He knew not from where it sprung.
There were no voices, faces or words
Poetry touched the man without a face".

Surrounded by foreign language 
And...

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He held me then
I sobbed and
felt like a child 
in his understanding 
arms 
telling me to let it all out
not to wipe away the tears 
of radiant, pent up emotion 
but let them be dried...

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“Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair”
Words that brought eroticism to bear
Penned by a man from the town of Parral
A poet for whom there’s no parallel.

Poetry won him acclaim,
Politics tarnished his name;
Pablo Neruda on...

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(Dedicated to Herv'e Villechaize who died September 4, 1993.)

He starred in Fantasy island with Ricardo Montalban.
Since 1993, people have been sad because he's gone.
It was traumatic when he died.
I wish he hadn't committed suicide.
He was...

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Rico writes about the truth
He is a limerick sleuth
He is no dummy
Wise and extremely funny
Cos he is long in the tooth.

Ricardo known as Rico,
His limericks are so slick
He scribes away
Writing limericks every day
He's sharp and...

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