Long Roun Poems

She took death hard
She gave up on living.
Though hoping for a miracle
She was praying for a blessing.
Seemed all her future plans. 
Washed-out with tides that rolled away. 
Though her realities were unstable
There were many who...

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History takes us back, two thousand years ago,
People walked and rode, where'er they had to go.
News would travel slow, and folks would gather roun',
To hear the latest thing, passed from town to town.
Cities had a...

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Not Cheap
By: Tom Wright
6/8/98

Old "Chaps" weathered face,
though wrinkled, had seen.
The good side of life,
when the grass was still green.
Before the drought came,
"Long Bout" seventy-five.
When all of his cows,
and family we're alive

The "leanin" old barn,
had the...

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Don’ wanna bee roun ewe noh moh.
Don’ wanna see da trajuhdee dats heded,
At yah doh.
Ewe wuz vary ahful tah mi,
God’s chile. Eye didden doyah nuttin.
’
Yah ‘sposed,  tah bee ah liter rite?
Butt ya playin’ roun...

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A Top A Highland Hill

A top a windswept highland hill above Locheil land
Clansmen gathered roun and shook the princes haun
They raised the standard high cheered till they were hoarse
Followed the flying heron across the highland...

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I wish, i could be there 
with you baby on 
beach ,
counting and makin 
shapes out of those big 
black clouds....
 
 
I wish, i could be there 
with you baby, playing 
up with your...

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Notta easy grasper – days back I cross ole Jasper
neath the olden ground’s crooket pine tree
and, oh, bless be, things he tole there to me!

He wanna’d me to hear all bout watz truth –
he say...

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I wake up everyday in anger
Watching the sun smile
Hearing the trees laugh 
The anxiety of morning traffic

Before breakfast is served
I scowl at the eggs
And scoff at the bacon
Even go as so far to critique the...

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A Procrastinators Day
by Robert (Bob) Moore

So now it takes me twice as long, to do half of what I did
the joints will creak, and muscles ache, not kidding you our kid
when I get up in’t...

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Why are these giant arms grabbing at me? ...
Oops! Up i go.I only wished i could run and flee.
I'm getting dizzy.
Oh heck! Why are these bars in front of my face? 
Why are you, you...

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"Howard    woncha say a few wurds?
Cum on    Howard    like over tha bird."
Says Aunt Jen    visitin' fer the holeeday.

Weuns are seated   ...

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that paper— void of agape love— is like a hand without a glove
who told that blame lie?!—sweet as pie....

preacher crack open the "Good Book" and pretend words he or she took—  NOT!!!
who told that...

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CITY BLUES  (triple Etheree)

Hey! 
Ol’ man
Weavin’ roun’
Haid be foggy
An close ta tha groun’
(six-feet undah     that is)
Hey!    man    yo chin be runnin’
An I aint jus...

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The dark crept with its black humor
Rallied at the little girls feet
Dared her to move by casting his shadow
Made of a witches broom and a boogeyman
He screamed at the trees and made the tremble
While she...

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Silent sighs as a remorseful tear taps the ground
 Babies mama be sure to do it differently if theres ever a 
second go roun'
 Lets start decoratin' next years tree
 Plump pumpkins for the world...

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