Long Roy Poems

Matthew delivers his latest bullet – tin...

from the Harris-Walz front
where liberal minded socially progressive
electorate doth agonizingly grunt
targeted in crosshairs scoped out 
eager and ready to be mortally wounded 
courtesy notorious big headed 
(and bigoted) infamous...

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Eric Mottram on the American literary and cultural scene during 1965-66 while he was the recipient of the American Learned Societies’ award for a year. (begun in the last post and to be continued)

January 2,...

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I got friggin heebie jeebies

Cuz buzzards circle o'er me
eyeing these lovely bones prithee
id est Roy L. T. Canard, Si
hence impossible mission 
to be lovey dove vee.

Vague remembrances of dream  
which recurred with frequency
transfixed by...

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Ginny didn’t know if it was a large pond or a small lake in the middle of the beautiful park where she had been hired right after high school to help with maintenance of the...

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Ted’s libido has now gone astray
He refused a quick roll in the hay
So what could be the cause -   
It’s the male menopause   
He’s been grumpy and snappy all day!
 
His...

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Woven are these pages in poetic verse,
With bare threads of our deepest feelings,
You will find laughter, tears and remorse,
and words of wisdom, prayer and healings.

What compels their pens to shed poetic ink?
What forlorn moment inspired...

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I saw a cat quartet within my dodgy dream,
Sorta started worryin' that I'd gone off the beam,
Really began to wonder if my mind was gettin' weak,
They had their own language that only they could speak.

While...

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Translation of Eric Mottram’s TWENTYEIGHTH LEGAL (Part One) by T. Wignesan
 
N.B. If any one is interested in reading the continuation of the extracts of letters that Eric Mottram wrote from America during 1965-66 to...

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Translation of YESTERDAY WHEN I WAS YOUNG
By T. Wignesan
(Written by : Herbert Kretzmer)

(Variously sung in a host of styles, moods and orchestration by
exquisite soul-movers like Roberta Flack, Shirley Bassey, Charles Aznavour, Glen Campbell, Andy Williams,...

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Adolescent infatuations...never consummated

Greetings reader from a cross between an aging seventy inch long (ringing ding dong) haired pencil necked geek and a Norwegian bachelor farmer wannabe; meaning yours truly actually a virtually married Pennsylvania man,...

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EFFUSED ENCOUNTER


Neither a dream nor a trick, I beguiled--
I reach the sky enameled with golden smile.
To hurdle bumps and curves, I continue to pedal
this steadfast being yearn to step on a pedestal,
I found at the...

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First version 



As Midnight Moon Shines Upon Her Eyes 


In a dream world where fantasies abound 
shall be where my princess is found
Wrapped in her vision an angelic choir
cherubs singing her heart's desire
Her voice soothes...

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Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson
A brand new sheriff came to town
I'm sure he's not the last
We've had fourteen in the past year
They leave here mighty fast

Some can't stand the pressure
Others end up in boot hill
It...

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When I was just a teenage lad, and growing up out west
I never wore a cowboy hat or fancy leather vests,
never put on cowboy boots or western shirts with snaps,
never wore tooled leather belts, much...

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Siegfried and the Uniq-Horn
by Loch David Crane, "The Magic Santa Claus" 
October 10, 2003       

This is the story of the Unicorn,	
of Siegfried and his friend Roy Horn.
These immigrants first...

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He's Kind Of Crazy
By Roy Merritt

The ambassador arrived at the presidential palace 
A very humble man
He looked at the president and said. "Cuz 
You gotta understand
Our president didn’t mean it 
He’s a little off you...

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For those who are following this story, here is the next installment. If this is your first time reading, please read the first one and it will help make sense of the story. Thanks for...

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In regards, to the birds and the bees
Depends on who’s watching, what he sees
There are some women, impossible to please
Wise men are wary, to be with one of these

See beneath all that glitter, her cool...

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THE MAD MAN IN THE CORNER
By Roy Merritt

A mad man in the corner was ranting on insane
A man who was blinded wracked with mental pain
He couldn’t believe they lost couldn’t believe this be true
No they...

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A lovely Llama called Lin
Got her head stuck in a bin
She gave a shy yelp
We all dashed to help
And tended the cut on her chin

She’s got such a pretty white coat
It’s much softer than that...

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This Ain't a Goddamn Country Song

You know I love my Rock and Roll

I wouldn't write a Country Song

'Cause that's not how I roll

This song it ain't bout country things

Like pickup trucks and cars

You'll never find...

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Hey Feller Where You Goin'
By Roy Merritt

Every time he went by that graveyard 
He would whistle a soothing tune
He wanted to get past that place
And he wanted to do it soon 
He didn’t like goin’...

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Copyright 2015 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
POETIC LYRICS BY TLH ANDRESS (SWISS FAMILY- THE 'ROYALS')



When YOU...Brew Right!
IS...YOUR...COF-FEE...TEA...OR-JUST-ME?

JUST...A...PACK-AGED...Silly-Old...SMOOTH-DEE/LIGHT!

BROWN/STAINED...'N/BURNED!

GROUND-ED-'N...BROWN!

SPILLED/RIGHT? WRONG?

TOSS-THAT/BITCH...BUM/DOWN!

JUST...Spell-it/RIGHT!

OR-WRONG!

DONE-RIGHT...OR...WRONG!

JUST-WHIP/IT!

360! CIR-CA-LEAN...TOSSED/RIGHT...'n/TIGHT!

ROUND-and-ROUND!

SPOON-IT! CIR-CA-LEAN!

[Brief Musical Interlude]

SIL-VER/SPOONS...AND...ROY-AL/ACES-ALL!

A-TOOT...A-TEET/PUFFIN-HOT!

A-TOOT...A-TEET/PUFFIN-HOT!

A...PUFFIN/HOT...DEE-SIGN!

COF-FEE/TEA...OR-JUST/ME?

[Brief Musical Interlude]

Smooth-Designs...Done-Right/OR...WRONG!

A-'HERC'...A-'VEE' [Venus]?

FONTED-NOTES...PENNED-RIGHT...AND-COM-PU-TERED/WRONG!

A Smooth/Dee-sign?

BREWED-RIGHT?

STAINED/WRONG?

Pack-AGED/SIL-LY-'OL-DEE-SIGN!

360? OR-JUST/10th-DEGREE?

Just...BREAK-a-COOKIE...
RIGHT...AND-TIGHT!

FOR...A-FOR-TU/NATE...DESIGN!

TOSSED-RIGHT...A-BAKER'S-13th/DEE-GREE-and/SWEETEST/DESIGN!

CIR-CAL-LEAN-and/RIGHT!

'N-TIGHT...FOLDED/BROWN!

A-LE-GENDARY...CLOTHE...TO/BAKE...TO/CUT-BROWN!

BLACK?

A...NEW/STEP?

A/STEP-a-DANCE!

A...NEW-CLOTHE...TO/CUT-RIGHT/WRONG!

HE/SHE...CUT-THAT...'OL-CLOTHE...RIGHT-AND-TIGHT!

DOING-IT...RIGHT-OR/WRONG!

HE/SHE...CUT-THAT...'OL-CLOTHE...RIGHT-AND-TIGHT...AND/BUSTED-WRONG!

HEY...'TWAS-IT...RIGHT-'n-TIGHT...DONE/WRONG?

[Musical Interlude]

A-Date...To-Ree-member!

HANDS...so...SOFT!

OR...BURNED/BLACK...AND/BLUE...ROY-AL?

PUR-PAL-LEAN?

ROYAL...DESTINY?

[Teeth] 'FONTS'...OF-IVORY!

3-MISSING?

A...ROYAL...MYS-TER-Y?

[Musical Interlude]

In a Distant Harbor...Old Man Moon...GRINNED-and-SPOUTED!

TEARS-and-FEARS...DOWN!


A/WHALE-SPOUTED!

AND...BLEW-UP!

IT-'TWAS...A-GUSHERS'...13th-DEGREE!

[Briefest Musical Interlude]

And...

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I have to know every step of the day in advance.
I need to make a list when I go to bed at night.
I don’t want to forget and I can’t take a chance
On leaving something...

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