Long Shep Poems

Moe
Larry
Curly

Shep 
Joe

This Three-Fifth Stooges moron quartet
are brain-slow slugs you don’t wanna IQ know

Just sitting on a milk crate,
waiting outside of the MGM studio gate
Moe, Larry and Curly passed my way

They were yukking it up,
talking clown...

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MY LAND

Staff rod in hand, and on my feet a pair of good hardy leather shoes
Set off onto the bight coastal track to a view of many colourful hues

In four score plus nine of my...

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It was the start of a decade not to be forgotten.

It was my growing up period.  A very bad year for me

in many ways.  My last year of Jr. High I was kicked...

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The Doberman Pinscher

A Doberman’s known to be picky
With friends so to greet one is tricky
To kiss is a bummer
Undoubtedly dumber
Is to sneak up and give one a hickey

The English Setter

The reason we call them a...

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My name is Tom and I'm the cat here on Manor Farm 
Let me introduce you  to the gang .
I rule the roost as you will see and ginger the chicken she agrees. 
The...

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Fifty years ago came
to me this morning
days long pass
a June day so cool.

Waking up to musical
sounds of birds singing
to me.  All summer
long to freely do
as I pleased.

No cares, no worries
just now waiting for
friend Danny...

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Dad it's been twenty years,
since you have been gone now,
whenever I think of you,
the thought brings tears.

There's so much to tell
you I don't know where to begin,
two months after you died,
we had a son, he's...

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The land just outside of Heaven,
the bible doesn't mention it, but
it's there just the same.

I saw a vision of it, the day
my dog Murphy died, as I held
his gentle paw after he had passed on.

I...

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"My Dearest Mom and Dad", his poignant letter began.
"I need to write this letter to you now while I can.
Tonight I'm scheduled to go out on a perilous patrol;
In a few minutes I must report...

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She rocked Danny nigh the window in her rocking chair,
Cuddled him closely and hummed an ancient Irish air.
As she gazed thro' the window at the vast horizons beyond,
She pondered her precious gift and the closeness...

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My memories of this dear old town will

always be with me, until day I die.

Small town life will do that to you.

This little town rests in the great State

of Iowa, where I spent the first...

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We lived in a home near 
the edge of the woods.
Old wooden floors would 
creak with every step.
One night when I was 
home alone with only our
German Sheppard dog, 
Shep, to keep me company,
The boogeyman...

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As a child I spent hours
sitting at the old soda
fountain, drinking my
chocolate malt only
25 cents was the cost.

While old shep my
favorite dog of all
time waited patently
for me, while I read
all the comics on
the comic rack.

Little...

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Mum will be worried and tonight will be a frost
The sun is going down quickly I know I am lost
Not at all sure if we are on the right track
Shep, you are smart you'll find...

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Biting winds and swirling flakes of snow had finally abated

We surveyed the deep drifts, which lay on the fields
The silvery moon peeped through the clouds and lit our way
It was bitterly cold, but the pitiful...

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When Shep died I was heartbroken and sick,

how could any dog ever replace shep?

I didn't want a dog, but after a while I knew

that a dog is just what I wanted.

Found this little black ...

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The days of my youth is over,
but I have stored my memories
in a memory box.

Today I opened the box,
so carefully and looked inside,
there at the kitchen table,

sat my dear grandma having her
morning coffee, I said...

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For a young boy in
1951 things were not
going right.

School friends I had
none, had no one
to turn to.

Knew that my dad
had a great collie
named shep.

Loved this dog
so, as he loved
me, even more.

I had been down
to my...

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Dasher and stasher in a Hat & suit you say?
The kitten switches tale in a most catty way…
Licking at her claws she creates a rhyme while 
Looking at the desert, keeps her purr sublime.
.
Watching Dr....

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The tree was magnificent in all its green glory
Its limbs spread proud and true
Beautifully shaped and full of new growth
It stood tall against the blue.
Many a child it had seen evolve
In the seventy years in...

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…MORNING TIME

Every morning at four, I hear the slamming of the woodshed door.
The rattle of the poker and the smell of wood smoke, wafting  through the air.
It rolls its way up the stair to...

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Shep the pup was working the sheep;
He had to work hard to earn his keep.
Away, come bye, walk in; but never a scold,
Because he always did what he was told.

Keeping all the sheep safe from...

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Saturday morning, miss those
early days of my youth,
when dear old mother
would fix me breakfast,
can still smell that bacon
cooking in her kitchen.

Remember waking up
to the cool fresh air of
summer, that would be
flowing in through the
open window.

Listening...

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Old shep and me, while
growing up, that's the way
it was.

For this dog was my
best friend I ever had,
wherever I went he
was sure to go.

Waited for me
at the drug store
and the movie theater
week after week.

He was...

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It's been thirty years,
that he's been gone
the day he died brought tears,
all day I played his song.

For nine long years,
I loved him and he loved me,
the day he died brought tears,
toward the end he could...

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