Long Shoring Poems

Oklahoma cowboy, tough coal miner’s son
Born in Henryetta, south of Tulsa some
Raised by daddy’s momma, taught him wrong from right
Daddy taught him ropin’, taught him how to fight
 
Herding made no money, its stock was...

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                                  The...

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Did I say What I said You said

You said looking a little forlorn
						a little redundant
	the contradicting crosses in your eyelashes
   thrusting forth the brazen prophet in you for the day
   ...

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Utmost nadir of despair found
this atheist craning his neck skyward
hearing resplendent August orchestra
today June 10th, 2022
choral symphony may sound absurd,
but...mine supreme auditory sense

(compensated with poor vision,
i.e. extreme myopia) impossible mission
driving after dark
genetically injured
acute undoubted gifted...

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starry eyed cloud of surreal angels

utmost nadir of despair found
this atheist craning his neck skyward
hearing resplendent August
choral symphony may sound absurd,
but...mine supreme auditory sense

(compensated with poor vision,
i.e. extreme myopia) genetically injured
acute undoubted gifted courtesy,
viz cochlear...

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To claim more imperialist Russian land. 
An invasion of a neighbor was planned. 
Unbacked slander was said about them. 
Creating for the world a major problem. 
Putin claimed they were a pro-Nazi harbor. 
But the...

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A man had two horses, each a fine stallion, both buddies and good friends. It so happened, one of them lost eyesight in an accident. For the safety of the blind horse, the owner fixed...

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IF YOU THINK YOU’RE THE ONLY ONE…

   “A quiet and modest life,” says he in German, the most successful of them/us all, “brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant...

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Warrior Wombs
(for Sandy and the loss of our first grandson)
By Joyce Teed
2/8/17

Warrior Wombs
Every woman
Has an untold story
A secret
Untold
Or unseen
Her story
Includes
Silent sorrows
Wounds with no words
Winding through the untold 
History of all women
Empty wombs
Miscarriages
Mistimed pregnancies
Unwanted babies
Wanted babies...

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Crispy leaves curl from aged to fetal 
As time pronounces every petal done.
A moment in the lasting breath of summer, 
When beauty flicks from every flower flung.
A burst of color paints our eye 
Across the...

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Limericks dé-crochetés: Is not shame self-humiliation

Is not shame self-humiliation
To be thought of with condescension
   All men know some disgrace
   Except those without grace
Dignity’s the art of pretension

The man who fears not...

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~ Though reeling ~
~ amid the hour ~ 
~ of my dolor, I ~
~ still could not ~ 
~ concur with ~
~ those who ~
~ say "Passion ~
~~ is all together ~~
~ fruitless", because ~
~...

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~ and though reeling ~
~ amid the hour ~ 
~ of my dolor, I ~
~ still could not ~ 
~ concur with ~
~ those who ~
~ say "Passion ~
~~ is all together ~~
~ fruitless", because ~
~ mindful...

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Let dead rocks of reason lie on the way,
Let all logic, all do's and don'ts lie still,
The rules of grammar gathered yesterday,
Of metre and foot, let them let-down feel
If lines river-like flow to move ahead,
Let...

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Laying down without 
you, never. Understand 
what you did to not 
make me love you. Baby 
why did you leave me 
like this. You took away 
something special you 
took a piece of my heart...

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Little jewels of inspiration are strewn all around us if we look for them. By Poet



I won't fade before sunrise.
may sprouts of affection sigh
I will never close my eyes,
from the turtle dove's tears dry.

Strewn on...

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Grave Site

By the grave I saw the rest
There was no life left
Dead in the flesh no pulse left
God took back His breath
Ah, distinctly I was entombing
It threw its ghost against the remnants
The explosive earth ending
...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRj9jUpKhRI


Gliding down the river of dreams we take to the ore 
watching the last of the sunlight descend o'er the lake 
Peaceful wings soar above our heads and we smile 
as we shimmy through the...

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There once was a man 
named Trump; his
country needing a
royal bump; so, as age can 
refine, like vintage and wine –  
(seeing liberties decline) 
thought to take-on 
the thankless task 
of pulling a nation...

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Fast a sleep in a reclining chair, woke from slumber, by crashing thunder
Suddenly the lights go out and the TV flickers in and out
Darkness comes about, silence of the TV seems to just shout
Dazed and...

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Twenty-five  ©

25 seconds: the time it 
takes to fall in love…. 

25 minutes: into rehearsal 
we have our first kiss…. 

25 hours: I am dreaming of
you…. 

25 days: I know it is just the...

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The gilded flower grows astride the spring,
sweet with rain from the demise of the ice.
For every inch that hope grows, greed grows twice.
Intoxicated by the thrill, they sing,
And pay without thought for their wedding ring....

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Twenty-five 

25 seconds: the time it 
takes to fall in love…. 

25 minutes: into rehearsal 
we have our first kiss…. 

25 hours: I am dreaming of
you…. 

25 days: I know it is just the 
beginning…....

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It was never meant to last.
You warned me that you'd trip.  A relationship, 
like a house, cannot stand when built on a foundation of sand.
         ...

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A pristine, hidden stone
Lying in a crevice all it's own
No coroding wind, human hand to bemoan
Virgin beauty to a pilfering world unshown

Steely mason's hand o'er rocky divide did skim
Extracting rocks at a sculptor's whim
Purloined quarry...

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