Long Skelton Poems

Beware The Ides of March 2023
 
Ides simply referred to first new moon, 
which usually fell between 
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.

The following events all occurred
fifteenth of March 
across span of millenniums.

One:...

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1.    John Desmond Patrick Keegan
2.    Alfred, Lord Tennyson 
3.    Sally Aline Mae Beller
4.    Charles Edward A. Berry
5.    Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce...

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Ides simply referred to first new moon, 
which usually fell between 
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.

Smithsonian Magazine history buff
Tom A. Frail
posted March 4, 2010 issue
url = https://www.smithsonianmag.com/
history/top-ten-reasons-to-beware-
the-ides-of-march-8664107/
top ten reasons to 
beware the...

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The air is parched and crinkled, heavy with no place to go; with no sense of time, hanging suspended over the Salton Sea,
100 hundred miles in the middle of nowhere. 

A flat blue sky, swathed...

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the skelton of the watch
a vigil for the passing dead
things left unfed 
wraiths wander on 
watching wanting waiting 
guiding the blind in to the light
the instruments of time to mark mortality
counting the seconds, minutes, hours...

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Have your past ever been so bad, that all you want to do is lock it away,
Lets introduce,
Street walking, and deadly talking,
pain and several loses,
Lock it away, send it to me, No keep it, its...

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I'm where the rubber meets the road...that road to ruination
Where the metal meets the meat...in masses come the maggots
Where the train it meets the tracks headed down to Tarturas
Many hobos head for Hell and a...

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The Keystone Cops were funny,
Chaplain, Keaton, Lloyd, and Fields too.
Laurel and Hardy, and Will Rodgers,
Were just some of the names we knew.


Who can forget the Stooges, 
Or all the pies we saw them throw?
Who didn't...

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I had dreams of yesterday
I woke up with a smile
My dreams took me back 
And it was better for a while.

Jeff was calling Lassie
We had moonbeams in a jar
Perry Como was teaching us
To catch a...

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~He Knows ~
(The Catena Rondo)

God knows all our present  past and future
He created us with a great plan in mind
He wants us saved and love in heart to find
God knows all our present ...

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I was only two years old
                        with beautiful brown eyes and hair
...

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~He Knows~
(Catena Rondo)

God knows our present past and future
He created us with a great plan in mind
He wants us saved and love in heart to find
God knows all our present past and future

He created us...

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Down in the crypt where the caskets lie
And dust stirs up when trucks go by
Giggling sounds, not moans and groans
From the tomb of Skelton Bones

When the trucks go by no more
No light peeks beneath the...

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What I’d give to wake in the morning and hear those church bells ring
To turn on my old black and white and hear Gene Autry sing
Turn back the time to simpler days with Roy and...

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Can you remember Lost in Space, Bonanza and Gunsmoke?
How about Leave it to Beaver—all the fun they`d poke?
The Dick VanDyke Show made us laugh, and so did Mr Ed.
And all the married couples had to...

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~He Knows ~
(The Catena Rondo)

God knows all our present  past and future
He created us with a great plan in mind
He wants us saved and love in heart to find
God knows all our present ...

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Love and laughter go together
as do macaroni and cheese.
Like that noble dish of childhood
It’s a combo bound to please.

We laughed until the tears came
at gifted comics of our youth.
The golden age of radio,
it is called...

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When he had control of the remote I could get out of sorts
I preferred the dramas and he wanted only sports.

But on one type of programming we could usually agree.
We both got a big laugh...

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~Writers~
(Catena Rondo)


Writers love to write a great story through
Co-authors make an awesome team
All have more in common than it seem
Writers love to write great stories through

Co-authors make an awesome team
United they share more than their...

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~Writers~
(Catena Rondo)


Writers love to write a great story through
Co-authors make an awesome team
All have more in common than it seem
Writers love to write great stories through

Co-authors make an awesome team
United they share more than their...

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~Writers~
(Catena Rondo)


Writers love to write a great story through
Co-authors make an awesome team
All have more in common than it seem
Writers love to write great stories through

Co-authors make an awesome team
United they share more than their...

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~Writers~
(Catena Rondo)


Writers love to write a great story through
Co-authors make an awesome team
All have more in common than it seems
Writers love to write great stories through

Co-authors make an awesome team
United they share more than their...

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Love and laughter go together
as do macaroni and cheese.
Like that noble dish of childhood
It’s a combo bound to please.

We laughed until the tears came
at gifted comics of our youth.
The golden age of radio,
it is called...

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 Written in the Viator Poetry Form
Invented by Robin Skelton (1925-1997)
Canadian Author and Poet

'Tis of Thee Canada

For my country, proudly I wave the flag,
surround by great oceans north, east and west;
lucky to be born in...

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Lost my oar
#kashurqalam
 In the middle of Wular, lost rudder 
 Ripple of love forcibly  dragged me down,
The skilled plank heavy swimmed across the lake
Like a corpse without core above the Blue.

Who took rudder...

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