Long Smokies Poems

All has come to an end, except for who to proclaim
The winner of The National College Football Championship Game

Excitement is brewing for the play-off game
Some will be at the game watching getting rained on, cold,...

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Looking backward one can see so clearly. 
The priceless diamond held loosely in hand. 
Did not seem as vital but merely
What most every kid had in the heartland. 

The sidelines were of no significance
For the...

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Have pity on the Scott’s ruled 
By the Brexit voting sassenach
Who don’t seem to understand 
We too want out country back.
Arbroath Smokies for breakfast
Porridge  seasoned with salt
Kedgeree, Haggis, neaps and tastes
With wee drams of...

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There was a mighty chicken truck
Whose name was Can’t Catch Me
He traveled to the coast and back
From sea to shining sea
All the smokies tried to catch him
They just wouldn’t let him be
But somehow ol’ Can’t...

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So Willy Wonka’s gone and now I’ve got
his factory. Though chocolate is great,
there’s something else to which I’ve given thought!
Because of Covid, livestock’s gone to waste.
Please, Farmers, do not throw your pigs away!
Although it’s getting...

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AMERICAN SPLENDOR


Arizona has the Painted Desert
The Grand Canyon is there as well
Montana and Wyoming house Yellowstone
With beauty that weaves a spell

Wyoming hosts the Grand Tetons
Montana the Big Blue Sky
The splendor of God's Creation
Is nothing to...

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My Dad was the best
He was there when I needed him most
He was my best friend 
He helped me through hard times 
He loved me no matter what 


We would go for rides together 
We...

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After escaping the amish clan
and returning back home,
looked like someone followed me
a peculiar looking man,
seemed like everywhere
I'd go he'd be right there,
like something out of a
stalking amish mafia nightmare,
he was kind of short
and of course...

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Regina
Tender, true, trusting, thankful 
Daughter of two hearts from the Smokies 
Lover of Jesus, family, poetry and truth
Who feels most alive when I’m giving, feeling, forgiving
Who fears the darkness of a heart without God
Who would...

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From the Ferris wheel in Memphis to the sunset in Bombay --
From the sunrise in the Smokies to the rain on Frisco Bay --
These memories inside my heart are at my beck and call.
But, when...

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Life is an adventure! I've cruised
In boats. Rowed canoe, sixty miles.
Walked the Smokies: fifty miles with
Thirty pounds on my back in knapsack.

Once slept two in one sleeping bag
Because the rains came down so hard.
And rode...

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