Long Starr Poems

Mud and leather
dirt and nerve
bloodied laughter
collision to serve,
distance, drive and demolition
battle axe ambition in the wild air
muscle and mind joined in steeled instinct, 
a stitched pigskin ball, the grail of the Fall
to fumble it means...

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When asked
by my nephew
for an essential reading list
for PermaCultural Therapeutic Design,
my Taoist thoughts went back
to Unitarian-Universalist
Yin/Yang pre-history,
when Earth produced a theologian,
Dr. Thomas Starr King (1824-1864)
reaching out for non-violent dialogue
across all global healing cultures.

This 1800s Dr....

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As much as I cared & wanted to 
be there to share life & space, u 
forced my love away. I tried... 
exposed the depths of my heart, 
mind & invested time. Got lost 
in...

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REFLECTIONS ON POSTWAR AMERICAN PRESIDENTS
 
Truman became President by accident, which
probably explains why, on the whole, he did a good job.
Eisenhower, deprecated as an inveterate bungler,
a shillyshallying,  grinning incompetent,
is now beginning to emerge as...

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"Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil for Thou art with me..."Psalm 23:5***

Last night on July 14, 2021 a beloved man of God, Ed White...

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The Fifties...Music

The music of the fifties…well, what can I say…
was heaven here on earth compared with that today.
Romantic, lovely sentiments of heart and soul,
with poems set to music to advise, console.

Mid-fifties music era rendered lovely...

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Ten years past since Coyote deceased
The land became fruitful, with the help of a new priest
It was the time of the crescent moon
When the boys would be sent out across the desert dune
To kill a...

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Look at you sitting there

With your chubby hand


Holding my heart with your laugh


Knowing where I stand....


Sweet Baby Starr


I know where you are


Starring at you sleeping


Listening to your baby breath


Waiting for your laugh


Hearing the morning sounds


Under...

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GIVE ME SOME TRUTH
John, was born October 9, 1940, in Liverpool
He met Paul McCartney in 1957 
John and Paul formed a close working relationship ... COME TOGETHER
Young and fearless guys with music as the common...

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I remember the first time I saw a ball,

Those exquisite black and white pentagons ...
     The geometric excellence that intimated such mystery and excitement ...
I HAD to have one, and started...

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Sound, style and attitude from pop ballads to rock
                          ...

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Welcome signs spreads dah floor_
And here I stand just before.
There’s Happy people inside therein_
It's soon to open_ don't know when.

Peeping through dah peephole
waving to dah crowd_
doing my best_ not ta get loud.

I keep-a ringing dah...

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Ghost of Christmas past is back

The ghost of Christmas past dropped in
You see. he was completely out of wine
He had two stops to make by three
so, he borrowed some of mine

He asked me how i...

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Football season is here again.
The warriors are ready to meet
On a field of  battle green and white
Vowing never to face defeat..

Summer training has come and gone
The players fitness is at the very top. 
The...

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My pulse is high and the heart beats double punch
               Paul McCartney, George Harrison, John Lennon, Ringo Starr
   ...

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The lonely street stood still in the night,
Buildings grew tall all around with dim light.

Sound of my steps echoing in the alleys,
The air is moist like a mountain valley.

A bright neon light a few blocks...

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Belle hung out and consorted with outlaws,
So folks shunned her and called her a scoff law;
But things aren't as they seem,
And though not squeaky clean,
'Twas the men in her life who were outlaws.

Sam Starr was...

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There is no Sunday west of St. Louis
And no God that’s west of Ft. Smith—
So says the frontier adage that’s truest
And confirms the last Old West myth.

Wild Bill Hickok had him a dead man’s hand—
They...

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MOUNTAINS ARE MOUNTAINS
TREES ARE TREES
WHEN I CLOSE MY EYES BABY YOU ARE ALL I SEE
I THINK ABOUT YOU ALL DAY  I DREAM ABOUT YOU ALL NIGHT
WISHING YOU WHERE HERE HOLDING ME TIGHT
STARR LIGHT STARR...

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Starr 
You walked with us. 
You talked with us. 
You texted us. 
Now we miss you. 
You had the flu. 
You are our glue. 
We will miss the busses. 
We use to play in boxes....

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As long as we keep our eyes closed,
We can sneak through the crack
Of perpetual motion in space and time,
To find the unique crystal 
Made of a trillion magnon quasiparticles,
Whose impossible existence 
Makes us almost believe...

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October 7th we was greeted with a burst of delight;
And the starr, shimmering like the city at dusk,
So beautiful!

But the day we left your mother at the birthing center,
I was uneasy and panicky,
My heart throbbed...

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“Ringo Starr” is your popular name.
With it, you have achieved fame.
Few people know you as “Richard Starkey”.
That is the name you use legally.

You were the drummer for a four-piece band all would know.
However, you parted...

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The Gre.atest of sounds is rain coming down ,on a caravan roof on your hol's
Its one of the b.est  beats around since Ringo Starr played on those drums. 
so get the dominoes out and...

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(MOON STARR)                                 ...

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