Long Strike up the band Poems

Pausing on a late trip to South Dakota
I pulled off of the highway
Somewhere in Kansas
And shut off the lights
Reflecting that it might be good
To clear the windshield of bug carcasses
That were only being smeared 
Into...

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I’ll tell you all a story
Tis one close to my heart
Has love, Has life, It has a cow
A haystack torn apart
The man in question?
Well that be me.
The setting?
Cheltenham Town
So gather all, come, sit around
My tale...

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Soooooo.... this is just a random song I made up, inspired by a wacky dream I had...which was inspired by the Undertale game. I've been obsessed with one of the characters who really likes....you guessed...

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Time drifts after midnight                               ...

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The Soul-train was leaving the station,
Believers were gathered on board.
Their hands were all reaching for heaven, 
And happily praising the lord.
But someone was left on the platform,
A ticket-stub fell from his hands.
He waved as the...

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Proud parents gathered for the fifth grade band presentation.
The kids labored long and hard to enhance their musical education.
'Twas the band's first concert since its recent organization.
The harried teacher approached it with a sense of...

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Worship the meager population
of beasts
In the high house.
Few over the many.
Strategic over the blind.
We are at the stage, my friend,
Child of the night.
The beasts swing from the belfry
of the Cathedral,
Spewing mind poison through
black boxes that...

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A disparaging cry goes up throughout our land
Intense feelings are generated by vocal dissent
We are not hearing a patriotic “Strike Up the Band!”
The pot of dissent is stirred by a former president.

Intense feelings are generated...

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I'm one of millions of what's called a wordsmith
Forging weapons of the sharpened tongue
Generating of hymns of brazen oaths that have yet to be sung
So I inhale thoughts
Filling every bit of my lungs
Ready to exhale...

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In this life you will sometimes find
Beautiful images,colors cascading
But through the kaleidoscope of your mind
You surely might be masquerading

You know it's done with smoke and a mirror
And though you are sketched in candlelight
Just try to...

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I stood on the city street
And asked the passers by
All the folks I chanced to meet
What they thought of life

I got a different answer
From everyone I spoke
But isn't that a well known fact 
That I...

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Missing the Real... Red, White and Blue


rip yer guts out if yer able
put-cher colors on the table

red fer war and green fer envy
now dance yer jig with righteous gravy

you sell yer soul to istanbul
with lucre'...

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So, come what may, I will still fly my flag
I am proud to call myself an American,
In spite of all her bizarre foibles and faults
Crooked politicians and their shenanigans.

So, come what may, I will still...

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The guests had all left; the band had stopped playing
   No more witty remarks, no more 'As I was saying'
Decorations strewn casually on the floor here and there
   Half-filled glasses of...

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Christmas Time is coming . . .

Sometimes the celebration gets totally out of hand.
Anticipation swells the air, music, music everywhere.
Lift the baton, sound the horn, strike up the band!

A country music icon, Clint Black, once...

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10,000 people gathered on the beach that day
as he entered the stage wearing sandals he'd say, 
"WOW!  look at YOU  come to lend a hand"
Then he grabbed his guitar to strike up his...

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Strike up the band.
It's going to be grand.
Sing as never before.
Let the music roar.
Strike up the band.

If you are feeling down.
Turn up the sound.
Give it all you got.
The music is  hot.
Let the music play.
Strike...

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NO GLORY FOUND
 
No glory found and no guilt ever apportioned 
For those guiding young men to wars uncautioned,

The chosen too often of colour, unlearned or piss poor.
But true heroes they’ll be winning by force majeure.

Ticker...

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Where life can seem half empty
In a sandbox missing sand 
In this land of plenty
It is still full of demands
You can follow along the playbook
Do the best you can
But it's hard to fight what's not...

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A cacophony of sounds, all jumbled together
   Random notes, dissonance everywhere

Violin bows saw the air lazily, effortlessly
   Then furiously, chins pressed hard to instruments

Flautists' lips wistfully poised above the holes
 ...

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Sports is such a crazy mess
All that wasted time watching your team
But if they win you’ll feel your best
It's crazy how it can affect your scheme

Maybe four hours watching the set
at the game, in the...

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Days

We are taught to number our days
Wishing always that laughter stays
Life then is beautiful and we rejoice
Make it last if we had that choice
Love and laughter go hand in hand
Dancing singing strike up the band
Exuberant...

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Things are getting gross around here, wanna join? 
Like tar pits, and there's room for one more 
Big old rib bones poking up out of the muck 
Greasy handshakes on top of paper on top...

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My fingers on the strings, Pressing on the frets.    My mind gets off of other things 
and I forget my bets.    I strum a chord and think to myself,...

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New Moon

What, a new moon? We're getting a new moon?
You say it will be arriving soon?
Will it be as shiny and bright
As the other with its glistening light?

Oh, how positively grand
The lads and lassies will...

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