Long Stringer Poems

Treat others how you like to
for they will treat you how you want to
be ready for absolution for it will come
I have seen it plenty of times and it is done
I know you want to...

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Joe Bonamassa is famous for more than just guitar skills.
but as for the lovely array of ancient antiques,
His "Nerdville" house is filled with tools and artifacts.

Joe Bonamassa hankers for blues-rock as pioneers age.
Danny Gatton taught...

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Chameleon 

Im not sure what happened to you, was it a bad upbringing, parenting, or is this really you.

You never placed a hand on me, you never needed to, you got to me verbally.

Always full...

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My Pa warn't much for music,	
Not like ya hear today.
Them tune he learnt and taught me,
Were from a bygone day.
But Saturday nights were special;
At least they were to me.
Cause that was when we'd play them...

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March is a time of transition
winter and spring commence their struggle
between moments of ice and mud
a robin appears heralding the inevitable
life stumbling from its slumber
it was in such a period of change in 1905
that the...

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*Image of Stringer Davis and Margaret Rutherford by Fanpop.


Miss Marple's Nephew's Double Mysteries

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Agatha Christie, 
   Agatha Christie slights through half her years,

pens a fictional, Miss Marple,
   a Miss Jane Marple by...

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A meeting was held 
Buzz was getting ready to tell 
Information that were facts 
Making people pack 
Since they got sacked 
When the canary entered the hive 
Already dungeon arrested in his dive 
Worker bees...

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God hath provoked man with many challenges about this globe.
One of them requires the patience of a long-suffering Job!
Ensconced with fishing pole in hand on a grassy bank,
Waiting interminably for those wily fishes to yank!

Whether...

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A need that is hidden by a shadow
shouldn't allow anybody to stoop low.

My search for the truth leads me to a discovery:
the longing for a shiny light, the yearning for God
is felt at times of...

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Reading in bed, she has a drink, and the ripple widens.
A drop falls in the kitchen sink, and the ripple widens.

Supported, a little girl in the pool floats in his arms,
blowing bubbles as her fears...

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It is morn in the countryside late in the spring,
and the lake is so placid and birds they all sing.
All the flowers in bloom and the air is so clean;
not a day that’s so lovely...

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Buried here is the weather man J. P. Blithing
Forgot his brolly and got struck by lightning

In this vault is the flat coffin of J.J. Stowler
Fell into the path of a runaway steam roller 

In this...

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If You Say Today, I Feel Happy;
                If You Say Today I Feel Fine!

Then Before You Start To Go Shopping,

Take...

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Who is your favorite family member? Jerry Stringer asks me.
I look around the stage and out in the audience, seeing many expectant faces.
My husband, three daughters, two sons-in-law,
ten grandchildren, spoiled dog and cat.
I am my...

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fishing excitement great,
landing one is fun,
to the water I must go,

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on the bank I do stand,
baiting my hook and casting the pole,
watching for line dance,

~*~

moments of time tick,
awaiting a fish to bite,
fishing pole jerking,

~*~

pulling to...

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(A hullabaloo in hotel Astor)


                          My wife was flat-chested I...

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