Long Supremes Poems

L'Overture


Lest we forget
Words often mouthed
For the dead of bloody war
Forgot not those great ones
Whose battles were on the home front
Seeking only equality of voice

Ray Charles to you was a singer
Backwards and long ago he was...

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Digital Creationism
(Man 0, God 1)         

Part 1: Binary God
For men it seems God is a binary function
And like ones and zeros 'HE IS ON or 'he's off.'
Is...

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Two decades of music were known as the golden age.
It was all the rage, the era from the 50s through the 70s
Motown, Rock and Roll, and Blues that touched my heart.
Listening to them always start...

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One leaf falls
holographic illusion
across time the Terminator travels
to shape Sarah Connors' destiny.
Heart attack
a common enough destiny
as common as young men discussing girls' tits.
The Constitution
is the document we refer to, the lodestone
to correct course and not...

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It’s funny how each generation thinks their music is the best
that the songs of their youth are the best songs…
and how each generation knows that they are right…
and every other generations out there must be...

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I sing a song of three.
There’s Larry, Curly, Moe;
the Ego and the Id
and the Super Ego.

Three Kings of the Orient
are known as three wise men.
Showing up at Christmas too
in song are three French hens.

Rock, paper,...

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Mae Baneda Jackson reigns
from her throne, 
a crate on the side 
of the crossway
before the feeder at
S610 at S288.
Her kingdom encompasses
a grassy knoll in
the greatest country in the world.
Like Nzinga, with cinders in her eyes,
She...

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The jukebox glowed, the records spun..
A brand-new age had just begun.
From ‘55 to ‘75,
Music soared, it came alive.

The blues and jazz still held their ground..
But rock and roll had found its sound.
Elvis shook and stole...

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“Your Life will be Filled with Magical Moments”
Now what more can be said except that anything is possible at any given moment. Probably the greatest example of something from nothing comes from the songwriters Galt...

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T his the mid-seventies, California,
O akland Airport Hilton Inn, town aura,
M idst Oakland Stadium Complex, airport.

H ospitality Senior Special sort.
A t nineteen, I worked as a front desk staff, 
N ear my location was the...

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Most everyone has heard
of the place I come from
They hear mostly bad news, sad news
Tragic Detroit black and blues
The crime,
the murders,
The violent riots
that constantly divides us
But I grew up during a special time,
when Detroit was...

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mr.X may have said,"By any means necessary." In elaborating, I'll say,"By any means necessary which is sensible, logical, rational, ethical, and most of all moral." Lately, all I'm starting to see is a Dead Sea....

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As I walk through the sands of the beach, I wonder if the love of my life

   will ever come into my life. Life is strange; you see many places of sands,
 ...

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It began on a high note
Dreams of a New Frontier
Those dreams were shattered in Texas
In the Fall of the same year
Christmas time was solemn
Before the storm there was the calm
We saw them escalate a war
Sending...

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Esteemed personages and jurists
let the oral arguments begin.

Sir, the legality of your position on this
most serious of matters
limps like a drunken duck.

Madam your logic has diminished,
it trips over its own dung,
it bleats like a flea...

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Full court press on the press 
an all out assault on speech 
verbose wit-nitts sowing deceit supremes masquerading liberators

an all out assault on speech 
university protest branded 
supremes masquerading liberators fabulist executive derided 

university protest...

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By rontwigger

Is there somebody who has an eagle's eye,
An eye that could see anybody's whereabouts?
Oh, I guess no mundane would say an aye.
For sure He scorns when someone flouts.

Is there an omniscient and supreme being,
Who...

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Cold 
~~~~
As the frigid winter zephyrs gently play
Amidst the warm hues of red orange heralds
Portends of the ending years eternal cycle
My mind escapes its temporal bonds
As I return to our happier times
Her smile is as...

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The super Supremes, are just one of the groups
Of Motown stars singing their style.
And do not forget the tempting Temptations
Who stayed on the top for awhile.
While The Supremes and Temps had various hits
And fans of...

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(For Rapper Sensation, Kanye West)
(On behalf of his Mother, the late, Dr. D. West)

Like a Child from its nightmares,
awakes and screams
Do I find Myself, going through
the Extremes
Of holding it All together, then
bursting at the seams
As...

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This year's sound is over
like an echo from the hills.
I'll only pray when the night comes
I'll stay only when you heal my pain.

You just closed the gate
You stole my hope
And for your promises I grope
to...

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Our forever Sky Dancer peace parades his Paradise dance on soaring 
silky clouds kissing a milky blue tender sky, sun on high, breezes on low
all giving way to cautioned Winds of a coming Change. That...

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Sixties music was so sublime.
It was bell bottomed trousers and Motown time.
The Tracks of My Tears and Ooh Baby, Baby
Our dances to our parents seemed crazy.

We would slow grind to Smokey’s croon
or do the jerk...

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