Long Surveyor Poems

Tasting Africa (One L****ick at a Time) Part 1
(Though the title's a joke, my limericks are not!)

1. Life's Always an Adventure (Morogoro)
Can one's life be that safe when all live in a zoo -
Friend on...

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I have so many places/acts dear to my heart
I’m just dying to share some with you
Not to boast, I but honor them, all played a part,
I'm sure helped to bring me in your view!

Tell me...

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Himalayas

Eons ago in the planet’s evolution,
During tectonic plate movement: 1
The Indian Island Ma moved northward
Crashing into the Eurasian continent,
To form the Himalayan mountains. 2

Out of the chaos, towering peaks arose,
Piercing heavenly soft, white cotton clouds,
Bursting...

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Convalescence of Richard McGeehan

Spouse of my eldest sister
marital bond fixed in place
strong as mortise and tenon,
he hales of hearty Irish stock
genes of said septuagenarian
analogous to pith and marrow
wrought courtesy divine providence.

At present aforementioned brother in...

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Nature made convenient sluice, 
when pool water did wend
     down the gentle slope 
     describing gargantuan wetsuit vend
 
er steadily chugging, chiseling, 
    ...

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Availing the services expert surveyors is something that one must opt for if you want to get an asbestos survey done and also want to save some time and money in the process. During the...

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Atlanta is better described these days as: A T L A N T A S E R

1. Because Rayshard Brooks was killed for being tough enough - & drunk but innocent & cooperative with cops...

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I bought a piece of land, for my family and me,
to build a perfect home on a plot beside the sea.
 
I employed a local Surveyor to help draw up the plans,
to build my family dream...

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I should be entitled to a free Lifetime Premium Membership according to my wife and friends around me. My father CPO Arthur Frederick Horn was killed on active duty on the Carrier Intrepid after 20...

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               Azura de'palls the grid, 
surveyor on placebo crystal pillar lampstand, 
mid eyeing treeline,
at curmudgeon sky.
Angels filter embrionic ether sift of...

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...The two men confirmed Fred went for his gun,
and the captain just let the whole thing be,
Lyle got up and walked out to the deck,
in the fresh air he felt able to breath.

He paced up...

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There was a surveyor who saw an old box on a piece of land,
Who investigated and found it was a treasure trove in the sand.
He hid the chest in the earth beside the most distinct...

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POETS 
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POETS 
POETS 
Some people are just different some people are just blessed 
Some people are not better more humble than the rest of people seem 
Some people make a stab at things unseen...

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When we speak today we tend to look at words as a necessary constant with limitations of their own rather than a completely different cosmos in which we have the ability to traverse and discover.

Take...

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My blue Monday occurred 30 years ago
I being due to get wed a second time
But had to sell my house before that
time was running out for my last dime

It had been on sale for a...

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SURVEYOR OF THE STORM

Today’s early afternoon is somber-gray.
Red, white, blue, cherry willow, stars.

A single lightning bolt, in downward zigzag,
striking, alongside the bark of a crépe myrtle.*

Loose leaves sliding down oil-slicked street.
Goodnight skies rise into the...

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Life is so uncertain, of that I‘m sure you will agree,
So I’d like to take time, to send a Thank You up to thee;
Thank You for my Friends, that are always there for me,
Thank You...

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Cramped steps acquaint heavy hatch reluctant 
     Cushion hush cellar isolate, harsh sun migraines
     Catapulted myopic into apocalyptic destruction 
     Crumple of coastal...

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I get paid driving a huge farm tractor
with sideline job as chiropractor;
I massage and I soothe muscular pains,
move vital circulation through your veins.

Though I never trained in orthopedics,
I've got skills similar to the medics;
sprained joints,...

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Stargazing cigarette ash, growing cold and greyer, 
shaping to a scale model Everest 
in a cut crystal tray; 
a mountain to be climbed by some quantity surveyor, 
or a podium of passiveness 
in cloudbursts of...

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he was the oddest surveyor elf I had ever met
seemed weirdly familiar, strange too, and yet….
I was drawn to his ways, and watched him with pride.
As he measured and wrote down stuff he did hide.

what...

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Was it a summer storm of sexuality?
Only the chaste statue stood in threads,
and then went down the cuticle
with nipple rings.
The demand of namelessness was rising

in the dim shadows of brisk tones.
To step down from sanity,...

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I lay quietly in a cradle of sand
         Warmed by the glow of sun’s affection
Soothed by a salt water lullaby
     An ardent surveyor...

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I get paid driving a farm tractor
  with sideline job as chiropractor;
    I massage, soothe muscular pains,
      move circulation through your veins;

though never trained in orthopedics,
...

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Oh, you mighty winged wonder,
Drifting on a balmy breeze.
Across clover scented air,
And over deep salty seas.

Light as a feather you fly,
Surveyor of lands below.
Through mountain passes you glide,
Withstanding the caps of snow.

Now landing and perched...

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