Long Swedes Poems

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Premium Member Poltava

King Charles is a foolish megalomaniac.
He constantly sends his armies to the attack.
In the first few years of the eighteenth century,
Swedes have attacked Russia, Denmark, and Saxony.
Sweden exerts its regional hegemony
over the smaller states around the Baltic Sea.
Denmark was overwhelmed by the Swedish army.
We suffered defeat at the Battle of Narva.
Sweden’s military presence threatens Russia.
Charles the Twelfth and the Swedes have refused to refrain
as their forces have encroached upon our Ukraine.
I, Peter your tsar, shall lead our mother Russia.
We shall take a stand and fight at Poltava.
This is our beloved land that we must defend.
We must bring Swedish aggressiveness to an end.

This battle was fought between the Russians and Swedes during the Great Northern War in 1709.  It forever changed the courses of both countries.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Mum Loves War

The hophead at the
Music festival next to me
Yells out the instruction
"Everybody shrink!"

The lead singer holds parallel
To the audience an elongated
Truncheon with a dishwashing
Glove on the end of it

A manakin dummy is tossed
Into the congregation and
It crowdsurfs it's way back
Tossed out the exit 

'Insistent savagery'
The 1956 edition 
Of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Describes rock 'n' roll 

Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her
Mass of the Fermenting Dregs
Abingdon Boys School 
North Korea Loves John Kerry

Cutlery
The Bad Swedes
Deathwasps Stinging My Brain
I Am the Hottest Part of Hell 

It's exhausting picking
A band name

Premium Member Parallel Are the Rails

PARALLEL ARE THE RAILS 

(PRE-VERSE 1)
Feeling all alone
Cast away like a stone

Few friends what I got
True friends can’t be bought.

(VERSE 1)
Living is a joke
Think I’m about to choke.
Lookin’ at you
Lookin’ at me
Mirror is true (but the reflection is cracked)
False truths won’t set you free.

(Pre-Chorus)
I got my time
I got my rhyme
Beggin’ for a dime
Beggin’ for your time

(Chorus)
Bittersweet is the love (Sweeter than the lime)
Smellin’ like a clove 
Burnt up in a stove
Rotting in a grove
Shrapnel of hardened nails
Pouring down like the rain
Storing away the parlayed pain
Parallel are the rails 
Parallel are the rails
Parallel are the rails
Parallel are the rails
Parallel are the rails




(PRE-VERSE 2)
Heavy is the stone
When you’re all alone

Many friends were not what I thought
False friends are easily bought

(VERSE 2)
Drowning in the smoke 
Deception is no joke
Reflection of you
Reflection of me
Mirror is true (but the reflection is cracked)
False truths won’t set you free.

(BRIDGE)
Dreaded are my locs 
Dreadful are my thoughts
Locked away in my cerebral box
Cast away like abandoned lots

Got dreadlocks down below my needs 
Beatles in the sound
Help me get around
Got hair like my ancestral Swedes 

Brain damaged by Floyd
Brain examined by Freud 



(PRE-VERSE 3)
Can I get a fix
Feelin’ a little sick
Like when I was six
Trippin’ over a stick

People like to stare
Like I’m some disease 
But, I don’t care
I do as I please

(VERSE 3)
Ridin’ on a train 
Lookin’ for a change
Freedom from the chain
Leaves me feeling strange

Lookin’ a little strange
Beaten by the chain
No time for change
Ridin’ on a train 

(Pre-Chorus)
I got my time
I got my rhyme
Beggin’ for a dime
Beggin’ for your time

(Chorus)
Bittersweet is the love (Sweeter than the lime)
Smellin’ like a clove 
Burnt up in a stove
Rotting in a grove
Shrapnel of hardened nails
Pouring down like the rain
Storing away the parlayed pain
Parallel are the rails
Parallel are the rails
Parallel are the rails
Parallel are the rails
Parallel are the rails


Lyricists Inc. 
D.A.P. / Digital Analog Productions. 
David A. Porter	3/??/18
Form: Lyric

Premium Member My Country Tis of Thee

White stars, red and white stripes.
	Blue for loyalty.
Waving in the wind, instilling pride.
	Reminding us of pledge.
		Apple pie, Chevrolet, John Wayne.

Viet Nam, Gulf War, 
	Freedom of speech, freedom riders,
                               Free to think, free to be the best we can be.

Texas, California, Iowa, from sea to shining me.
	State pride, rawhide, courageous side.

A cultural mix unheard of before the Pilgrims landed, and the Natives
                      Took pity and helped them live.

Thanksgiving, 4th of July, Veterans of Foreign Wars, 
	Germans, French, Italians, Scots, Swedes, African Americans.
		All Americans, all united in that.

911 Hero pride.
	Sacrifices.  Pride to all of us, they were Americans.

All for one, a nation under God, my Country Tis of Thee


8/27/2018	  My Country Tis of Thee Contest                 Sponsor:  Brahn Bailey

Amoeba Men

Written By:  D. Collins 12/13/25


Both houses of Congress show us Amoeba Men.
The shape-shifting, bowing down of Republicans.
Lacking a spine that is found in all humans.
Deceitfully calling themselves devout Christians.


At Christmas dinner what do they say to their daughters?
When asked if they consider themselves a man or father?
What level of respect do they actually think they deserve?
When women in Congress have more conviction and nerve.


They were silent when Nords/Swedes were invited to come live.
And some daughters seated at the table have bi-racial kids.
Total disgust and disrespect is wholeheartedly deserved.
By neglecting the many of people they were elected to serve.


Premium Member Didactic Alphabet Soup

Alphabet soup, homemade, here's how
Begin the dish with alphabet pasta and homemade chicken broth
Coriander is next, chopped finely and bruised in cloth
Dice some carrots and parsnips, add chopped swedes as well
Endives and onions tickle the taste buds, create aroma for smell 
Fennel bulbs and feathery fronds add pique and intrigue
Grate some Parmesan, add mace and cumin, for spicy blitzkrieg
Heat on high to just before boiling, then reduce heat and simmer gently on low
Insert a spoon and swirl to see perchance what the letters spell out on surface floe
'Just' eat the better half of all meals on your plate
'Keep' snacks at bay by banning from pantry, making temptation abate
'Lessen' you loaf time by walking, running, cycling an hour each day
'Make' wholesome meals, with whole fresh foods and vegetable buffet
'No' more quick junk food fixes to cure feeling-down and depressed
'Or' between meal snacks when hunger pangs bite and diet gets stressed
'Portion' control is far easier that counting calories each time you eat
'Quell' your calories by skipping lunch or one other meal, and each day repeat
'Regular' fasting far easier than eating dietary greens and stuff with no appeal
'Sociably' better, sharing main meal with family, friends, bypassing diet exclusion ordeal
'To' make sure you keep on track to lose weight, eating less and keeping slim
'United' plan and pledge to make durable lifestyle changes to become terrific and trim
'Verily' to keep to your plan, to keep from being beaten
'Waiting' no more to make it happen
'Xeroxed' copies of Mediterranean Diet Recipes at the ready
'Yearning' to be slim and terrific with weight steady
'Zapping' through each day with gusto
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member All Women Over Forty Are Dried Up

Absurd situations amuse me; they get written into poems.
Foolish generalizations about groups of people infuriate me; 
they also get written into poems.
All Irish, all whites, all English, all red-heads, there is no all.  
It makes not a whit of sense.

But the one thing that has gotten my goat faster than any other thing?
“All women over forty are dried up.”  Yes, I know. It is crazy, but I heard it.
When I was forty-four, twenty-two years ago, and it still irritates me.

When I think of it, which is not often, I relish in the thought that the man who used it is incarcerated now, using all kinds of other silly sayings, 
that probably get him whooped daily.

He loved to generalize groups of people. “All men in their twenties, 
all Swedes, all people who wear overalls, all women who wear gloves…”

I soak myself in friendly waters, not worrying about this stuff usually.  
Tonight I slathered my worn-out self in a luxurious lavender bath when I thought of it again.

It is weird how the most random stupid things will pop into your head, irritating you at odd times.

Sweden today

Sweden today
 
What happened to Sweden throwing off her neutrality like it was an old overcoat and to make matters worse joining old NATO, that is a moribund military organization.
I remember Ingrid Bergman, a great actress when I see her, I wonder, why Ricky had 
a nightclub in Casablanca 
There were many famous Swedes, such as Alfred Nobel, and Ingmar Bergman, and not forget Birgitte Nielsen married to an actor named Rocky Stalone, a screen hero
I remember Malmo where I bought coffee cups
With flowers on, now this town is full of angry belligerent Islamists wanting to enforce Shari law and run around with big knives
Of course, there is the forever teenager Greta Thunberg who wears a permanent scowl when marching in protest against the EU or if not something else; one wishes, she would fall in love, have sex with a young man, and go back to school
© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.

Guns In Sweden

Guns in Sweden 
 
Sweden has problems with too many guns
shoots hole in the night.
Many refugees came to Sweden, who thought
when the refugees discovered a Nordic paradise
they would become Swedes overnight.
The inhabitance of this Eden has a discriminatory heart.
The glance of an eye tells the truth.
There was a clash of culture.
People of the same philosophy likes to live close to each other, 
for them, Sweden has a cold heart.
No work no education, guns are easy to buy.
I don´t know the solution
Perhaps the Nordic people, are too regimented
and it will take time to change this attitude.
© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member October 9th through the years

October 9 is  the 283rd day this year
In history many died and she'd tears
1594  Portuguese empire defeated in Sri Lanka
Bringing an end to the campaign of danture 

1604 kepplers supernova found in the milky way
Who says you need modern science today
The swedes defeated in 1708
Battle of lesnaya won by Peter the Great

At least 1000 ethnic Chinese natives killed in Batvia
1740 Dutch colonist started this massacre
1806 prussia starts war with France
Throughout the years you can see wars at a glance

In 1834 the first public railway opened in Ireland
1847 slavery abolished in Swedish colony
No more children orphaned
The people having more life quality

1900 the cook islands became a uk territory
1911 the Wuchang uprising against the Quing Dynasty
1914 The siege of of antwerp comes to an end
1918 Prince frederick Charles offered throne of Finland

The next few years see many massacres and assanations 
It's as though the world was under fascination
In reality it brought loss, death and hatred
No-one realising that being alive is sacred

1980 Pope John Paul the second meets the dalai lama
Hopefully the world will become calmer
1981 capital punishment abolished in France
Finally someone taking a positive stance

But alas wars are still declared and lives lost
Decisions made by people who try to boss
The world being destroyed by the human race
Remember we are visitors and can open the case

We need to protect this planet where we reside
Think about futer generations don't hide
Stand up and be counted
Keep this planets peace firmly mounted

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