Long Tables are turned Poems

Everything that you are happens for a reason.
With each passing thought is a change of season.
 In spring it feels like anything can grow.
The reason becomes just part of the show.

All that I am is...

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Heathen warriors dressed in the plaid
Victims of time and an evil brigade
Pursue their beliefs far into the South
Gaelic words from a Jacobite mouth

Like bairns against many a gun
The highlanders decided to run
Not for home and...

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'Tis another moonlit night.
My prey is within my sight.
His thinking, that was his mistake
That I, alone was his to just take.

Oh but the tables are turned
As it is his flesh that is burned.
He watched me...

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If only you knew what you did today,
Would it all change words of yesterday?
Or did it all happen just so you’d learn? 
You can see better as the tables are turned.

The lessons we learn seem...

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They come in all shapes and sizes, large and small
Just trying to get through this world, trying to survive
But they all have one trait
Beaten down to the ground, once stood tall
Might be crawling, but still...

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DOG DAY AFTERNOON

Old hound takes a nap in the shade of the trees
No pep, no sap, no afternoon breeze

He's much too lazy to chase the neighborhood cat
Who sauntered on by, and smugly sat

She taunts and...

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DO YOU REALLY CARE?
Dr. Jim Martin

In olden days folks seemed to care
About friends and strangers everywhere
Though things were often in short supply
There seemed enough to “make it by.”

An attitude of community seemed to prevail
Especially in...

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In olden days folks seemed to care
About friends and strangers everywhere
Though things were often in short supply 
There seemed enough to “make it by.”

An attitude of community seemed to prevail
Especially in times of great travail.
Being...

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Horror Story.

Wife’s gone to bed, there’s a spooky sound
Still scared of the dark when no one’s around
I hear her snore in the room above, 
A reassuring growl, is just enough
In the film a killer is...

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I gathered the rakes...
for leaves had covered everything

I gathered the limbs and made up my mind
My dad is 82 years young and it is all left up to me now

Spring is in the air, and...

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Why am I here, what's in it for me
All this black and white is there anything else to see
What's behind those doors, let me escape
Black or white I don't want one choice
There's nothing in it...

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as fair as fair goes
a fair is a place
where people take rides
if you are expecting fair
you'll be taken for a ride
equality you say don't be fooled
nothing ever measures up
when you pit one thing against another
nothing...

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GETTING PAID 

It is often said
You may get paid 
In your own coins.
That happens when
The tables are turned
And the fingers are burnt.

On the tower to stay
A heavy price you pay
To make a designed foray
Across many...

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So many people with so much to say
Seeking notability increases their way
With each other they'll all compete
Top position is what they seek
Wanted to be known as only the best
Strong contenders rise above the rest
Starting gossip...

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