Long Terrell Poems

Remember what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
Don't stop believing in the strength that lies inside,
get up, stand up until you can stand no longer.
You gotta be strong against the fools who misguide.

Don't stop believing...

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There’s a universe in my library
Where I often rest within,
Beginning with cosmology 
Where the mystery of life begins...

In space and time in books you’ll find  
On a shelf upon a wall,
Near biology and chemistry...

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If I could write the perfect poem
I’d write it high above,
The stars would be my letters 
And the first word would be love. 

Love because it brought me here
And has never let me down,
Despite the...

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Christmas was over  
the cold winter winds
blew and blew
the sadness grew.

Mother had passed
A time dreaded for 
ever so long.
I tried ever so hard 
to be strong.

I walked into her home
where she once gathered
her most...

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Hello God, are you there?
I’ve been searching for you everywhere.
Starting out in my mother’s womb 
Not very long ago,
When my life was barely beginning 
Before I began to know…

Anything about you 
And this world I...

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It was raining when I woke up early this morning and it’s expected to rain all day.  The temperature outside is in the low fifties; cold and gloomy and perfectly in line with how...

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I laid my head down, upon blanket of cotton weave.
Maybe soft like the one Jesus was wrapped, in a swaddling sleeve.
It was at last Christmas tomorrow, an this was the eve.
But in Santa I no...

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In the yard across the way there stands a young delightful maple tree. 
Oh in the hot summer......when the hot breeze blows, I watch it as it sway it's green whipfull 
leaves, blowing with the...

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I Never Really Knew My Dad (A Memorial Day Tribute) 

I never really knew my dad
As well as I wish I might;
He was a sailor in World War II
In the great Pacific fight.  

He...

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Who are you and who am I
and could it be we’re kindred spirits 
deep inside?  
And I wonder if this life’s a dream, the matrix 
of an endless scheme
begotten long ago, 
when time was...

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Was sitting today
at my computer.
as greatly learning 
from a tutor.

So much 
fun on facebook.
quite time
in my little
computer nook.

I was commenting
with some 
silly friends.
had to stop and wipe
my glasses lens.

I clicked
my mouse 
again and again
gazed at...

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I don’t know where resilience comes from
But it seems to be in short supply -  
There was a time when “true grit” meant something 
But for too many that idea died.

Complaining and playing the...

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Most people aren’t blessed with all the zest 
Of money, power and fame,
But live their lives in “quiet desperation,”
As Thoreau once famously claimed. 

As for me I once believed 
I was headed toward the stars,
But...

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If it were not for our human attributes;
good nature,
loving attitudes, 
loving relationships,
caring personalities,
and too our love for the Lord.
We might be on this earth, 
no more than an unorganized cluster of ants,
to follow one another,...

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Someone near and dear to me 
Has a child with Downs Syndrome,
Who, more often than not
Is beyond difficult to control.

The little boy is six years old 
But acts as if he’s two,
He can’t speak at...

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I walked into the kitchen,
Would it be turkey or chicken?

A debate was about to unflold,
I, now to tackle it so bold.

To fix a well planned meal,
soon to be a really big deal.

So to the store...

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                             You were with me last spring
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I remember her quite clearly
As if only yesterday,
In my mind I loved her dearly
But she was miles and miles away.

Up there above the tree line
Where only pure beauty can go, 
And no one like me...

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There’s something about poetry that grips me
Like gravity does the moon, 
While I keep trying to let it go
It treats me like a loon.  

As if I can’t control myself 
And these urges in...

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Little Alice
torn dress,
tears streaming,
gumdrops and love,
to her denied.

Little Alice
sits alone,
to view the rest,
wondering why,
Why do the children
to her protest.

Little Allice
cries out loud,
Don't they know, 
it is not right,
for her parents,
to yell and fight.

Little Alice 
bruses...

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Santa did you see the left over cake I left you last year,
Papa says you like to drink beer
I awoke while ago it was spilled on the floor
I heard some noises in the night
I was...

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Cherokee spirts riding in the clouds
Cherokee winds crying out loud                         ...

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I don’t know how I lived so long 
without poetry by my side
to uphold enfold and console me 
as time went passing by

how did I miss the gentle kiss 
of rhythms all around 
the sound...

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