Long Tongs Poems

Unquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV Part Two
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The first signs reek tell-tale
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Unquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV
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Venite
Come let us sing to the Lord;*
let us shout for joy to the Rock of our salvation.
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving*
and raise a loud shout to him with psalms.
For the Lord is...

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(1.)  Honoring John Keats
, fifth poet in my dedication series

Oft From A Distant Echo, It Is Heard

At the start comes just a solitary word
oft from a distant echo, it is heard.
Imagination steps on into...

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As I neared home I went by the water works that stood for years behind the ice plant. That’s where the water for the city was processed and I remember how clean and clear the...

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Lipstick Girls
                 By Stark Hunter and D Lee

1.	“When the Lipstick Girls Walk By”

You can push and shove your way,
Past...

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Made in Sheffield by Steven Cooke

Its Early Morning, a mist descends into the valley.
Not a Mist, from some love poem, but a fog forged in graft.
No sun shines here, for there is no welcome.
For here...

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One dark and dreary night many, many moons ago
myself and a friend coming home from the local disco
no names mentioned smiling . . .
and in the far distance we could see and hear three girls
laughing...

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A seething summer morning in the oil boom trailer park
Oral Roberts on the radio with the gospel told by Mark
The reek of raw petroleum is everywhere around
We little oil trash urchins play marbles on the...

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One dark and dreary night many, many moons ago
myself and a friend coming home from the local disco
no names mentioned smiling . . .
and in the far distance we could see and hear three girls
laughing...

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In our neighborhood during the second world war
At the side of each house were a porch and a door.
And, believe it or not, it was always unlocked
When a tradesman or stranger or visitor knocked.

Around dawn...

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It was a nightmare of a boat trip
I almost choked to death on an orange pip
They did not strain the juice well
And from a small pip, I gasped for air and started to swell
If it...

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Meat in my smokehouse a bit light,
With the weather about right,
One morning at first light,
I headed to buzzard roost hollow,
A leash on Brownie’s collar,

But Brownie went crazy as a goose,
When I turn him loose,
My worse...

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love is a lofty ideal 
croon of tenderness
sounds right, feels good
but how may we share
what we do not have

a hollow emptiness 
engulfs our body-mind
womb of space suffocates
we are uncomfortable 
in our own skin

being empowered
we pause...

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Heavy the hoods of the eyes
  that laboured the scan of horizons
Heavy the course of the thoughts
  that sat unstirred on the sill of the stare

Heavy this ancient bottomed nose
  sitting in...

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Mantis 


The Malaysian forest bears fruit of disguise. That powdery translucent pink circles the orchid mantis’ frame, measuring at six centimeters, about the size of an adult pinky finger. Her two black and clear patterned...

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i want to burn it all down
so it'll be so hot
i'll have to take it out with tongs.
i want to take it out
with my hands;
and know i'm still alive.
that's what.



a man needs to burn everything
to...

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For all the times I’ve felt alone,
And in the stench of gross cologne,
For the fear of my life story,
I still don’t like the name of Cory.
I write this poem to remind my self
To not hit...

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NEUER THE ACHILLES


Horse power?
Let the horses keep their power
Neuer power is now the toast of all


The day all cats chose their king
It was Tiger that first wore the crown
But Lion roared, bore his fangs
And bristled...

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3/15/17

Trees cut down by saws
Then chopped into logs

Some animals have paws and claws

And other do or don't have jaws

Wounds treated with or without gauze
Caused from being at odds

Some always follow or continually break laws

Does every...

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“JUST SAY YES!”
 Evelyn Pearl Anderson

Imagine seeing the LORD God
seated high on His throne
and exalted with His garment
train filling the temple zone

Bright seraphs are seen flying above
with two wings while two more
wings cover the face...

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Meteors fall in wastelands forgotten.
Poets, bards, sing. Taciturn, red, rotten.
Silver at twilight, seeing stones kept clear.
Seer, grind gear in the severe atmosphere.
Barren lands are kept on rare landscapes clean.
Winter, thy withering tendrils. Machine;
When do we...

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Our Christmas dinner was served,
With traditional veggies and meat,
It’s a roast with the usual crackle,
Plus gravy to make it complete.

And then it is time for the sweets,
It’s a pudding with personal pride
From a recipe of...

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"Kalapana Queens Bath was a hole in the ground filled with brackish water (salty seawater mixed with fresh mountain filled rainwater) and host to living mysteries," ... by The Poet.

It was a time free of...

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Ropin' and Ridin'


He don't have much hope
Of  learnin' to rope
Or bein' top hand on the Bar S spread.
That lasso don't go
Where he aims to throw
And ropin' a calf is harder than said.

He cain't build...

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