Long Totalled Poems

Traditional Solitaire potential combinations...

that clenched another win today
February 20th, 2024 
(eight hundred and ninety yesterdays ago 
since June 13th, 2021)
original crafting date of following poem,
when yours truly 
single handedly trumped computer, 
for umpteenth time,
which saw...

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Traditional Solitaire potential combinations...
that clenched another win (yahoo)
jimmied today August 15th, 2022 single handedly
just before the crack of dawn
with both hands tied behind my back,
and a blindfold worn over my eyes.

While in the midst of...

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Traditional Solitaire potential combinations...
that clenched another win (today June 13th, 2021) single handedly

While in the midst of playing solitaire 
(with losing outcome foreordained 
after a couple moves), I became gripped 
with combinations predicated on thirteen...

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About several years ago

I had a car accident in my sporty fancy car

the car was clean and full with gas

I stopped to make a left turn

a few miles away from home

on that day, I was...

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FRED THE PERV.

Kinky Fred stole knickers off the line
One summer night his haul totalled nine
His spree ended in tears
Got an extra ten years
When Judge Sue said that red pair were mine.

LARS.

A young astronaut from NASA...

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In an old Victorian building live two cats and a lady,
The girl cat is Patches and the boy cat is called Peanut;
And the lady is called mother, they all live in harmony.
One day, mother decided...

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Continued from The Eye of the Sea part 4

Becalmed we were for three days more,
Then the wind began to rise,
At the Captain’s bidding, we set to the rigging,
Eyes firmly upon the prize.

But, ‘Something’s awry!’ the...

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In the corner of a pawn shop, blanketed in dust
stood a damned old used guitar; for a twenty, was a must.

Walking out the door with it slung across my back
I saw a young man with...

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"The boy's got a broken brain!
- Fix him for me now,
I can't do a thing with him."

     - So I hear you say,
     Though he seems intelligent...

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My Busy Angels

Maybe because I’m serving others and their pet friends, 
several angels follow me daily saving my hide.

On my way to pet sit, 
my car has been hit from the front, 
the back and...

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We came down from the hills, our hearts were full of sorrow
The enemy had totalled us, were ready for a fight 
Six weary soldiers on the hillside, not waiting for tomorrow
The battle it had drained...

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Thai By
This place gets under your skin. Slowly creeping in like black Texas gold. I said I'd never partake in the cat house girls. Seeing them each day for eighteen months was routine. Walking past...

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How much do I love you? 
Defies to be measured by devices of man, 
Nor gauged by time or calendar span; 
Assessed or totalled, correlated, 
Added, subtracted, calculated. 
For the depth and breadth of all...

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What is left at the end (please insert she for he where needed)……

How he was remembered 

He always looked me in the eye
When I would drop by
And then he would say
What was needed on that...

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