Long Tyme Poems

Spider’s Rigging
“I had resolved on a voyage around the world, and as the wind
on the morning of April 24, 1895 was fair, at noon I weighed
anchor, set sail, and filled away from Boston, where the...

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"TO ME' US IS LIKE" 
WrittenBy: BillyMalloy

?TO ME' US IS LIKE?, that exact moment in time, when two glances meet and every lasting love is manifested between two faith ridden souls or a second to...

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Once upon a tyme, an old ladie,
Gallant, gay, in spirite and thought,
Would often go alone to market and shoppe.

Alas! One day, stroke fell upon that soule,
No oxygen for hours resulted in dispaire.
As she lay calling...

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A mariner went a'pon the sea
To find his fair lass a pearl
So he in grand fettle 
Gathered his mettle 
And let his ship's sails unfurl

No able for the deed so tough
The mariner would pey the...

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Im Building my own teepee made from straw Logz 
I try n keep up with my cats but how can I when I cant even trust my own dogz 
I know I have a hard...

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6 fillets of sea bass
cup  of melted butter
2/3 cup of flour
(7 tablespoons of cornmeal)  (seasoned)
 dash of cayenne pepper
sprinkle fish in cayenne, coat with butter both sides
dredge in flour-cornmeal mixture
bake until browned about...

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serving up sum o dat fooreel dough stuff
track one on love
cast the night these folks
love one another
summa tyme jam boar ree!
corner jerk, the ritual
stand up and sing
better love next tyme
let the player do his thang,
shuck...

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We use to know
Howt o put thinggs down.
People gowin roundd,
Their lives tied behindt em by a spyne of brown strings.

You know we use to know howter kill cows
Wid the back af wharrever, hacking instrument hong...

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TAKE SOME IME AND READ BETWEEN THE LINES
NUTURE THOSE WORDS WHICH NEED NUTURING
CAUSE ATTENTION TO THE PARTS THAT NEED TO
HAVE ATTENTION, ONE VERSE LEAD TO ANOTHER
AND BUILDS-UP TO CLIMAX AND RESTART THE CHORUS
IN THE VERSE...

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TRAITS AND SIMULARITES MADE US
THINK OF HIM AS WE DID, THE 
PERSON WE CHAMPIONED
ONE LACKED THE ABILITY
 TO CREATE A CAUSE FOR
PEOPLE TO LOVE HIM
THE OTHER EXSIST AS WE ARE
TO CHAMPION HIM AS CAUSE
ONE HORSE...

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2 pie crust
two butterflied chicken breast fillets

to make a stuffing
puree ten medium shrimps, 1/2 stick of butter four tablespoons of white wine, 3 chopped green onions
cayeene pepper,  1/2 cup of heavycream, white pepper, 1/4...

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Hitting up the club is not a new thing.
Every tyme I go something new the night will bring.
Saw him, eyes connected ryte away.
A new victim, yes he is my prey.
Met in the middle of the...

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MacJock looked uptight

When we said "That's not right,

We're not paying one pence you see" 

Den Finn swung and missed

With his powerful fist

And it landed on the jaw of McGee

MacJock grabbed a bottle

Intending to throttle

The closest...

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I was once on the block doin nothin but chasing dreams 
bein a shadow to a phantom you kno what i mean. 
my goals were only one an that was make it thru the day...

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Poor Rich Me 
Many People Died. 
Aids and polio, 
wars and situations bye the score. 
Death and pestilence and disease. 
Eye am free of these. 
His Namme is Jesus. 
Only explaination eye can see. 
God...

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shaved roasted pork butt
about 10 pounds (cooked rare and shaved)

in a large pot combine
3 cups of diced onions
1/4 cup of minced garlic
 4 tablespoons of salt
3 tablespoons of cayenne pepper
2 tablespoons of tyme
1 tablespoon of...

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My Inventory:

flashlights
high-performance yo-yo
poetry books
fishing poles
ice-fishing hut
regret
pocket knife
sharpening stones
laughter
boomerangs
passwords
life's artifacts
Grandpa's Fishing Hat
hope and joy
Guardian Angel
wooden snow-sleds
more poetry books
olde-tyme-radios
compassion
camping gear
Babar, the Stuffed-Elephant
Angel-in-a-basket
imagination
McCoy Cookie Jars
nature field-guides
forgiveness
Soup-friends
ties I don't wear
family heirloom recipes
suits I try not to wear
treasured photographs
170 poems
antique...

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Once again trapped in the darkness with worded guns still trapped, 
Im just trying to make a statement that will make it on this American map, 
Im getting old as I only live this youth...

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MAKE ME FEEL RIGHT
                WHEN I'M BLUE
          SPEAKS HER LOVE TO...

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Reed Four Sound
(a homophobic poem)
By Franklin Price
4/26/2015

Reed four sound 
Knot Goode grammar
Here watts hear
On my pinned paige
Eye right it hear
Fore ewe two sea
Cud bee a song 
a dough ray me

By sum tyme
Minutes oar ours
Mite knead...

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