Long Tyrone Poems

from island corner, big Antrim lad
  to Belfast city, a tiny pad
  shattered windows, tilted clocks
  Goliath had lost his socks
  gargantuan giant going mad

  Armagh apple girl, any topic
...

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I hate my life 
My souls are damaged it’s full of pure hell that I can’t take it back it’s like listening to that awful country depression music that you can’t stand and you just...

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Terence a Griffiths of Tyrone or Leitrim!
Did he know but later of 1820 he would be there born
A Flax Grower a renter from landlords of Lord Leitrim's domain
To thresh and sack and cloth and sow...

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The Gate
Story by  and character by Tyrone Estevez

You never know what’s out there lurking and escaping on the other side of the gate I remember when I was 11 I had a friend name...

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(She hugs her man...)
I'm not gonna let my intuition 
Rule my judgement on this
"Hey baby, I missed you so much.
How was your flight???"
     (He sighs and looks into her eyes...)
I can't...

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Robin Hood, man in tights
Julius Caesar, might makes right
Alexander, called "the Great"
Sitting Bull, righteous hate
Robert the Bruce, Attila the Hun
Charlemagne, Napoleon

Hear the call of the alpha male!
Warriors leave a bloody trail.

George Washington, man on the...

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Northern Ireland, it was a peaceful Saturday of August 15,
1998. There were many people shopping in the center of
Omagh, in Tyrone. Then, at 3:10 p.m., the car bomb
exploded close to the junction of Market Street...

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A Statistic

Sometimes I feel tired of being in my own skin....feeling overwhelmed with sin that’s not my own...sorrow overbearing with thoughts of black teenagers that will never be grown...men, and woman dying as children...because they...

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This feeling buried under my skin when love hits me makes me itch like a fein for 
dope I dont know how to explain the things that love will have you doing 
somethings become to...

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ponytails,pretty in pink,candy canes 
and ice cream treats!She's eight year
and care free.
She has some days some good, bad,
and in between .
She's not a teen just the typical eight
Money is tight and the bills are due.It
takes...

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Swashbuckling, piracy, Tyrone, Errol and yes, Rathbone.
All actors that rode the Spanish Main called the sea home.
Stories of Robinson Crusoe to Mysterious Island.
Fantasy stories with a moral, it’s for enjoyment for man.

Plenty of men have...

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A kiss,  A  Whip   They  spit,   I hit this is the life that I do not wish 
a scar on my face disgrace can someone bring me a...

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Brenda is pretty, Brenda is sweet
She’s not very big, in fact she’s petite.

Brenda’s creative, now that’s a surprise
She has a good wit and has opened my eyes.

She’s cruel to a point,, my blunder she extols,
The...

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T Rex - a compendium

I asked the T Rex why he looked rather glum
He said I’ve this lovely sharp claw on my thumb
But life's such a b.itch
My butt’s got an itch
And I simply can’t reach...

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They were Lilly Whites from Kildare,
And Boggers from County Clare,
Herring Gutters from Donegal
And Dubliner Jackeens.
They were Goat Suckers, Slaneysiders,
Magpies and Rossies.
They were Kellys, and Murrays, 
O’Carrols, and Moores,
They were Campbells, MacMurphys, and Dunns.
One claimed he’s...

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Memory, it takes me to years back,
When you protected us from the dark,
These tears for you I roll,
While my phone gallery I scroll,
Staring at the pictures imagining of course,
How elegant we pose with you in...

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Tyrone and the Black Dog

Tyrone was a young man;
He wanted to have fun.
He was from a seedy part of town;
But he didn’t own a gun.

"Black dog quit your growling,
Don’t come around here anymore.
I got no...

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Memories of those who passed,
fading faces in the mist.
The ruddy flesh of the youth,
Who have just been first kissed! 

The old schoolhouse still stands,
the students are all ghosts.
Those I didn't think I'd miss,
are some I...

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The Wall

No Future is the worst and so,
I’ll dream of places I will go,
Fantasies are for such as I,
Facing the wall, the wall.

Tomorrow I’ll drive to California,
Oh, the flivver’s old but full of gas,
What’s stopping...

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The bills are doubled, my rent is due, my body aches I got the blues.
My car is wrecked, my son need shoes; what a day to have the blues.
My man is gone; I feel so...

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