Long Up the creek Poems

Continued from FREEZER MICE

The cat had travelled straight from hell, a hell beyond the stars
The cat that theories claim once levied genocide on Mars
She now seeks vengeance on descendants of the primal shrew
Whoever knew that...

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It’s Cooper’s Creek we’re crossing here, Willis said to Burke
We need to have a base camp and this creek ought to work
I’ll put it in the journal, November 1861
It’s been four months since we started...

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So shall I be honest 
I was modest
You took it for granted 
I have a strong sense of being abandoned
I hope you know I hate to see you
Because every time I do I’m reminded how...

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Christmas 1952
By Franklin Price
12/24/2015

Christmas 1952, I'm almost sure that's right
Memory's a little clouded, it was Christmas eve at night
There was no tree with lights aglow, no presents I could see
Had Santa Claus forgotten us, especially...

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Bloody race horses! Flamin’ ‘Hilly’. He said he had the inside news
‘Put everything you own on it, the horse just cannot lose’.
To think I listened to him; he’s left me right up the creek,
‘cause now...

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I’d hang my head in shame
The day I stop querying the man in my mirror
Whose name I’d associate with blame
For daring to conceal the fear and tear

My conscience weeps as the man fails to keep
Promises...

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My Regular Day
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Poor House

I’m so tired but I’ll be working ‘til the last day of my life,
this disease just overwhelms me, I think I caught it from my wife.
I’ve got nothing for a rainy day or for...

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When I Become King

By Elton Camp

Note:  This poem contains a challenge
to writers.  

As soon as ruler I am crowned,
Many changes will come around
Peace or cancer cure I won’t say
As no king could do...

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Your lips are moving, mine are too
With stories and tales from all those years ago
But the more you say, the worse I feel
Because I never lived

I never lived

Tales of a romance born when you were...

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I remember the cabin by the lake in the wood
and Grandma giving us buckets, telling us we should
walk up the creek to get some water from the stream.
Remembering it now is almost like a dream.

No...

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School Uniforms in the Fifties

By Elton Camp

Some people have an idea they think is new
To tell students what to wear is what they do
“Wear a uniforms that is up to our dress code,
Or else you...

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There's always room for a little more Jesus in your life.....................


I'm tired of seeing the good die,
I know somebody that these crooks should try,
Because evil acts makes families in the hood cry,

See for sin you...

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Ravenous rats in our lives
Determined to nibble the nipples
Stabbed by knives
Cutting tenuous triples in ripples

Undulating and ululating
In horror
At the humiliating and excruciating
Error and terror

Erstwhile partners and associates
Commit or omit
To implicate affiliates
Whose remit

Captures, raptures and sutures...

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I can no longer touch my toes
Or stop an unexpected runny nose,
It has become an issue
To find a handkerchief or tissue.

My loo has moved
I am not sure
It seems farther away than it was before
I often...

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This poem belongs to me
I'm the Queen of poetry
With my pen poised in the air
I scribe words that can compare
With any poet
How do I know it?
I show it,
I sit here with pen in hand
No other...

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There is one question above all others,
That should be on all lips,
Irrespective of age, gender or personal belief,
If we don't want to end up at the bottom of the well,
Up the creek,
Or lost in space.

We...

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Once I wrote a verse about an earthquake in the town
I also wrote in detail of a comet coming down
How many words of war and peace have issued from my pen
I wrote a superhero gran...

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From his sweetie Dave took lots of guff
  'Cause his beard was mighty ruff
Too bad you get fewer kisses, Dave
  Try Burma Shave - its all the rave!

Do you sprout a very wild...

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Hello good people here I am
A minor break in the action
Things are relatively back to normal
Almost to our satisfaction

Lost no data, thanks to Poetry Soup
In this age of techie type gadgets
So dependant on a very...

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I kept all of my money in my mattress instead of a bank.
It was stolen last week and I only have myself to thank.
I have never trusted banks, that's why my mattress was stuffed.
I want...

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Our Border Is A Complete Disaster
Miracle Man
September 19, 2023

Each day that passes brings this country more grief,
and migrants coming illegally will be allowed to stay.
From this humanitarian crisis we’re getting no relief,
and the billions its...

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down the  stairs
down  the creek
creek is down
creek is flowing
flowing fast
flowing under
under glass
under pass
pass it over
pass it slow
slow poke
slow down
down and around
down for the count
count the money
count is under
under siege
under the sun
sun is hot
sun...

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(FND awareness)

Functional Neurological Disorder
Sounds far more serious than required.
However, life now makes more sense.
That's how it is. It's the way I'm wired.

I thought I had a medical "epsy"
Due to crazy symptoms that make one tired.
It's...

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As I sit alone old and gray
in the darkness of the night
I should be sad and sorry
when I look back at my life
The loves that I have gone through
which caused me mortal pain
The money I...

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