Long Valerie Poems

Dedicated to Valerie Haper, actress and John Denver, singer!
Who were just wo, of hundreds who launched  the Hunger Project,
In 1976!
Original title was a Salute to Valerie Haper. But it was not
adequate. It was more...

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...a true story


It was one of those chance encounters; the Common Room, mid-morning on a brisk April day. She bounced in with a radiant smile and absent-mindedly scanned the newspapers. I was reading a magazine....

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Valerie



It was one of those chance encounters; the Common Room, mid-morning on a brisk April day. She bounced in with a radiant smile and absent-mindedly scanned the newspapers. I was reading a magazine. At loose...

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...a true story


It was one of those chance encounters; the Common Room, mid-morning on a brisk April day. She bounced in with a radiant smile and absent-mindedly scanned the newspapers. I was reading a magazine....

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P S its POETRY WRITE ON WRITE ON CONGRATS TO MY FELLOW POETRY SOUPERS PART 18

Thomas Flood                  ...

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It was one of those chance encounters; the Common Room, mid-morning on a brisk April day. She bounced in with a radiant smile and absent-mindedly scanned the newspapers. I was reading a magazine. At loose...

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Valeria Valdermare once was a young ballerina who coveted a pair of red ballerina shoes.  Oh! how she truly longed to grow up to become a prima ballerina!  But alas! She was last...

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I had a happy childhood at first
Yeah I played with dolls to a tragic
Extent. It was a dream of some
Type of female existence.  I was
Almost to young to remember the
Two year old boy I...

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The vast array of colored lights illuminated the jovial faces of the youthful teens
As Ms. Durmstrang antiquely waltzed with Mr. Chestwood.
I sat alone as I watched my velvet red date swiftly fly through the crowd,...

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Had I been one to trust in Faith-
Dear Sir, in this love we would bathe.
Thy poem I would hide away,
Yet the lord won't lead us astray.
In faces of harsh countenance,
We would stand together, unmoved,
While the...

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FINALLY

Multi-emotions/ coming and going
It's been awhile since/ I sat down with pen and paper
It's not that I/ have nothing to say
It's the multi- emotions/ flowing in my head/ while my heart ache

Don't know /where to...

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P.S. IT’S POETRY WRITE ON WRITE ON CONGRATS TO MY FELLOW POETRY SOUPERS PART 6
Many thanks to you selected poets; Of sharing your whispers from God, tho you didn’t know it; Each letters and each...

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on January 14th at MCNY on the 14th floor
a meeting was held on how to build up the Security Division more
we started off with introductions and learning a little bit about each other
a team-building endeavor...

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*Walking among the tombstones
*Conversing with the dead
*Alone, crying at a grave
*A woman on her knees, bowed was her head

*Her hair was dark
*Her eyes were too
*I couldn't help the strange feeling
*That this was a woman I...

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It was one of those chance encounters; the Common Room, 
mid-morning on a brisk April day. She bounced in with a radiant smile 
and absent-mindedly scanned the newspapers. I was reading a magazine.
At loose ends,...

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It was one of those chance encounters; the Common Room, 
mid-morning on a brisk April day. She bounced in with a radiant smile 
and absent-mindedly scanned the newspapers. I was reading a magazine.
At loose ends,...

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It was one of those chance encounters; the Common Room, 
mid-morning on a brisk April day. She bounced in with a radiant smile 
and absent-mindedly scanned the newspapers. I was reading a magazine.
At loose ends,...

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It was one of those chance encounters; the Common Room, 
mid-morning on a brisk April day. She bounced in with a radiant smile 
and absent-mindedly scanned the newspapers. I was reading a magazine.
At loose ends,...

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Just pray, just pray- must pray for forgiveness to be forgiven
Just pray, must pray to the Savior
For my total salvation, that I will never die...

Just pray just pray to communicate
All prayer is,  just talkin...

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Goodbye, Andy Warhol, R.I.P.

Welcome to the world of sensationalism.
Welcome to the pop culture of Andy Warhol.
Who saw, in a can, nutritious soup for consumption.
And beauty in the face of an ungodly woman.
But remember, “Andy was...

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The desperate eyes
 pools of water clean.
The river of her past
 I must travel upstream.

In a moment of time
 I am placed in a boat.
Oars are my hands
 I must not float.

I set my heart
...

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Any would be dictator can easily
close down an open and free society.
In order to do so 10 steps must be put into play
and these 10 steps are in place in America today.
*
1. Invoke An Internal...

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"I shall be telling this with a sigh".
Robert Frost, 'The Road Less Travelled'.

Mommy,
Maybe I can't remember the moment I was born-
Even the moment the announcer blew his horn.
I will never know the moment I was...

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Old Miss Valerie, years gone by was once a benign lass
Sprinkled dust of shimmering joy o'er kids in her class
Oh blue-eyed kids believed her to be a moonlit fairy
Her honeyed ritual of "Good morning"...

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The "With You" is Silent
By:Valerie Odom
February 27,2020

Am i worth more than what my past treated me?
Everything is applied
But my eye suggest that I'm not really apart of the Brady Bunch
Just a hunch
We all've felt it
Some...

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