Long Water tank Poems

I was only twelve or thirteen when Dad bought
	The twenty acres alongside the highway
		On the east side of town in 1956,
That seemed so quiet then, unimportant even.

A piece of ground where horses had been kept...

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“Look up at the stars,” you say
Its just another night up on the old water tank
Our blanket is spread and here we sit with the universe our theater
Another night of showing me the constellations 
Astronomy…your...

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The water tower stands above the town and can be seen for miles around.  It has a 
ladder leading up to the base of the tank.  This ladder has been climbed by countless...

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Little adobe house on 160 acres
She grows flowers. I grow corn
Tomatoes, watermelon, etc.
Peace, love, hope, and joy
Grow themselves

Porch faces orange blazes
Draped over the rugged Mules
And a barn owl hoovers over
An old water tank with a...

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You continue to play the game and looking for someone to blame
You continue to play the game when everything around you is so lame
The days are sprinting by with a profound message from the anxious...

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All men have born desires 
    garland of the prettiest arm. 
    Want to meet in the loveliest Place 
    Where no hurdle no harm. 

...

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The tale of the high kicking raspberries in two hundred lines of silt and steamed porridge oats.

Keynotes noted kissing keystones keep keystrokes kingly. But kingly is often not associated with kindness, kinship, or kept keepers...

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Ever find yourself getting
 up on the wrong side of 
 the bed, knowing your 
 going to have one of those 
 days!! Guess what!
 everything went wrong,
 first, the letters slipped
 out of...

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It’s one of those days when my stomach is pressing against my chest, and my lungs is playing tick tock toe with its own breath. My adrenaline is running a hundred miles marathon per hour...

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I was influenced by Basil Fawlty
that sarcastic humour really caught me
inappropriate rude crude and naughty 
humour against stress which haunts me 

I'm the sort some assume a dim bulb 
even the spoons make a sharper...

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The Hill Country is dry and you can forget about California
Filled with dying live oak and mesquite
There’s a seven-year drought upon us
And momma says it’s going to get worse
Red ants on the tire trails
They don’t...

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It was once the pride of a prairie farmer not too many years ago.
Now, long abandoned it stands forlorn on a wind-blown plateau.
Its rusting blades slowly turn at the whim of every passing breeze.
It has...

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Gene
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He don tey
Ma guy he don tey
Wey monkey dey work 
And baboon dey talk
Chai! No be today.

Make I tanda
Gidigba like Balogun Thunder
Drop some verse like vaseline
Put ugwu meta
And land ponmo like four
Untop dis mata.

No be...

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The Laptop Cowboy

I got four hundred white face cows,
A breed that I swear by.
A herd of Mustangs to be rode,
New laptop standin' by.

I keep it in my saddlebag
Or on the pickup seat.
I'm learnin' how to...

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He was always in and out of work
It wasn't that he liked to shirk,
he didn't keep a job for long
because his attitude was wrong.

Then one day early in the spring
he started doing conjuring,
until he had...

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Chateau Pl

A sleep walk guided by reflections
Although somethings were real
Not the front entry way
Or the stair case
Or the garage for that matter
Scrubbed and alcohol swabbed shoes
Eating off those would've been though
Pee sitting down!
And cologne must...

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Hopkins snakes

Old Hopkins had a rope ladder,
To keep snakes out of the house,
Snake killing sticks under the rain water tank,
In the shower, where a snake ate the mouse,
The fowls all lived up in the trees,
Brownies...

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The beauty
Of
Namatjira
White haired
Bark painter's
Of fish
Wandjina
Feathered man
Full sunset
Corroboree
Pintubi
Dancers
In watercourse 
Colours
Of hills
And rangers
Near Henbury
Or was it
Kings canyon
South
Alice springs
Dome like peaks
Of Olga's
Stark landscape
Barren
Barkly
Near Soudan
Where
Dust storms
A common hazard
The faces
Of William Richetts
In the Maelstrom
Those colours
Of time
And day
House Wife's
Bushman
Children of the
Banka,...

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He complained that he had no hot water in his home because the water tank was broken.
She told him that her water came from a slough, which was five miles from her home.

He complained that...

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Dear Mr. Stomach
I am writing to let you know you give me headache.
I have fed you in bulk,
But you never get full you are like 1 million water tank.

The ancestors craved and never satisfied theirs,
They...

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We moved to Amarillo
Dad had bought a farm
Chickens, pigs and a milk cow
In a big red painted barn

Just twenty seven acres 
 Of irrigated land
With a windmill and a water tank
And a pump you did...

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A tiny fish in a polluted pond struggled to breathe.
She is suddenly scooped up with a batch of the stinky water.
It is poured off her, and she is plunked into a fresh water tank
With her...

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Remember when 
 summer days were long
 roller skating was cool
 collecting the sticker from your 5 cent gum
 while learning how to walk the dog with your coke a cola yo yo
 remember when...

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With a drippy drip drip steady into the tank,
The tank slowly fills like a pond,
The tank with red rusted rippling sides, 
Wants to fill to the top and beyond,

And it steadily drips throughout the whole...

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