Long Weevils Poems

"Election Edition"  posted 1 Nov 2020
politicians:      like diapers, need frequent changing (for the same reason)

debates are like steer horns      a couple points with lots...

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Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about autumn, fall, falling, trees, leaves, leaving, goodbye, rice, moon, moonlight, words.

Reverential tears:
the falling leaves
bid their trees goodbye.
—Matsuo Basho, translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Plates and bowls
gleaming dimly in the...

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cont'd
These anguished howls that knew no bounds,
Continued for hours without count.
‘til a silence as deep as eternal sleep
Enveloped the ship in its gowns.

And amidst the gloom, exhumed from the tomb,
A shaded and ghostly shape,
With cobwebbed...

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“And you call yourself a bloody cook”, this mongrel shearer said.
“I oughta ram this rubbish down yer’ throat, it’ll kill a bloke stone dead.”
He’s talking ‘bout the stew I burnt, which I hoped he couldn’t...

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A post from the past.....just trying to put down all the ones I have written but deleted when I left the site for a while......this is almost too long, but I couldn't find which animal...

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The Great Witches Bake Off is here again
Bakes so weird some have no name.
So fierce it was to be the winner,
The prize is fame, on Lucifer's underworld twitter.
Laughing and cackling but alert and suspicious
Each convinced...

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Chapter Seven: Spaced 
Chapter Seven: Spaced 
 
Cheph111 outward bound 
liftoff ten minus none 
 
The trip from the planet's surface was almost instantaneous the crew were 
webbed in bunks and floating in gspaces the...

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A MORSEL
This is a sweet  bitter morsel
It is very  bitter and sweet 
It is sweet as honey
And bitter as bile
A morsel  of  boneless 
But harder than skull
A morsel of honour
Likewise a...

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In my consign of living, nature in its fullness bends,
Creepers, climbers, insects and flies are, hence, in abundance;
House-flies relish our rooms, floors, beds, heads, faces, feet and food,
Ants are awesome! Butterflies, here, are auspicious and...

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O Lord, I bring not calf nor my first child,
My palms are empty and my pride is hollow.
Leaves have fallen with this winter that has walked
the face of this earth to find a hermitage in...

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Amazing caramel, orange rose red sunset
Blazing behind the horizon as it
Comes forth with the absence of glittering stars
Dawn brings out the sight of white clouds and blue skies
Enlightening nature to wake with a
Fresh new day...

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Alabama’s Top Cash Crop

By Elton Camp

If you think Alabama is the Cotton State
You are behind on developments of late
More profitable & boll weevils don’t stop
Is marijuana, which became the top crop

In fact, twelve state share...

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                                  7/14/2025

Oh,...

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The trees know very well
And so do the limbs.
Nature tells the limbs
To release the leaves because
Their provisions of shadows
And shades have now ended.
The wind picks up and scatters
The leaves as they quietly fall.
Fields of grains...

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A spider drank cider and was legless at breakfast 
Now this placid arachnid with a shoddy wee body
Asked weevils so evil if they each had a needle
Could they just for a joke smoke while they...

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Ailing armadillos advertising artichokes. But bringing back brilliance brought big booming bangs. Courteous cats creating canopies. Dogs do dare dream during digs. Energetic eggs evaluating effigies. Frying fortresses frees flamingos. Grateful goats grinning greedily. Hippos...

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super boll
boll weevil twin brothers:     one was great, one the lesser of two weevils

you killed my father, prepare to die 
three-legged dog in a saloon:      "looking...

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.Evil

A wormy apple bruised
bread crawling with weevils
Mottled black and blue
Essences of evil
Skull and crossbones warn
 deadly poisonous gas
Tortured cries and moans
Creepy sutured mask
Disguises of light and truth
Hiding grotesque thoughts
Someone follows you
 Security, safety lost
Empathies a...

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The Bench Warmers! 

I Always confused 
About the ladders we called 
I wonder, where things went wrong 
I'm thinking thinking 
I keep asking myself 
Where are the sensitive young adults? 
So saddened the future leaders...

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Fingers on the keyboard 
Unlock mysteries of the mind
Guarded by the demons of
Secrecy, shame and self-consciousness
I can hear these demons now
As numerous as the weevils 
Boring into my cranium
Snarling and snapping in my ear
O tortured...

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Dementia
riding
Riding on dementias
horse,
will it get me yes
of course?
Dropped me on the
bullock tracks,
has me brain got
bloody cracks,
cant find the tomato
sauce?

Dementias horse is
mean ya know,
bump him along, he's
getting slow,
a touch of spur to
get a grip,
play some chess,
don't...

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With every Bannockburn there comes a Boyne.
The gods grant grain, alleviate our lives,
then send us weevils, whitefly, worms (and wives!)
They raise us up – then knee us in the groin

vaulting. Winchester was built on bog.
This...

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Let my lone arrow of love
Rise up to the heavens and...

Strike
At the burning sun
Strike
At the freezing winds
Strike
At the raging rain storms
Tearing down my mother's 
hut

Strike
At the thieving mice
Strike
At the vile locusts
Strike
At the billion weevils
Feasting on...

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