Long Wiley Poems

FIRST MOVEMENT (Minor Key)

Times such as these test body soul and mind
So should our thoughts be pain and dark confined
Or loosed to concentrate on brighter things
Like furry puppies, flowers and girls on swings

In this bright...

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Hear the screeching of the Nighthawk, as its talons grapple
At the tail ends of the moon's rising, dragging it ever upwards, unto
The center of the blackened shroud, of the universe.
This celestial light casts illusion's rays...

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-LAST DAYS OF OLD BEN-


    “See that man up there on the mountain, son?”
“Yeah Pop, why’s he a’jes sittin there starin’ out at nuthin?"
 Well, son it ain’t nothin’ he’s seein’…Just nuthin...

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In Search of 50 Names(couplets alphabetized for ease of footnoting the names)

A) A tom cat sits in heather nearby a willow tree.
Rose and jasmine fill the air. A billy goat I see.

B) 50 words that...

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© 2011 (by Jim Sularz)
(The true story of Frank Eaton – AKA “Pistol Pete”)


There’s a saying out West, know by gunslingers best,
that’ll deep six you in a knotty pine casket.
One you should never forget, lest...

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It stands alone four square, white-washed straw-thatched, 
small window panes, black frames, and out back chickens hatched, 
pecking weedy ground around a single willow.
Set just a little back from single country lane, 
high-hedged between the...

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Wiley McCracken was many things,
But it can be said he was no fake—
Yet folks only smiled and they nodded
When he spoke of the face in the lake.

They said it was years of prospectin’,
Then long years...

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when it comes to baseball
there was one team that we shall
remember from it's past

it's the nineteen twenty seven 
        N.Y Yankees

amidst this legendary collection 
you shall find the...

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Owls, supposedly the wisest of all birds in the forest.
Although known as being smart they aren't the greatest.
Some birds run some can't even fly, yet they are cute.
Ostriches with their long necks, white top fur...

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Tick tick tick..... it seems like the earth 
is a giant timebomb ready to explode at
any moment.It is so very...... dark, decaying 
exponentially to the point of no return.Seems 
as if it is ready to...

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© 2011 (by Jim Sularz)
(The true story of Frank Eaton – AKA “Pistol Pete”)


At nearly twenty-one, Pete knew he may have out-run,
his luck as the fastest gun.
This would be the ultimate test of his shootin’...

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Hallowed The Halls of Antiquity
Frail The Parchment of History
When a Host of Quills Touched Destiny
And Rose a Peoples of Democracy

Hail sayeth to MAN not King?
Immortal Freedom When it Rings!
Freshly minted or neatly Forged!
No Queen or...

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A wiley post this early freeze fast makes
Making hard the sugarcane, shedding bright flakes
That covers the city, rivers, streets, and trees
The jet streams cold and meandering breeze,
Wasaburo's joy make us know our frail
Powers limit, we're...

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THE BAR ON BEER STREET AND GIN LANE

Come in quoth he. Ye weary poor devils
What is mine is yours he quipped with hands a-flarin'
T'ward his barrage of demon drink.His eye smiling
that Succubus hint gleaming
just behind...

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PEP squad

Hello, let's cheer for the ones to hear
the gladness of our souls
The voices of the ones who speak
surefooted, strong and bold
The PEP Squad shares enlightended ways
together they bring gladder days
But many wish to keep...

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WIND IN THE TREES

Old Wiley, what secrets will you have to tell me today?
Since the beginning of our tryst, you remind me daily of 
our eternal promises and our clandestine love affair. 
Throughout the millennium,...

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Waking up on Saturday morning as a kid
I did,
Playing hide-and-go-seek with my parents
I hid.
Watching early morning looney toons
on the tube,
It was funny seeing Wiley Coyote blow a fuse
too cool.

I Miss That Stuff ----

I used to...

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Forbid hate not love, let love bloom, real love is rare~ Deterred love often has tragic consequences.  Love which is not pure will reveal its deception in time. When the one you love isn’t...

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With no ballyhoo as the clock struck two
In a cottage near the edge of town
A maiden there graced with savoir faire
In a flash shot her lover down

A wiley gent from the county Kent
Known for his...

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Zombies ate my Christmas guests
Oh Lord you should have seen it
Don't know what the cops will think
But the neighbors won't believe it

Granny dodged and moved so quick
She ran like Herschel Walker
Just as it seemed she'd...

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Do you ever replay regrets,
Breathing in that cracked breath, 
Inhaling the last of your little secrets,
Never to suppose, this is not in fact, death.

Even outside, your mind appears measured,
Feeling the rich earth between your toes,
Only...

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Unlike opportunity,
Evil knocks many times.

Using many faces,
Subliminal messages.
hidden in song and video,
espouted by our friends.

As the thief entering a home,
is wiley and sly in invasion, 
willful in intention,
never seen but effecting
cognitive response.

So evil strikes full...

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tar dog tar dog where you be
he killing chicken like Wiley Coyote
wife yells you fetch him
for he eats more a them cookies
off I go low curse so she don't hear
dang flies he there alright
over hundred...

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Winnetka the witch was wily and keen.
Her mind was sharp, she was a mystical queen.
She decided to trick a hoot owl on Halloween.
She did her best, but he was wise, not green.

He would not fall...

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This then is the moment-the wiley eyes of destiny are upon her
How wretched are the journeys she has sought
When Fate has dealt her mighty blows
She will seek redemption and bow to the resignation
Of moments lost-rampant...

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