Long Windy city Poems

It was 'My Town' for 7 of the most                          ...

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Life 101 was taught to me in an old mansion in inner-city Chicago.                      ...

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"Look at the stars, look at how they shine for you and everything you do"                    ...

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I do not understand the acceptance of what I assume to be a proven fact.
I do not know if it is really true for most men, that they forget 'the vitals'.
I'm speaking of the 'top...

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Mississippi.
Mostly mild, wet, and muddy  in winter,
but also chilly, cold, and sometimes snowy.
We feasted on ice cycles from tin or asphalt rooftops;
We screamed and yelled as we fought each other with snowballs;  ...

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While dining out, in old Chi town
just David and the Mrs Brown
peruse the menu, ask what's special
the waiter says our turkey pretzel

The Mrs makes an awful face
but Mr says he'd love to taste
how could a...

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I’ve a vast store of mem’ries about Chicago
as I’ve lived there for a couple of years
helping out in the parish of many immigrants,
especially Mexicans and Puerto Ricans.

I’ve made friends and a number of them
still continue...

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"The 50 Move Rule"



Thomas Crown 
rolled his smile 
around her frown

Romance blew a warm breath
over her pristine cowrie shell
Voodoo Mojo Bag

There, 
just there, 
an Ocean made a Blue move

In the Red
Life
Black Black White

White White Black
Read,
A...

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She wrote a letter 
Which I happily read
In Spring
Summer baked on
Autumn arrived with a chill in the air
Winter followed with snow 
Then the call came
Aunt Stella had passed away
Two months shy of her eighty-seventh birthday
Could...

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Copyright 2014 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Poetic Lyrics By Thomas Lam Hsi



THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUE GOD...THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY...WHO ALONE CAN
SAVE FROM Satan...who plays 'all' roles...the devil...the 'Lord Jesus'...
the 'Father'...the 'Holy Spirit'...all 'Other Gods'...and 'alien gods'...HE...THE
LORD...

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GP

She ran away when 
She was 13 years old
Nobody filed a 
Missing person report

Got in with a driver
All the things that he did
Made her convict uncle
Look like a picnic

She thought someone 
Would rescue her
She thought...

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After graduating from high school,  I left the South and moved North to the Windy City of Chicago in search of a better way of life and in the process found lots of snowflakes...

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My Dad Was Just a Lad
Part 3

I’ll close with just this “added” tale,
Of this  “Old Veteran’s” rhyme.
To share how one man’s story,
Ended. . . way before it’s time.

He went back home to Iowa,
Packed up...

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On the main floor of the bus station in the windy city,                       ...

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Oh, my dear bride; how the years have unfolded before our eyes.
Remember way back then when we stood at the Buckingham Fountain?
Or took breathtaking moon-light views of the skyline from the Planetarium?
Or went for a...

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PAM’S   PEACEFUL   PLACE
By Curtis Johnson

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I have been kissed by lots of breezes.
I was kissed by a passing breeze;
Like the humid breeze from
the Gulf of Mexico.

I was kissed by a passing breeze;
Like that Chicago breeze
from the Windy City.

I was kissed...

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Time And Space

In the class rooms from the very first grade,
we played with trucks and toys in the sand box

We learned side by side to read, write, and do math
At recess, we took to the...

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School was out for the summer,
and the summer heat was beaming.
The children were playing, getting wet
and cool by the blasting fire hydrants.
Even in a thriving metropolis such as Chicago,
'The innocence' was dropping like rain on...

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Ted was a professional farter
and at his windy recitals he’d boast
that could even toot Moonlight Sonata
If his wife fed him baked beans on toast!

There was an annual farting competition
Held in downtown Chicago, (the ‘Windy City’)
Ted...

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They call Chicago 
          the windy city, 
but Great Falls, Montana 
          deserves the tag.

  ...

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Been all over this map, from dot to dot
Red and blue lines, like his old tired eyes
Running late up and down every interstate
It is a living, like it or not
Another truck stop, burger and a...

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Taken by circumstances and not by dreams;
Blown by winds adrift on just any stream;

We grew up together and were the best of friends;
but after high school, he disappeared, drifted away.

Yanzi went with the flow, never...

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Come on! He urged Cameron. I’m your friend, aren’t I?
Cameron’s fear was showing. He did not want to die.
It’s my dad’s favorite thing, much more valuable than me.
But it was Ferris Beuller and he had...

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Known to be a windy city, but it was not windy that NIGHT.
It seemed the weather and everything was just RIGHT.
I was excited about taking her home, and we were all ALONE.
It was a perfect...

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