Long Yates Poems

This is a story about Freddie and Flo,
They lived in Baltimore a long time ago.
It might be called a May-September romance
And shows how love can blossom if it's given a chance.
Flo taught Sunday School, her...

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a fellow atheist who was making a peanut-butter & jelly sandwich one afternoon
while her pesky neighbor continued to make noises on the other side of the paper-thin
walls 
(annoying the bejesus out of her),
gripped the butter...

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Buried beneath blood-shot baby doll eyes
 where drowns dark truths dwelling empty despair,
 finds five fraught faces from false idol lies
 clinging cold-coffins caused by cruel affair;
Saddled by sorrow seen in mother’s stare,
 washed while...

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That Thin Line Of Blue

Running around driving that fast car 
the one with that imaginary V-8 chasing the crook from yard to yard, 
sirens wailing as loud as your voices can carry,
 yelling stop or...

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The beginning tell the end,

     One day we are born into a world of the unknown. 
 This is were our lives take note a place in history a vote. ...

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With fear in his eyes the shackled man 
asked who they were.  "My name is Linda 
Locklear and this 
is my husband Rusty Loclear".  "Enough 
with the small talk Linda go get the...

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You are a light at the end of a tunnel 
that shines so bright that leads me to safety in the night.  
You are a blanket of fleece 
that wraps around me holding me...

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Love behind the scenes


     With a few kind words, a gesture here and there, a hand shake starts us on 
the road to some where, a building block this a must,...

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The Cure for man

     As I am born into this world, I am given an expiration to leave this great 
place.  With no explanation for the reason or the understanding...

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"Just Breathe"

     Life is hard, life is tough, life is full of other stuff.  It throws you curve balls 
and never a straight strike.  You just know things aren't...

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God's Gift

God's gift starts out with just a white light, a blank canvas, an idea ready to take 
flight, the ink touches down with a swipe, this is how He begins our life.

He painted rocky...

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Middle of the crossroads, I’ve found myself in 
     To my left stand the poets, holding their pens
   On my right are religions, kneeling behind a cross 
 ...

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At six foot four, and an eighth of a ton,
A gentle giant of a man, he was;
Father to three, and himself a fine son,
Devoted husband to Jean, without pause.

Phone man, painter, in ocean liners he...

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"TEARS OF EMOTION"

Tears have many reasons to appear.  
They are not predicted on cue,
 they are not limited to one or two.   

Tears are an overload of emotions 
this triggers your eyes...

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On a dark, dark, night

                      On top of the hill on a dark, 
...

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LESSONS LEARNED

When we are young and two make dumb, 
one plus one equals none, 
problems arise like stars in the sky.  
With a tear in our eye, we know we can't undo wrong from...

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"Pain and Agony",

     As my heart pumps out the foul taste of despair on to the highway of 
emotions with a drop of a tear and the feelings of fear.

 ...

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CHRISTMAS IS HERE It's that time of the year 
for Christmas cheer with the snow a fallen, 
stocking are hanging, parents are running here and there, 
and children waiting for the sound of clickety clack...

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AN ANGEL SENT WITH CARE 

      As I lay in my lonely bed, I look to the lord overhead. I place my hand soaked tears together and pray for a...

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An old black and white movie
  took me back to my childhood
when cowboys rode the range
 Major Adams and Flint McCullough leading the Wagon Train,
and Hopalong's ten-gallon white hat
 rode the brim of John...

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Greeting Angels

Caylee, are you listening? 
I just wanted you to know
that we prayed that you’d get justice 
but I guess it won’t be so.
And I wondered if you met Tesslynn 
when you reached that heavenly...

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The Hands of Another,

      It all starts with my mother inviting in rough hands of another, ones trying 
to discipline saying their trying to be like a father. Oh Lord,...

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"The reason for our freedom"

The men and women in green locked at the knees 
standing still and straight 
as a tree with their elbows curved, saluting Ole glory. 
Our red, white, and blue, America's stars...

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A Day Without You!

     My dream ends of you, when my eyes open 
and I reach to hold you and you are not there.
 My mind starts to wonder with thoughts...

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Man with cufflinks
Woman with fine jewels
Rubies resting on booby's,
Sick stories and inverted crosses 
Orgies and they all yell more fish! 
Secret Societies taking over nations, 
Yates conspiracy and religions fantasy
Crossed bones those dark tales, 
Corpses:...

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