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Davy Crockett - 1786-1836

According to the ballad,
Davy Crockett, born in Tennessee
(part of North Carolina at the time),
kilt him a b'ar when he was only three
(altho' only a song,
always had my doubts about cruelty to animals
from one so young).
Playing with it night and day, young Davy
should have taken more care
(had a hunting reputation),
he pulled the arms and legs off
his

Asheville North Carolina

Walking downtown streets of Asheville 
I could hear drums in the white wind
Despite being deserted I feel a thrill
Of creative energy hoping to thrive again

The shops full of unique crafts and goods
With store workers seemingly bored
Gentrified was the emerald neighborhood 
But evidence of roots still in stores

Helene had come through full steam 
Wiping away many

60 miles from Cherokee

I took my bike on Amtrak, got off at Charlottesville.
Climbed up to the Blue Ridge parkway, the first of many a hill.
I met a Canadian Carpenter as I got closer to N.C.
He was cycling alone; his wife would meet him in Miami.

We shared some jokes and when food ran low
resupplied at the green valley of

western north carolina

muddy waters recede
give up beloved dead recovered
appalachian songs eternal

The Old Mill Is Gone

The streets are filled with crying men,
filling the gutters up with tears.
As we walk from our final shift,
that’s fed us for a hundred years.

Eleven hundred jobs vanished, 
like a leaf caught upon the wind.
And Canton North Carolina,
will never be the same again.

What’s in store for us tomorrow,
no one can ever really know.
When your faith is

Rain - North Carolina

Swiftly, lightening
Flashes in the sky, singing ~
Melody so calm

The Earth Was Turning In Her Sleep

A hurricane tore North Carolina
After ripping Haiti!
It stalks like a hyena,
Leaving a trail of calamity!

I, The Earth, was turning in my sleep.
Humans live for seventy years.
Some build in areas that are deep
Or somehow interfere with my affairs.


               May 8, 2022 the

Slave Auctions, Alive and Well In a North Carolina School

A K-8 school, J.S. Waters, was roundly chastised today
  Its students held a 'mock' slave auction
This happened in March, in North Carolina, in the year 2022
  White students sold black students as slaves, and used the n-word too

One boy went for $350, later he was clubbed with a baseball bat
  So, if

North Carolina

Yesterday there was an earthquake in North Carolina
Some things were knocked off the shelves
And broken

Ceilings caving in 
And the whole world wondered
Because earthquakes never happen in North Carolina

I laughed out loud when it occurred to me that
I am North Carolina
Bits and pieces being knocked from my shelves

Unexpected shaking
At the most inopportune time
In a place that

Doshier Memorial In Wilmington North Carolina

Jill has been in the hospital for
seven days and I have not been 
writing any poems on Poetry Soup.
Here is one I wrote while there with
my wife.

We would have started out to seek,
Things explained when did speak;
Could hear,
Far or near,
When the weather was very bleak.

Jim Horn

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North Carolina

A young woman of North Carolina,
Danced on tables at a down-town diner.
Serving Chilli-dogs and fries,
To leering men she despise,
This Lady deserves something much finer.

Barney Fife

ive never met anyone in this life
as nervous as deputy barney fife
andy gave him a big gun
but a bullet only one
and will thelma ever become his wife

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Good Morning North Carolina

Good Morning North Carolina
By Franklin Price
12/24/2016

Good morning North Carolina
It's Christmas eve today 
Half way around the world
The sleigh is on the way

Santa must start somewhere
With the children tucked in tight
I believe he's in Australia
It's the middle of the night

Already Christmas morning
As his reindeer lead the way
Flying East to West he does
To make a longer day

To

North Carolina

North Carolina—a beautiful place of humble abode,
On summer vacations or all the year round.
Rife with history, the Wright Brothers showed,
Thanks to Kitty Hawk's sand dunes at heights quite profound,
Hosting Earth's first manned flight on wings at our coast.

Carolina Tarheels—the battle cries loud,
Across our green state, Biltmore east, towards Kill Devil Hills.
Rolling gently across cotton and

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