Short 1968 Poems

August 28, 1968
Haiku: by Tom

Cancer was the match
that set my fields on fire.
Then came God’s healing.
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Charlie Watts

Rolling Stone Charlie Watts
First learned on pans and pots
'fore becoming a rock and roll drummer
Wearing flowers in his hair one 1968 summer...

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I still have dreams of my favorite car
It took me to places not really far
On some days it would not start
One day it just fell apart
So few moments we were on par...

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1968, the only year
Since the Great War,
Supposed to ensure
We would fight no more,
No combat deaths
Of any serving Brit.
A sobering fact.
But do enough know it?...

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I am a 3


Revealed from heaven,
My three dances atop ten,
Numerology!





Haiku- 5/7/5 on destiny no.
For Andrea's contest 'Tell me your number'

Path no- 6
Destiny no- 3
Dob- 3/3/1968

Awarded 4th place win...

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I, mister, I'm 
Alive, alive.
...Alive.

Cut my limbs off
Let me bleed,
Bleed.. Bleed,
Bleed the pain.
Out.

My... My Lai Masscre,
Cut my limbs off,
Screw me senseless 
screw me dead.

My Lai Masscre.
I'm alive.
My..
Lai Masscre.

March 16th 1968
Vietnam....

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Convicting Thoughts
August 1968
By Miracle Man
January 15, 2021

I reasoned why to me they came,
convicting thoughts that appeared;
God released me from my shame.

Things God thought I need know,
He introduced Jesus, to be revered;
Heart now possesses an inner glow.
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Chapter 12: Harvesting Wild Rice

Sorry! I am having trouble writing this chapter due to the fact that my knowledge of this quite interesting, I think, annual local event is based on 1968 memories and may not be factually accurate today. So this Chapter will not be released until I confirm that its information is accurate....

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In 1968 I was filling my hope chest with embroidered tea towels.
I spent a week’s salary on a mushroom canister set in 1969.
Sears had a collection of mushroom kitchen items.
They were called the Merry Mushrooms.
I began embroidering new tea towels that matched the MMs.
Not realizing that mushrooms had anything to do with drugs....

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The Duke

Duke Paoa Kahanamoku
Hawaii’s Polynesian Legend
Olympic swimmer-strokes freestyle
Represented USA & Hawaii
Shattered all records 
and brought surfing to the world!

Embraced Kaliani
Surfer's Mantra
Life Saver and introduced surfing to the mainland,
The beachboy gentleman
(1890–1968)...

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HAIKU coo ka choo
or Mrs. Robinson writes a poem.

HAIKU coo ka choo
Everything is okay
Count Five Seven Five

by
Martin Braun
August 2, 2023
'Coo coo ka choo' was used in Simon and Garfunkel's 1968 song “Mrs. Robinson". The phrase was used in the 60s and 70s as a way of saying 'all good' or 'everything is okay'....

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The skies of Paris were lit up
in 1940, when the Luftwaffe 
rained down armament...

Burned again in student riots
in 1968, with the protests
against parliament

Then again an apartment block
In 2019, Feb, arson after a 
neighbours' argument

And now the skies light up once more 
In 2019, now Our Lady's flames 
on the firmament 


(c) The Didds 2019...

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It was the planet Earth
that rose that day. It filled my eyes,
it made me both an earthling
and an alien.

I watched the world float over my head;
a window of light in a limitless night.
Lovely and perfect.

‘Earth Rise,’ they called it,
Life Magazine 1968.
A world away now.

My name could be Anders,
but it’s not
I am a child
being taken on a moon-ride....

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A man recorded a hit that was great.
This was back in the year of 1968.
He had a very catchy melody.
The man in question was Leapy Lee.
I can hear this song up to today.
What a great tune for Valentine’s Day.
I want those little arrows to take a journey.
Send them to this sweet little honey.
Shoot them all up into the sky.
To that woman I know, may they make a bull’s eye.
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Remembering August 28, 1968
Written: by Miracle Man
10-07-2019

I prayed that day to feel God’s touch,
I asked no more, just that much,
Prayer was answered from above, 
With tear filled eyes I felt His love.

But what did I, a lost man, have to give,
I vowed my heart for as long as I live.
Since that day we’ve not been apart,
He’s won my thoughts and also heart. 
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TYNE - BUILT    SHIP    1968

Gigantic steel  behemoth
Sitting on the ways greased
And ready to give it birth,
Ten-storey-high  street-darkener,
Rusted and immobile  -

Once launched in silent swish
And cheered by a thousand voices,
Transformed to marine elegance,
And slimmed by the vastness 
Of the endless ocean  -

She moves easily in her element,
Dolphin and whale at the same time....

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Year 1968
2:00 AM
Very late
Ring Ring
It was the phone
I hesitate
Maybe it would stop
Ring Ring
I guess not
RING RING
Leaving the bed
RING RING
Shuffling to the living room
RING RI-
I answered the phone
Put the handset to my head
Came the voice of a little girl
Age about five
Sweet and polite
A voice from the dead
“Hello world,” she said...

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STILL WAITING

Until his assassination in 1968, Martin Luther King campaigned tirelessly for equality and human rights for African Americans. Fifty-seven years on from his historic “I have a dream” speech, for many the lessons still have to be learned.

This man of vision
Dreamed the impossible dream.
Still far, far to go

22nd June 2020
Haibun Pick Your Theme Contest
Sponsor Line Gautier...

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Blessed
Miracle Man
11/2/2024

I am blessed to have lived a long time,
and delighted in my days in the sun.
Now, aged, I face a new paradigm,
knowing my earthly race is almost run.

There are no aspirations left for me,
but the Lord has prepared a better place.
He saved my soul upon hearing my plea,
and someday pretty soon I’ll see his face.

Born 12/5/1938
Born Again August 27,1968
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I'm waiting
for you to admit
just once
that you have never really looked into my eyes
or held my hand
or touched my cheek

I'm waiting 
for you to say
just once
that our friendship  has made you happy
or our thoughts shared
or our dreams

I'm waiting
for you to ask 
just once 
for "the privilege of the next dance"
instead of my opinion
or my help

I'm waiting
for you to say
just once
"I love you"...

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They are recruited
for Operation
Merdeka,
trained to kill
their brethrens  

Aware that is to
attack Sabah

They refused!

They were killed and
tortured 
on the island named
Corregidor 

That event inscribed
as Jabidah Massacre 
then reported on 18
March 1968
 
Willingly sacrificed
their lives to avoid
use
on attacking Sabah
on the order of the
Philippines

Indeed,
their sacrifice
shall not be a
waste!...

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Once I sat upon your throne
to visit a familiar chair
I am the Empress overthrown
I no longer rule or scare
My face is in the picture
since 1968
There is no kind of stricture
I'm sitting at the gate
I stand for birth and promise
of a new dawn seeping in
and of gifts awmous
refraining from any sin
So lay out the cards of ink my friends
and see me sitting there
you need not for to make amends
I'll grant your wishes fair....

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In The Beginning 
Written: by Tom Wright
8-22-2016

No play script, but only unloaded pages,
But immediately the pages began to fill.
Instead of chapters, life became stages,
Each stage lived according to my free will.

At one stage, by emptiness, I was consumed, 
Troubled, I realized a deficiency in my life.
Without Jesus, my soul would be doomed,
And I’d face perpetual fire in the afterlife.


Born again August 28th 1968
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Miss Tallulah Bankhead, you were the quintessential southern belle.
You played all your acting parts on the screen quite well.
With your ethereal beauty and your deep sultry voice,
you were the type of actress so many considered choice.
Although your personal life may have been controversial,
on the screen and the stage, your parts were very colorful.
You became a very famous actress in your day.
We miss you since 1968 when you passed away.
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Today is Martin Luthor King Junior's birthday; a day that we celebrate.
Without his influence, Barack Obama probably wouldn't be the President of the United States.
He wanted black people to have equal rights.
He didn't cower in the face of this fight.
He knew that some people are consumed by hate.
Sadly one of those people took his life in 1968.
Martin Luther King Junior died for what he believed in.
People shouldn't be prejudice because of the color of skin....

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