Short 1971 Poems

you attack my soul
with viscous anger and pain
and destroy my blues...

'One Way Out' - The Allman Brothers Band Live at Filmore East, 1971...

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embroidered daisies
hip hugger bell bottoms
1970

Nehru jacket
yellow happy faces
1971

maternity tops
and a quickie wedding
those dhrammed bell bottoms...

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Springtime And Farm Waiting For Its Harvest

three pigs a'sucking
red barn blown completely down
white corvette ready

Robert J. Lindley, 
Haiku, June 11th 1971...

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Booze—Broads—The Bible,
  which poison will you claim

The one that numbs, the one that thrills
   —the one your soul to shame

‘Captain Tony’s, Key West: June, 1971’...

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The imagery of experience,
the magic of verse

Each word bought and paid for
—to bless or to curse

(Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: 1971)
‘With Jerry Jeff Walker At The Main Point’...

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big satchmo
renowned jazz
pops



In Loving Memory Of
Louis Daniel Armstrong   {Satchmo Or Pops}  
{Aug 4th 1901 - July 6th 1971}




Also Entry For Brian Strand's Spetimal Fun Contest...

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The summer air hangs still.
Hawk and whippoorwill
Wing mournful down the graying skies…
Hearken to their cries!

And then the faintest breeze
Murmurs in the trees…
And at the Lonesome Place
Spirits sigh in space....

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Yesterday, May 27, Sir Henry Kissinger turned one-hundred
    It's now been forty-six years since he held public office

  His astute, 'realpolitik' analysis is as bold as ever
    He opened up China (1971) ~ yet the man is cautious!...

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LOVE stands still , the Sun does not set in SORROW
The deep Caribbean Sea took LENORE from Me 
In a Rainbow, Her Soul lies hidden in Kaleidoscope, Coral

ALWAYS and FOREVER YOUR Liege, with LOVE…HG

                       To Be Continue...

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Wanting you,
knowing I couldn’t have you
I called the devil my friend
as he surrendered the key
The lock to your heart reopening,
the hourglass turned over
In the flames of December
—running back to you

(Houserville Pennsylvania: December, 1971)...

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A Tear scars my cheek, With no Time to Think
I watched My MOST BELOVED LENORE --  “ DIE “
Thrown Overboard, by a Boom not  tied 
                The Tears I Cried

                     To Be Continued, if YOU Like??
YOUR Liege ALWAYS and FOREVER; HG ( Harry )...

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"Dark Shadow's" Barnabas Collins,
Was guilty of vampire maulin's.
He was cursed by jealous witch, Angelique,
A cure for vampirism he did seek.

7/16/21
(For those who don't know, Dark Shadows was a gothic soap-opera that aired
 from 1966-1971. As a kid, I was crazy about it!)...

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Wisconsin winds are chill:
Hawk and whippoorwill
Are mourning in the skies
When their poet dies.

And at the Lonesome Place
Spirits fill the space
With whispers on the breeze
Billowing the trees.

Wisconsin winds will blow
Summers into snow,
But winds of Fame will sing
Evening in Spring....

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Rendezvous'

If the callous fingers of stolid silence could but stir me 
To rise with the bright radiant ever-changing flight of moon
And await new birth of sea fairies dancing to Neptune's wake
Wherein the majestic blue sea cries out mightily to flee.

Robert J. Lindley. April 2nd 1971
Quatrain...

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She made me more real than I could stand,
but choice was not an option
And reaching in deep she pulled tomorrow
out of yesterday’s regret
Leaving me to find a home for all the
wasted memories and time
Loving me only just enough 
—to begin to start again

(Houserville Pennsylvania: December, 1971)...

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The Flashes, YOUR About to See
Are Memories, of LENORE and Me

When I said :  “ I DO “, I meant “ I DO “
How Well I Know, YOU  Meant it “ TOO “

For , ALWAYS and FOREVER: “ MY WIFE “
For , ALWAYS and FOREVER: “ MY LIFE “

Dedicated, in LOVING Memory; To my Wife
  “ Lenore Ellen (Adams) JOHNSON “...

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(My very first poem) 

I used to hide
In my pine tree
I could feel safe and big
Sitting in my monkey fort.

Now I can't
They say I'm too old
Instead I sit in the cafeteria
Eating my bananas. 

(C) 1971, 1998 RosaSheila Barrera


This poem was published in "LA FONT" a high school literary collection.......

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Comment On Decency And Morality

This ole earth sets its unholy record
as sin is so often celebrated
The bad walk with chins and chest puffed out
streets danger from the inebriated.

Robert J. Lindley, Feb 2nd 1971
Quatrain

Note; My friend Jimmy, died this last weekend due to his driving drunk.
A completely needless act....

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I complain about...
Faster, cheaper
Good enough is good enough
Almost right is great
More is better
16 oz. now 12
Large, big, jumbo
Everyone gets a trophy
Everything on demand
.0 t0 60 in 3
The Rock Man said relax,
rocks melt very slowly.

The Rock Man is a cool, laid back, character in  the 1971 animated film'The Point'...

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God is with me everyday, he's with me everywhere I go.
If people wonder if he will abandon me, the answer is no.
God is with me when I'm at my house, at the lake and even at Walmart.
Everywhere I go, I carry God in my heart.
God has been with me since I was born in August of 1971.
I thank the Lord for all of the good things that he has done....

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Will one write an Ogden Nash?
A touch o' wink, bit a blink
And then, add a glint o' guile...
Doing all, with wryest smile.

Or could it come out "Mish-Nashed"?
Since Nash, he himself, had mashed
His isms into witticisms
Leaving most in a mad dash -







Tribute, 8 Line, Light Verse, 48 Words, To Ogden Nash
Noted American Poet 1902 - 1971...

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I could not wait to stop wearing maternity clothes.
I had been pregnant for 9 months I 1971
and then for another 9 months in 1973.
You can hardly imagine how irritating it was
to see the newest fashions for women in 1974
looked like maternity tops!
That is all they sold in the stores.
The exact kind of smock I had been stuck in
for eighteen months!...

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(Dedicated to Selena Quintanilla Perez who died March 31, 1995.)

You were murdered in cold blood in 1995.
While you lived, your music career thrived.
It was sad because you died at the age of twenty-three.
We were both born in 1971, you were the same age as me.
When you died, the music industry lost a great star.
Now you're singing for God because Heaven is where you are....

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God became my best friend when I was born in 1971.
God wants all of us to have joy and to have fun.
I don't go to church but my love for God is true.
He's my best friend and he's your best friend too.
Don't give up even when things look grim.
God is there to help us; just look to him.
I know for a fact that God loves me and he loves you.
Having him for a best friend is the best thing to do....

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YOU     DESERVED      BETTER


You’ve given me everything you could
And I haven’t always responded as I should
You deserved to have a better son than me
That’s plain enough for me  to see
Mum, I  haven’t always behaved like a perfect son
But I think now  I’ve finished all the work that you’ve begun.


……………………………………………………………………………….



(Written in 2011  for my  mother,  who passed away in 1971)...

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