Short Holliday Poems
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mountains morph pink
cacti formations cool
as Summer sun sets…
Doc Holliday and Earps ‘sup
pan de campo and beans
2/18/2022
A BRIAN STRAND TANKA
Take me to the deep south
Show me the blues
Muddy Waters, BB King, Billie Holliday
Let me hear spirituals
Lena Horne, Elvis Presley, Bessie Smith
Ray Charles, please sing!
Oh, you don't like the things I have to say, well okay, just go ahead and kiss my grits!
Alabama native Polly Holliday portrayed Flo, a sassy waitress on the TV show "Alice," in the late 1970s. She coined the phrase "Kiss my grits!" ~Wikipedia
What's a Christmas without you
another lonely day feeling blue
an empty chair at my table
holding on is something I'm not able
to do without you
Off somewhere in a distant place
something I missed I can not face
but in reflections of a lonely Christmas Night
I wish things could have turned out right
The Showdown
(A lone voice whispers)
I once knew Love
But like a bullet fired from
Wyatt Earp's Colt 45
It struck me down in the only showdown of my life
Now I walk around like a reborn sick Doc Holliday
Wondering
How alone
I'll finish my play and stay alive
(C) Copyright John Duffy
“Don’t take candy from a stranger,”
My mother said,
Unless you’re dressed like Frankenstein
With a hideous mask on your head.
If Christmas is about a baby’s birth,
Why do we buy trinkets and bobbles,
For all daddy’s worth?
When that baby died,
And rose from the dead,
To celebrate they told me,
A rabbit can lay an egg.
Someday, someone will bring back de Blues
Crying songs of yesterday
When we were young
When no better than de hurting songs were sung
Heartbreak caused us all to bruise
Someday, another Billie Holliday will rise up
A Bessie, Howlin’ Wolf, and Bobby Bland
Ella belting from de heart
Their deep-down message from de start
Blip, blub-a-do, wop, bip-bop a ‘bup.
written September 9, 2021
Just let me win ten grand
I could piece my life back together
And still vacation on the sand
I could hold out for a good job
Take care of my daughters like before
Maybe even fix the dent
In my mercury tracers door
I could be the best santa claus ever
(my house burnt down last x-mas eve)
A christmas they'd remember forever
A few extra grand would help acheive
During my holliday season
What will surely make me weep
If you truly can't buy happiness
Then why is misery so damn cheap
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