Short Laurence Poems

all the kings men said
laurence minot found to me
and needed to be...

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Laurence Welk's own bubble machine
Blew airheads inside the pop scene
So puffed up with air
That they did not care
A needle delivers vaccine...

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Like Laurence of Arabia in a camel race,
hump day can go by at a very fast pace,
while there are other times,
camel spits me in the eye,
and over the hump is no piece of cake.





11-2-16...

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L-iterary
A-uthor's
U-nique
R-egards
E-mploy
N-atal
C-omposition's
E-xcellent

P-oem
E-ndorsing
J-oyful
E-vent

Topic: Birthday of Laurence Peje (February 21) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Paul Laurence Dunbar
In terms of poetic excellence, he set a high bar 

He was called "the poet of his people", so adept
At writing his poems in African-American dialect


Date written and posted: 04/14/2019...

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M-essage
A-bout
R-emarkable
K-nowledge

L-ets
A-crostic
U-se
R-ighteous
E-xpression
N-icely
C-reating
E-xcellent

C-onnotation
A-s
S-cribe
A-pplies
U-nique
L-ine

Topic: Birthday of Mark Laurence Casaul (July 02) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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land of lost shadows
and unweathered skies

five urban colours
through unflinching eyes

tall distant chimneys
and schoolyards at play

smoke drifting sideways
in stillness each day

sketches on packets
of stained cigarettes

strange brooding faces
and marionettes

people bent walking
with heads looking down

 - if lowry was living
he'd have painted my town....

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