Short Newport Poems

we're drinking Mad Dog
outside Seven Eleven
when in Newport News...

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A young gentlemen named Grant Cragnell
Sought debauchery in Newport Pagnell
He got terribly drunk
Before sharing his bunk
With a midget and a brown cocker spaniel...

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nineteen-eighty-three
reporting onboard
USS Nimitz
she was in dry dock

Lee’s Restaurant 
in Newport News
was my hangout
in shipyard days

playing pool
making friends
Budweiser

fine food
large tab

nice...

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ship was almost bare'
Christmas Nineteen-Eighty-Three
Newport News dry dock
time was three A.M
there was a flooding somewhere
inport  fire party
disaster no more
duty section back to sleep
no elves were needed...

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She was a strip dancer named Shuga Shoes,

   Who did gigs in a pub in Newport News.

      'Twas well-known she liked the sauce,

         Which did not amuse the boss!

            Of jobs she was stripped and now sings the blues!

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
(c) All Rights Reserved...

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newport, ohio
two bars for the thirsty
one catholic church 
for the sinners to be forgiven
one gas station
so us country folk
don't run out of gas
one big country concert
in july up the road
one 75 year old man
who runs  a quiet 
slaughter house
a quaint little town
on a busy state route...

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First Name Monica

Mother, Friend, Lover, Grand-daughter

Sister of Raymond

Lover of Art, Long Drives,  Rainy Days

Who Feels Pain, Passion and Longing

Who Fears Losing Love, Regret, Heights

Who would like to see His face again, Greece and Italy

Resident of Newport News, VA

 Last Name Evette...

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newport, ohio
one man butcher
pizza palace
boozed drunks riding four wheelers or
riding horses through woods on tow path in winter
air filled with burning greens
causing fog to roll down to family owned gas station
yet on the horizon
the sportsman club
gleams with sharp lights as 
shooters aim to win
on the other horizon
congregation singing every sat. night 
and sunday morning...

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Getting back in the groove
of living in Newport News.
Me and my lovely wife,
readjusting to apartment life.
It was fate that said,
If you wanna go far,
it's time you got a new car.
Still we enjoy the biweekly routine
if you know what I mean.
And since I'm putting this in ink,
It's just what you think.
Got some new med's
messing with my head
before I go to bed.
Enough said......

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City lights sparkling,
mirrored in the Bay,
multi-colored jewels— 
amber, rose, and green,
crystal, diamond-white—
gracing bridge and buildings—
mansions, pubs, and shops—
fanciful reflections of
countless points of intrigue.
Neurons, lives entwining—
schemes, ideas, and passions—
complex as a motherboard,
vibrant as a heartbeat,
fertile and entrancing,
as though fashioned by a
cosmic magician’s spell....

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‘Maybe I could spend the night? Just to talk.’
she whispered; Marissa knew what to do;
Well maybe, she did like him; Probably;
Time to do more than mindlessly jaywalk;
For once there was no drama to cut through;
Home was this feeling, he fit perfectly;
Ryan had to stay he couldn’t just go;
This was unfamiliar, scary and new,
a tidal wave in her zen Newport sea;
Rocky was the new beat, the audio 
                     O. C....

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Shoes Galore

What can I say?
Shoes make the personality of the day
Some red, white
Multicolored and bright
Or black and elegantly mysterious
Just for the night
The travels that take are near and far
Boston, Newport, Biloxi and more
Some are high
Some are low
Many different fashions just raring to go
Shoes shout out look at me!
Buy me!
Styling in shoes
Is the way to be
Once removed, their life fades away
And patiently that await
Wear another day!...

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