Short Wendell Poems

O-ppressive
L-ink
I-n
V-iciousness
E-mploys
R-abidity

W-ith
E-nemy's
N-astiness
D-uring
E-pidemic
L-etting
L-ethal

H-azard's
O-nerous
L-oad
M-orbidly
E-ndorse
S-ickness

Topic: Poet (Oliver Wendell Holmes) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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I guess I'm the greatest poet who ever lived;
The guru of words and a master of tempo
Who knows no rival at any time perceived
To be equal or better than he.

I reckon Wendell was good and Shakespeare great
As well as Wordsworth and Poe and Longfellow and all,
But none of them managed my overcomimg of fate
To pen verse as good as mine....

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Florida Evans
Ethel Mertz
Theodore Huxtable
Michael Scott
Mary Albright
Bob Vance 
Dr. Johnny Fever
George Jefferson
Esther Anderson
Mayor Quimby
J.J. Evans 
Lily Aldrin
Lisa Douglas
Gloria Stivic
Uncle Fester
Oliver Wendell Douglas
Arnold Ziffel
Archie Bunker
Gomez Addams
Baldrick
Gomer Pyle
Lord Percy Percy
Grady Wilson
Wally Cleaver...

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I tickled her
Hi there, my name is 
What do you mean you have

Wait!
Stop and think!
Shouldn’t these sentences have endings
Like?

I tickled her Wendell
Hi there, my name is crabs
What do you mean you have fancy?

Wait!
That’s not it!

I tickled her crabs
Hi there, my name is fancy
What do you mean you have Wendell?

Oh damn!
Forget about it!...

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Today I’m thankful for all our Veterans…
and I pray our country strives to make all our veteran’s futures bright
by offering them as much support when they return…
as we did when se sent them off to fight

And I hope our now divided country
will never forget… what our veterans were fighting for:

(As Oliver Wendell Holmes said:)

One Flag,
One land
One heart
One hand
One nation…evermore...

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A Broken Man. 

A mans heart may fail,  and beat slowly, 
A mans eyes may dim, and not see as clearly. 
A mans strength may weaken, and his pace may be slow. 
A mans thought may be confused with disease. 
A mans voice may change with age. 
A mans touch may be altered with pain. 

But a man is not known by his age or strength, 
But by the friends he has made along the way, 
And by his kindness his life will ever be restored. 


Wendell Mays...

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"Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet."  ~Wendell Berry                                                 

Find
A quiet place
A quiet spot
A quiet time
to sit quietly and just listen…
the flowers giggling
the winds whispering
the mountains and the seas
humming in unison;

Shhh, be quiet! Listen…

the spirits of the universe
are trying to speak to you.


~03/31/23
~contest: Writing Challenge 'Q' words
~Sponsor: Constance La France....

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Silently I wait on you,
silently I pray.
Silently I wait on you,
to help me start the day.

Hopefully I wait on you,
to give the direction I need.
Hopefully I wait on you Lord,
to guide me and also lead.

Quietly I wait on you,
in all my silent prayers.
Quietly I wait on you,
for I know you will soon be near.

Expectantly I wait on you,
with the assurance you will come.
Expectantly I wait on You,
knowing the battle is already won.


Wendell A. Brown
Copyright 2010,
All Rights Reserved....

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