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Oskar Hansen's Bridge Over Troubled Waters
Progressive historians are thoseWho forget what they chooseAnd remember to embellishWhat they wish.They say, 'justice is blind'But this is just..
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Orlando Belo Puts The Squeeze On The Lemon
A lemon's sour,Not bitter as you exclaimSo the fruit makes you puckerAnd for that there is no shame.When it get a little well chosen aidFrom sugar..
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On Words
For some its rap with its cadenceOthers prefer a slow waltz in a flowing senseBut words in joy regardless of the deliveryAre meant to tease and..
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On The Trail
He stood before usIdyly kicking the sandspurs from his footArms and legs covered with dustRiinglets circled his neck.Toenails embedded with a layer..
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On The Shearing Of Cavorting Sheep
Brunel, an ass of note, had a dreamIn which he was on a plainBetween the mountains and the seaWhere all lived in great prosperity.The Beginning –But..
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On The Public Greed
Some find things before they are lostRegardless of the owner's costHaving gained what others have paid forThe value is not worth a penny more.For as..
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On The Goodness Of Dry Cured Hams
Pause for a moment and reflectWhen was there something more perfect?This ham moist, but oh so dryAs the perfectionist would decry.Cry out how good it..
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Smoking, anxiety, obesity
Burns was once challenged to writeA poem on a new object or siteSo he began to describe what he in his mind sawA calf, that grew as he on paper did..
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On Smoking And Obesity
Some years agoWhen one's anxiety was aglowWould light up a smoke and take puffThen slowly exhaling, was enoughTo release the tensions withinAnd go on..
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On Riding Tigers
When riding a tiger in the huntYou learn to dismountVery carefully so thatYou don't become the tiger's lunch.Such it is with Wall Street todayAs they..
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On Reading Thomas A. Bonnick's Voice In The Wilderness
Like the tree that fallsAnd no one hears the resounding echos,Did it actually fallAnd was there no sound at all?Such it is when TAB writesA poem that..
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On Ray Lucero's Poor Math Skills
Four plus one does not equal fiveOf Presidents alive.This isn't a math quiz but a reality checkOf Ray Lucero who counted four white and one blackAnd..
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On Old Age (As Viewed By Hermann Hesse)
Old age is a stage in our lives,and like all other stagesit has a face of its own,its own atmosphere and temperature,its own joys and miseries.We old..
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On Old Age - A Poem To Ivor Hogg
Once again I stop to thinkIs there a reason for all this stink,And then remember it's the dishes in the sinkThat were left when I went to take a..
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On Memory
Peanuts in their shells, asleepFor the next harvest so to keepAnd in the fall after the tendingBountiful harvest is intended.So it is that memories..
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On Life's Simple Pleasures
One need only to experience the eventThat is by Nature, the lingering scentComing to those near and farThat think only of the tar.The tar that so..
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On Liberated Women
T’is sad, t’is true,There is really nothing new.For in Hudibras of oldThe use of a bull’s pizzle is told*.Taken by the lady of the hourGives her..
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On Google Rankings
In days of yore(Actually two years shy of three score)Was a family by name of Gore.Being good citizens of TennesseeThey practiced a 'method' of..
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On Fugitive Poems
A fugitive poem is like being rescuedBy a fireman from a houseWhen there is no fireAnd when there is no house.Or, being saved when tiedTo the..
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On Criticism Of Poets By Other Poets
Critics of other's poetry need be remindedThat it is not a new sport intended,But one practiced years beforeWhen the other's ox, they intend to..
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On Considering Lew Webster’s Old Age
Seasons of the yearMake one’s memory clearOf events favorable in the pastWhile sorrow’s are but trying ghost.Welcome the coming seasonWith “come what..
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On Being There*
The senses awaken,Six in all to be taken.In the first burst of lightOn the screen; dim then brightA pattern, at first lost in the mazeEscapes as from..
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On Being Gay
How I wish others would not say;And misuse the word, gayFor in other times and placesGay had the meaning of happiness.Now for some reason unknownIt's..
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On Beauty As Seen By Dee
Sing out loud and longFor the praise is put where it does belongOn a subject that I professIs one about which I know less.But if you believe as you..
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