Long Kickoff Poems

They have been hiking  for a lifetime  landing upon harsh rocks and dry land, 
ragged and torn battered and bruised they are not coming to amuse.
Last night I watched the moon as it...

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Just because we wish it so, means not that it will pass;
this lesson’s one we all must learn in the Gamecock class. 
Runs my blood, it’s red and black---garnet the deepest hue,
any orange is anathema,...

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I sat in front of the TV to watch my football game,
When from out of the bedroom an order in my wife’s voice came.
“Honey could you fix me some Dr. Pepper, please, with lots of...

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Priest’s Palette
 
Looking in the mirror over the sun visor of our nine passenger 1959 Ford station wagon, which we really need with six children, Dad says he does not care for Ash Wednesday. ...

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Somewhere along the way,
I lost my me.
Where did he go?
He must be somewhere inside of me.

I know he’s in there somewhere;
Hiding behind the Dad I became much too early.
Or perhaps behind the façade of the...

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A daytime in Madrid
Gray sky overhead
The mist forms rows
Eyeing, hesitating
As spectators in a field
Hovering for kickoff

Masses of zealots
Shining bands of fans
In the style of a royal army
The sound of shoes trampling
Moving to a specific ground
Hovering...

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The symbol delta means change

Monroe, LA was the kickoff place

For Delta Airlines and Monroe, LA

Kicked it off to Atlanta, GA. Isn't

That deranged? And we wonder

Why we never had and/or lost

Economic growth.  

 

Well in...

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As the bright colors of the fall darken
and the rain and the wind hearken.
Drop of leaves from the tree greatly increases
while the temperature of the air decreases.  
And while many days are tempered and...

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Rattling and clanking
Starting after the November thermostat click.
I love the smell of the house 
When my dad would first turn on the furnace 
For the winter. 
It is a fungus-growing-on-rotting-tree smell,
Something slightly burning. 

Soon to...

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From the horizon will rise conflicts and progress
The later is better than the former in rebuilding
The fallen walls of the grand citadel amidst grass
To stand anew that tardy root that out shooting
In zealous nous to...

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We 
gather 
in towns
we congregate
in famous squares.
We are the new menace 
and we have chosen now 
to gather in this crumbling place.
For this is the year of the rabbit, a glorious season, 
a marvelous kingdom...

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 If you go to Villa Park
You'll be in for a lark.
From kickoff the opposition will look on fire
But that is because Villa are so dire.
The goals go in one two three four
By halftime it...

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When will there be time for what you need to
do,
Time made for work, for family, no time for
you,
Living on a paycheck day to day,
The number of hours at work dictates the amount of your pay,
Mon...

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