Long Pam Poems

"Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces"

                    John Ruskin, 1853


I think of youth’s sweet...

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I’m here, in this terror.
 Blood, blood puddles everywhere
like after a demonic storm of rain, but instead it’s human red liquid .
Splattering,
leaking and escaping.  
More of it appears
at each second .
Tick, splat. Tock splat 
two...

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CONTINUES PART II:

Then she departs, ... his newfound friend
stands (clueless me, no intro of her) I with Rick ... waiting
wife comes--(Hellooo Oh) newfound by brochure stand
he says, "My wife Kris." "Hm" <--(My utterance--smiling, as I'm...

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War leaves scars. They are emotional. They are physical. They are spiritual.

My brother had proposed to my sister-in-law on Valentine's Day, and so it was on that fateful day, 12 years later that his and...

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There is a large cattle property in the Northern Territory of Australia
   where the bores are named after Famous cricketers and that prompted 
    this piece.

    ...

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Green eggs, Spam and grits
Sam and Pam had their fill,
Then made their way to Main Street
Down WhoDat’s Whatsup Hill.

Waived "Hi!" to their neighbors
To show them that they cared.
All smiled except two who
Just stood there and...

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When I was just a  little girl, we lived by railroad tracks;
we loved the steamy, smoky stacks, the wheels clickety clack.
On many days we would find, knocking at our door,
a hobo who had jumped...

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The day after my cousin died from cancer…no let me start with I prayed hard…I mean hard…with unrelenting fervor…convinced until there was no further reason to pray…to pray. I bothered friends relentlessly…the heavens were stirring...

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3:15 a.m. 
 It was a crappy, wet, rainy dog-hiding drizzly morning.
Anthony woke up in a bad mood, with a sore throat, that got worse when he looked out the window.
Of course, the obstinate dog...

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When I was a lad and somewhat brash
I often read the poems of Ogden Nash,
whose humourous rhymes on many themes,
was motivation for my own poetic dreams.

Later when I took to reading Edgar Allen Poe,
more of...

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America...

After 9/11, the country seemed reborn
Ready to shift from the shallow to the profound

What ever happened to the America that could have been?
What ever happened to the America we deserve?

Step into my church
And pray
For a...

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One December Night

     Susan, Joy, Marsha, and Pam crawled out of their beds to eat bacon and ham.
Their parents were sleeping.  They snored while the slept.  The children tiptoed...

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It feels like a lifetime ago...
     when I had the strength and endurance of two people.
Why I could work inside or outside for 6 to 8 hrs. without difficulty.
I could get...

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As the world turns
my stomach does too
knowing that all my children
are confused, unemployed
and young and restless
all the day through,
and my husband of 30 years
decided to leave me 
for someone younger,
says hes going through
a mid-life crisis,
what...

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Im going to tell you a story about a girl.
She was smart, and ready to take on the world.
Had a hard childhood with her mother always ill,
but her father worked hard and struggled to pay...

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Happiness is slowly leaving me
taking away the essence of what I used to be
The light that shone from my eyes is nearly gone
The twinkle and sparkle has faded away
making me feel so all alone
Laughter, passion...

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I'd Love To Meet You Both
******************
The topics you have mentioned all relevant, still to this day.
It's like I know your husband, for I too, know just what to say!
You didn't mention world pollution, especially microplastic
Are...

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Her soul, a fusion divine,

Music intertwine 

Where Something meets stormy seas, 

And Eleanor Rigby finds her sweet release.


She sings the Ballad of John and Yoko's strife,

While Howlin' Wolf's ghost haunts the night,

Her voice a whiskey-soaked...

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Commendable inspection outcome June 13th, 2023

Schwenksville scribe set himself task
re: expresses glad tiding
forthwith for public views
in consonant with figurative
elbow grease did use
yielded nothing but rave reviews
as attested courtesy
eager disbelievers waiting in long queues
could hardly contain...

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In this age of 'Instant Karma' happiness is turned away,
'All you need is love' to guide you well at least that's what they say,
'In my life' I've witnessed miracles the ghost of 'Yesterday',
When a certain...

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Hello Everyone.  My entry below is a dedication to both the late Gungalo and the late Erich Goller.  These two poets left earth and the poetry world before their time.  Gungalo left...

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Our lives are so filled with negatives that we often forget about the positives.
We have convinced ourselves that bad news sells, and the good news is a side story at best.    ...

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I'm not too overly computer sav v y.
I tried putting a Hefty bag in my recycle bin.
I signed up for free instant messenger.  He was at my door by the last keystroke.
I started to...

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Once upon a time in a kingdom far away 
Lived the good King Eric and his good Queen Maggie May. 
King Eric stood at the parapet and waved down to his people, 
Gathering up their...

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once upon a human

two kids named
ahmad and stan

each in his world 
loved reading Peter Pan

didn't see it coming
their dreams broken
down by the khazarian plan

they fell for their division
train 
United by same grief and
pain

so abrupt was...

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