Katherine Tylor McCall Poems

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1.
A Texas Ballad March

well katrina gave em the old one-two
as weather down south is wont to do
so they put that foot in the other shoe
and kept a-right on marching
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2.
Sonnet On The River Nile

Her streets gleam not, but lie in disrepair
The sun does shimmer down through smog of grey
A stench sometimes does filter through the air
The lanes for cars, they go naught but one way
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3.
Sonnet On The African Continent

My continent cries tears of blood and rain,
Her sons and daughters by the millions die;
Each country does it's heard rear up in pain
While children for their mothers, countless, cry.
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4.
Consequences Of A U.S. Soldier In Iraq

Well I' been sittin' thinkin' here,
Sippin' on a pint O' beer,
Wonderin' why she went an' left me all alone.
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5.
My House And It's Architecture And I; A Eulogy And Ramble

We had no choice but to sell the house,
Well, the land on which it sits at least.

Our huge wooded lot a fool might accuse us of wasting-
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6.
Just A Man (An 'Invictus' Of Sorts)

Just a man,
Just a being,
Some humble creature of evolution.
To what does he owe this endless toil?
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7.
The Mermaid

Her tail shimmers as she darts across the crystal sea.
Her lovely hair does seem to glimmer,
Tantalizing me.
This lovely creature all alone,
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8.
Hate And Death

Thou shalt not hate,
For Hate is Death,
And Death is a horrid thing.
So Hate and Death are partners-
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9.
A Cow-Pokes Hound

Get along, little doggy-
To that great big bye-and-bye,
Herdin' Cattle 'cross them clouds-
On that ranch up in the sky,
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