Hm. Nes Poems

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21.
Fair Weather Friends

Fair weather friends
I like the most
Because I like fair weather
Besides,
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22.
From An Irish Slave Boy

The rooster is crowing- The water is boiling
For tea and the waking of all that I love;
While far in the distance, from waters that bless us,
Come rumblings, as thunderous wrath from above
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23.
Superstar

Touted to be something more than
You could possibly be
More than you are
More, always more
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24.
Gentle Birch, Assailing Wind

The wind assails the gentle birch-
She clings to dirt
And deeply sends foundation roots
Like straws to tap earth's bosom-
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25.
Too Late The Cello Sang

'Too late, ' the cello sang.
In misty stillness mourned the twilight-
Thomas Caster Abernathy took his life.
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26.
The Best Part Of My Day And All My Night

Morning light arouses eager longings each day new.
I rise; yet your arms grasp and hold me tight,
Lingering in the stillness of our happy rendezvous-
The best part of my day and all my night.
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27.
You Can'T Trust A Nigger With A Gun

The graves we dug in the pourin' rain
With enemy fire still a comin' down.
The mud so deep, feared I might be drowned
And laid 'side them who was done with pain.
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28.
Basketball: The Beginning

What the Springfield 'Y' needs most, 'they' say,
Is good old athletic distraction
For the rowdy boys stuck inside all day
By the weather. So the 'Y' took action:
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29.
Dublin

The children play in the streets, they say-
The children play in the streets;
While the ships dock fast in Dublin Bay,
The children play in the streets
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30.
I Wish I'd Held The Moment

I wish I'd held the moment,
Wish I'd understood the meaning,
Wish I'd called the very minute fever broke.
I wish I'd moved to Memphis
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