alphabetical list of poems by Bob Young
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it feels like a fire-hose was
just shot up my
ass
I cannot stop laughing
this happiest laugh
one I’ve ...
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Dear sweet Triune God, from within my heart,
please guide my day.
Help my eyes to see ...
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bound antelope!
stood sky while still
waited and the prairie
rolled the earth gently
gishi bian
2007
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upper-class life
venerable image prayer
perfect about change
no tricks
they are told
just the events wished to convey
real ...
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a secluded swelling longboat
a lone captain
a deep and undulating lapis wave
a single gold leaf
a twirling drift
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for the cross, they went
for an inhale was hard
he gurgled a bit now and then
he died
once ...
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there’s a BBQ tonight
everybody is welcome
that sounds good
huh
yea
BBQ
triple marinated ribs
all put on by ...
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birth twice aisle
camping recreational standard vehicle
harvest exotic fruit red yellows
cop stomach flashing critical
snow cold leaves laugh
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at a dinner tonight
a small dinner
put on by Cathy’s big brother
my college roommate
before the three of ...
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daily sunshine
come for summer gone
hungry ate across
little hare lake
foot above
fresh snow floated
it was a get ...
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so the day moves on
no incredible happenings
a bit of wind
a bit of rain
sparrows litter the concrete
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how am I
well, iv,
I’d have ta say I’m fine
a bit tired
two days being out six hours ...
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you are known to never
not
persist.
known, however, to
surprise with a coax a
steeplechase a
bark
a ...
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etched sponges
floating
before a blue and pink sunset
i rock on the porch
and notice.
-bazers cloy 28 oct ...
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why
boats
that was the ponder
and fishermen
why would Jesus (a carpenter)
ask fishermen (experts ...
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yea
i’m sorta blue
bad news on the
cancer now
shit, N., sometimes
i feel like somethin’ is
chasin’ me
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if we heard
we might
not (list)en
at all
“here’s some change – go get your mother some flowers”
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have you been hit
mauled
whipped
raped
or otherwise violated
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winsome tracks exploding
if winsome is the goal
then it’s the end too
because suffering attends our every move
whether ...
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Lush bosky and supple fields near freshwater
The Shepherd has now piloted us to a pasture for
Restoration and ...
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cool breeze
snuck inside my window
just now
caressed me
i knew it was there
flowers
out of her head
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brimming
weighty
ablaze
aglow
tulips
sutures
slaps
and slams
do we chalk-one-up
ante up
apprehend
gander
auscultate
do ...
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the chandelier is lit with candles
it’s before the days of kerosene or gaslights
the stars play the companion view tonight
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i see a tricycle
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File past the jail cells.
Don’t look in
smell what could be
old socks
balled up under a bed,
your ...
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Much layed flat
Much grew straight-up
Much had no clock
Much felt sad
Much had joy
Much went bananas, in ...
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yea
he told me so many things
and some of them were true
before I started kindergarten
...
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the awkish pear fell wildly
by the dog’s face
and the dog (like the sun)
turned yellow
and barked
and ...
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i ain’t thinkin’
bout much
but tangle bush
and bramble weed
flys on my legs
wasps on my nose
leaves
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cat eyes)
uses the man
callus works
lap-dog silly
pinched by: blue blue blue
water(L) bucket ...
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one morning
sitting by the water
mist tumbles
over the foreground of water
the backdrop is
new spring trees
billowing ...
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it’s okay bobby
i know
that i know too
that i wish i didn’t know
there’s always that
i’ll be ...
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poet’s death
thrust this primary grief
strength will pass
hair pulling
wailing
crying
womanly grief
choked by thundering sea waves
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I never could swing the bat and then make it hit anything
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the dog
open road rolling
dirt
blooming high plains flowers
brush
horizon
barbed wire picket fence stretched ahead
like eyes ...
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or days that
seem scattered
a dust storm’s
tooth pick boxes
flung
senses
slammed open
halt
weep-time
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the light the light
say
hello to
somebody
anybody
...
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and it’s you S.,
it’s you
you ain’t got no reason
this is all way out of
season
you see ...
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as i danced
deep
within a Sherwood of
forests
i came upon an unusually
large tree
it beckoned
and i ...
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trampoline dog
whispers of blindness
trousers that fit
faith with bronze fitting surety
the delight of being delighted in
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they dragged the boy
I can see his face so scared
the men had killin’ on their mind
Emmett, the ...
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Chickasaw
Chickasaw
never got
there
not sure i got
anywhere
‘cept here
gotta a friend
there in
Chickasaw
turns out ...
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it’s a very tall fire
reaching
reaching high into the dark
all the books are burning
there is the crackle ...
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Ship’s
Rudders ripped
Stanchion pickled
Times yell hell
Hell
And walk your way there
Egg
Dripping
Face shamed
Newspapers
...
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in the tradition
of those who practice
Judaism, today and long ago
18 minutes before sundown
each Friday
candles ...
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my ankle, yes
like my wrist
it’s in an iron trap
gishi bian
23 mayo 2020
5:09 am mst usa
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i had it all mapped out
philosophy
problems
solutions
in the end
it has been about beer and pussy
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my brother became a grampa yesterday
and I can say
my heart soared
like an eagle does
he’s a ...
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yellow dogs
babies wide eyed
french toast railing about butter
picture frame empty
sun bearing down
been given another day
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further emphasize pursuit
salvation
ass develops
picaresque mini-arcs mirrors
miniaturizes the dual narrative psyche
intervention stabbing socrates neck
bladder pieces ...
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there he was
with
that new suck machine
applying it to the
carpet in the car
the rubber
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loving Jesus is
a lot like loving Jesus
it’s not like loving flowers
or trees
or mountains
it’s loving the ...
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in Alabama is also
darkness
fat snakes
and winged beasts on prey
ha
every third block is a church
always ...
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sometimes we dream
sometimes we suffer
sometimes we bump into walls
sometimes the wall bumps into us
sometimes there is ...
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texas
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time
day
light
deep earthen receptacles on fire, for
Walt.
the Disney Walt.
Snow White &
Bill Cosby mickeys
the ...
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