Seems a long time ago, Tina / Will Dockery (My top 100)

André Hugo

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Aug 21, 2019, 7:25:45 PM8/21/19

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Seems a long time ago, Tina

Staring at a picture book
as cellos saw away outside
Photographs of 1981
Seems very real to me
such a regal lady
but it is another land
far away
before I threw it all away
for her
I know that truth still echoes
and hurts
and just reminds me just how
confused the gambles made
could sometimes be.

Tina maybe some days
do you remember Dunkin' Dine
when we would go there
and play the little juke
box that was on all the tables?
George Harrison
remembered John and
"All those years ago."
Played The Who a lot:
as we looked into each others' eyes
and swore this would stick:
"You better, you better you bet!"
Six months later
all, and I do mean all...
was lost.

Tina like a painting
in my memory
with your long red cartoon hair
green tiger eyes
deep and pure with honesty
just about as tall as me
as we clinched together like
Leonard Cohen's crucifix
a raving beauty
of fire and ice and a sparkle of green.

Game for any games
I could think of
you were always taking
the photos
and rarely appeared in any
in Summer of 1981.

Now I wish I had insisted more
took the camera
to for a moment be an artist
so I could see you
just a little while
but then again no.

Because even now I know folks
who like
being the photographer
because that is being
the artist
of the work
and that was you
in Summer of 1981.

I probably never mentioned
to you
at the time
since I'm not sure which of you
I was talking with
more that day
that I had a camera
filled with photos
of me and you
of me and Kathy and Clay
and those mutual cousins
in our scene.

As always running in a hurry
with my mind
filled with doubt and worry
I left that camera
sitting on a table
at Church's Chicken
across the street
from the Varsity Jr. hot dog stand
on Lindberg Drive
second guessing as time passed by.

It was out of my sight
for five minutes
flashing by
as I would expect now
36 years of perspective later
it was gone
when I got back.

I asked the employees
but nobody would admit
the camera
was ever there
it was only a few minutes
one of those employees
had to have
stolen that camera.

This would be
a whole roll
of photos of us
from that same time period
these photos of
Summer 1981...
as we strolled
barefoot
on Cheshire Bridge Road

And the shortcut
through the back streets
giggling
at the gay guys
outside Sweet Gum Head bar
two green haired
punk rock boys
kissing
declared their love
like we did
that month in Summer 1981.

Tina I see you closed
that picture book
that box filled with your
poetry and trinkets
from a bygone modern age
I see you waving goodbye
that was so long ago!

-Will Dockery

(I think this is the most complete version, so far... continue the
discussion here, folks, please...)

--
Music & poetry from Will Dockery & Friends:
http://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery

Today I begin my list of the Top 100 poems by Doc and in honor of my lovely friend Tina, I open the list with his poem of love for her.....

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Will Dockery

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Aug 24, 2019, 1:07:13 AM8/24/19

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Thanks for the endorsement, High Number.

:)

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Will Dockery

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Aug 24, 2019, 4:52:56 PM8/24/19

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> So, this is #1....
>
> https://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery/song/26238127-morning-my-life--will-dockery?source=artistMusic
>
> Is #2...……..

Interesting lead offs, General Zod, yes, this will indeed make another fine chapbook collection.

;)

Brainiac Five

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Aug 24, 2019, 5:15:39 PM8/24/19

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That would be of interest......

I will remember to perhaps make most of my choices to be different from the G.D. collection.........

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ibsh...@gmail.com

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Aug 24, 2019, 11:26:06 PM8/24/19

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Excellent work.

Will Dockery

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Aug 25, 2019, 12:50:04 AM8/25/19

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Thanks for reading and commenting, Ilya.

:)

Brainiac Five

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Aug 25, 2019, 4:37:07 AM8/25/19

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On Saturday, August 24, 2019 at 11:26:06 PM UTC-4, ibsh...@gmail.com wrote....

Hello, good to see you, Ilya S.

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Will Dockery

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Aug 25, 2019, 10:55:20 PM8/25/19

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On Sunday, August 25, 2019 at 5:40:30 PM UTC-4, Bodeen wrote:

> Good work Doc......
>
> Kudos............

Thanks for the nod, General Zod.

;)

Bodeen

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Aug 26, 2019, 1:18:16 AM8/26/19

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> Thanks for the nod, General Zod.

You are welcome Doc....

Will Dockery

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Aug 26, 2019, 6:32:29 PM8/26/19

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Good choice, Zod.

:)

High Number

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Aug 28, 2019, 6:06:54 AM8/28/19

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Agreed Doc.......

Victor Hugo Jr

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Aug 30, 2019, 5:05:35 PM8/30/19

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I thank ye Ilya......

And for Pendragon.... this is poem number one....

Michael Pendragon

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Aug 30, 2019, 7:15:46 PM8/30/19

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One poem doth not a list make.

Try again, Stinker.

Victor Hugo Jr

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Aug 30, 2019, 9:10:16 PM8/30/19

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You have already been told there are four or five out of 100 already listed.....

Try to keep up Pendragon, you stupid motherfucker.....

Michael Pendragon

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Aug 30, 2019, 9:18:28 PM8/30/19

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Separate posts do not constitute a list. A list of 100 (ordered from 1-100) should appear as a single post.

Victor Hugo Jr

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Aug 30, 2019, 9:21:00 PM8/30/19

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That shall be done in due time, you stupid motherfucker.....

Michael Pendragon

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Aug 30, 2019, 9:25:47 PM8/30/19

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Who's the stupid 60-year old motherfucker who never learned how to write a list?

Victor Hugo Jr

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Aug 30, 2019, 9:27:56 PM8/30/19

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You do your list your way I will do my list my way...……….

Kapish….?

Michael Pendragon

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Aug 30, 2019, 10:41:03 PM8/30/19

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Do whatever you want, Stinko.

Just don't call it a "list"... and if you could do it somewhere else, I'm sure we'd all appreciate it.

> Kapish….?

Yes, I tend to wear army caps around the house in the Summer.

Bodeen

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Sep 1, 2019, 8:47:28 AM9/1/19

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Except that it is in fact a list......

Michael Pendragon

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Sep 1, 2019, 1:58:51 PM9/1/19

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On Sunday, September 1, 2019 at 8:47:28 AM UTC-4, Bodeen wrote:
> Except that it is in fact a list......

The only fact, Stinky, is that you're incapable of sustaining a train of thought long enough to compile a list of that size.

Will Dockery

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Sep 1, 2019, 2:07:03 PM9/1/19

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I think, or rather the way I see it, General Zod's list will differ from the current list, enough to be a projection for a second volume of collected poetry:

Selected Poems (1976-2019): Will Dockery

https://pennyspoetry.fandom.com/wiki/Act_of_Will_by_Will_Dockery

Okay, here's the cut as of June 2019, still subject to tweeking and additions, as I remember them:

Apple Montage 2017
Bluebird v
Shadowville Speedway Blues 2009 v
Ganesha Girl on Rankin v
Ragpicker Joe v
At the Taco Stand v
Frayed Page Soaked in Rain v
from Saint Augustine Blues
Chorus 5
Chorus 6
Sky Song v
When the Mill Shut down
Signposts on the Outskirts 1976 v
Behind the Forest 1999 v
Looking over the Bridge (Built in 1936) 1999 v

A Certain Music v
Wave, 1999 v
To the Sea Angel, 1997 v
Sunglass 2003 v
Mari in 1982 v
Tuesday with Little Spain 1997 v
A Green Glow at Midnight 2017 v
Winterworld Descending
Stopwatch
She Loves Bossa Nova
Swamp Street Exile
Nightmare Tears v
In a Dream I Saved You 2018 v
Tired of Waiting
Picture Book Stares Back v
Life during Reconstruction 2017
Twilight Girl
Deep Blue Sassafras 2018

Conversational Abyss v
Decima for Decima v
Haiku 417 v
Haiku You
Modern Memory v
Picture Book Stares Back v
River Haiku v
Winter Heat (2017) v

That's about 40 poems, a good even number for a poetry collection, without overload to the reader.

HTH & HAND.

High Number

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Sep 1, 2019, 4:11:47 PM9/1/19

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What a fool you are, Pendragon.... my list is in progress....

Bodeen

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Sep 2, 2019, 12:10:42 AM9/2/19

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That looks excellent does GJD understand you have deleted or shelved as you say a few of the poems.....?

George J. Dance

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Sep 2, 2019, 4:24:27 PM9/2/19

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Yes. Will's been making his changes on the same editing page as I have, so we both see what the other person's saying and doing. We're still debating a few poems, mind you; I took out some of the ones Will wanted to cut, but left in some others; we're still discussing a few. (You'll find them easily because i bumped them all in the process of making my case for keeping them.)

Will Dockery

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Sep 2, 2019, 4:39:06 PM9/2/19

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> Yes. Will's been making his changes on the same editing page as I have, so we both see what the other person's saying and doing. We're still debating a few poems, mind you; I took out some of the ones Will wanted to cut, but left in some others; we're still discussing a few. (You'll find them easily because I bumped them all in the process of making my case for keeping them.)

I'm seeing the "shaping" of a narrative in what you're doing, G.J.D. and in many ways it is a pleasing build, actually makes me think of what The Who did with Quadrophenia and Tommy, what they called a "rock opera" and "mini epic".

https://pennyspoetry.fandom.com/wiki/Act_of_Will_by_Will_Dockery

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General Zod

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Oct 1, 2019, 12:58:15 AM10/1/19

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On Monday, September 2, 2019 at 4:24:27 PM UTC-4, George J. Dance wrote:
> On Monday, September 2, 2019 at 12:10:42 AM UTC-4, Zod wrote:

> > On Sunday, September 1, 2019 at 2:07:03 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > On Sunday, September 1, 2019 at 1:58:51 PM UTC-4, Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > > > On Sunday, September 1, 2019 at 8:47:28 AM UTC-4, Bodeen wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Except that it is in fact a list......
> > > >
> > > > The only fact, Stinky, is that you're incapable of sustaining a train of thought long enough to compile a list of that size
> > >

> Yes. Will's been making his changes on the same editing page as I have, so we both see what the other person's saying and doing. We're still debating a few poems, mind you; I took out some of the ones Will wanted to cut, but left in some others; we're still discussing a few. (You'll find them easily because i bumped them all in the process of making my case for keeping them.)

Fabulous....

Zod

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Oct 1, 2019, 11:30:26 PM10/1/19

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So, this is #1....

https://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery/song/26238127-morning-my-life--will-dockery?source=artistMusic

Is #2...……..

High Number

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Oct 2, 2019, 4:55:58 PM10/2/19

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On Saturday, August 24, 2019 at 1:07:13 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:

> Thanks for the endorsement, High Number.
>
> :)

Right on Doc....

Perry Winkle

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Oct 3, 2019, 2:53:29 PM10/3/19

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On Monday, September 2, 2019 at 4:24:27 PM UTC-4, George J. Dance wrote:

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Thanks G.J.D.

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Gener...@none.i2p

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Oct 5, 2019, 8:52:08 AM10/5/19

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More of my TOP 100 coming shortly..........!

High Number

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Oct 6, 2019, 5:47:41 PM10/6/19

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Good work Doc......

Kudos............

General Zod

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Oct 9, 2019, 4:04:25 AM10/9/19

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On Sunday, August 25, 2019 at 10:55:20 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:

> Thanks for the nod, General Zod.
>
> ;)

N.P.

Will Dockery

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Dec 24, 2019, 5:11:21 PM12/24/19

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Bumped for Jordy:

On Tuesday, December 24, 2019 at 4:29:40 PM UTC-5, JD Chase wrote:
>
> And he just said that he giggled, that seems harmless enough, doesn’t it? he didn’t say that he spouted homophonic slurs and beat gay people up...

Plus, the line needs to be read in context, in the poem:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.arts.poetry.comments/bQ-83C9EGlo/jMUrzvQJAgAJ

Seems a long time ago, Tina / Will Dockery

HTH & HAND.

JD Chase

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Dec 24, 2019, 5:22:59 PM12/24/19

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Thanks Will, nothing whatsoever offensive about the poem, Imo... 😊☺️🙏🍸

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Will Dockery

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Dec 25, 2019, 1:50:10 PM12/25/19

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On Tuesday, December 24, 2019 at 5:22:59 PM UTC-5, JD Chase wrote:
>
> Thanks Will, nothing whatsoever offensive about the poem, Imo... 😊☺️🙏🍸

Thanks for reading and commenting, J.D.

;)

Zod-The...@none.i2p

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Dec 25, 2019, 3:33:12 PM12/25/19

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JD Chase wrote on Tue, 24 December 2019 22:22

> Thanks Will, nothing whatsoever offensive about the poem, Imo... 😊☺️🙏🍸

EXactly..............

Another lie of the trolls exposed..................

General Zod

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Dec 26, 2019, 5:58:39 PM12/26/19

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On Tuesday, December 24, 2019 at 5:22:59 PM UTC-5, JD Chase wrote:
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> Thanks Will, nothing whatsoever offensive about the poem, Imo... 😊☺️🙏🍸

Agreed and seconded….

Zod-The...@none.i2p

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Jan 13, 2020, 6:49:56 PM1/13/20

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JD Chase wrote on Tue, 24 December 2019 22:22

> Thanks Will, nothing whatsoever offensive about the poem, Imo... 😊☺️🙏🍸

Agreed and seconded.....!!

Heath...@novabbs.i2p

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Feb 2, 2020, 10:48:44 PM2/2/20

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Will Dockery wrote on Tue, 24 December 2019 22:11

Exactly....