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JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

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South Louisiana

0 posted 2012-05-16 05:43 AM

The old woman, voodoo queen,
Made potions for dollar bills
For a quarter she'd bare a toothless grin
And shoo-shoo you away like a fly

Her potions were made from graveyard dirt
Swamp rats tongue and chicken gizzards
Pulverized hearts of executed men
And petrified alligator eyes

They came to her, young and old
Rich and trashy poor
Bringing their requests, a love scorned
And eye for an eye, a tooth fer sho

Behind a very secret back door
Everyone knew about
The old voodoo queen did her business
Even the sheriff feared to arrest her on lawful charges

People would come to the back door
Bringing their photographs, fingernail clippings
locks of hair
and the first few lines of a wistful wish.

©May 11, 2012 / Jerry Pat Bolton

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

MICHELMAS
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since 2012-02-15

Posts 305
Lancashire England

1 posted 2012-05-16 08:02 AM

mmmmm The head chef for Mcdonalds then.

Michael

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2012-05-16 08:06 AM

Yep. That'll work, Michael. Appreciate the comment.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

Lori Grosser Rhoden
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since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

3 posted 2012-05-16 08:14 AM

your swamp roots are showing in magnificent form my friend! Enjoyed!

Lori!

JerryPat2
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Posts 16975
South Louisiana

4 posted 2012-05-16 08:16 AM

Good morning, Lori, and thank you.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

5 posted 2012-05-16 08:37 AM

*smiling*

Now you've gone and planted a poem seed in me.

Tsk....laughing

Enjoyed this'n, and I am missing my old herb garden. I could use a comfrey poulstice 'bout now.

JerryPat2
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Posts 16975
South Louisiana

6 posted 2012-05-16 08:43 AM

Happy I could assist your magnificent Muse along this a.m., Karen.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

2islander2
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since 2008-03-12

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by the sea

7 posted 2012-05-16 11:17 AM

hello jerry, thanks for the rich experience, the enlighning and very well crafted poem,

yann

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

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South Louisiana

8 posted 2012-05-16 11:19 AM

Thank you, yann, for you very nice words and for visiting my place in the blue room.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

Startime1955
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since 2012-04-22

Posts 1072
Alberta, Canada

9 posted 2012-05-16 07:37 PM

Love this...and she did send me a bit of a storm...*grin* well done...*HUGS*

*may our dreams ever be magical*

JerryPat2
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South Louisiana

10 posted 2012-05-16 07:46 PM

Thank you so much, Karen, hope the storm was a lightweight one . . .

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

Startime1955
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since 2012-04-22

Posts 1072
Alberta, Canada

11 posted 2012-05-16 07:49 PM

*grin* I really love the heavy weight ones best...they are so powerful that they fill my soul and carry me away...*HUGS*

*may our dreams ever be magical*

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

12 posted 2012-05-16 08:01 PM

Ooops! Sorry. I'll put in a request to the Voodoo Woman for the next one to be heavy with plenty of thunder and lightning.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

Startime1955
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since 2012-04-22

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Alberta, Canada

13 posted 2012-05-16 09:44 PM

Thank you...*BIG HUGS*

*may our dreams ever be magical*

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

14 posted 2012-05-16 09:46 PM

You GOT it.

JerryPat2
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South Louisiana

15 posted 2012-05-16 09:55 PM

Fan-tas-tic!

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

16 posted 2012-05-16 11:17 PM

Any time that any one
can plant a poem of a seed
in serenity...

it's got to be a hit!

and ne'er a miss.

Good job, J!

ebonygirl
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since 2011-07-14

Posts 2000
California U.S.A

17 posted 2012-05-17 01:13 AM

Voodoo woman
dances, prances
inside beauty mezmo... rises

She so pretty
eyes of green
she gonna tell you 'bout yo dream.

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

18 posted 2012-05-17 05:37 AM

Johnny Appleseed of PiP doing his thing, Karilea. Heh Appreciate your words this morning.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

JerryPat2
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Posts 16975
South Louisiana

19 posted 2012-05-17 05:40 AM

MS E, beat the drums / shake your booty / times a-wasting / for the cutie

Hah! Not as good as your were, but I tried.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

ebonygirl
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Posts 2000
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20 posted 2012-05-17 01:18 PM

Hey, JP forgot to tell ya
LIKED, your poem.
Smiles,
Ms. E

serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

21 posted 2012-05-17 01:32 PM

I didn't forget. I've got something brewing.

(Thinking is the hardest part...)

Love that photo, btw.

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

22 posted 2012-05-17 02:12 PM

Haha I hoped you did, Ms. E.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

23 posted 2012-05-17 02:13 PM

Yeah, I love the photo too, Karen. I know you didn't forget. It'll come to you.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

Juju
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since 2003-12-29

Posts 3429
In your dreams

24 posted 2012-05-17 04:42 PM

I love poems that paint a portrait of some one. Makes me want to do one again.

-Juju

-"So you found a girl
Who thinks really deep thoughts
What's so amazing about really deep thoughts " Silent all these Years, Tori Amos

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

25 posted 2012-05-17 05:21 PM

Thanks, Juju, love that creativity you have in you.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

JerryPat2
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Posts 16975
South Louisiana

26 posted 2012-05-17 05:22 PM

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

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