I just got back from a trip to Texas (visiting prisons), and as usual it left an impression. Everyone has a thought about that state, so let's blog about that this week! Here, I will go first:
Baylor, like Texas
Its tragedies are epic
Water/Fire/Power.
Now it is your turn! Just use the 5/7/5 syllable recipe, and have some fun!
Barbecue and beer
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Under the lone star.
Love-hate Texas, my
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in the Lone Star State.
Wide open spaces
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Not found in Dallas.
Two years in Texas
ReplyDeletemake me love it and hate it.
So much to love, though.
Texas: Blue cities
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A state in conflict.
Is Texas South? West?
Progressive? Or regressive?
Is it Brown? White? Black?
Is bigger better?
Is celebrating your past
Really just racism?
A state of contrast
It doesn't know what it is
And that's dangerous
The Lone Star State needs
Less pride and more compassion
Less brag, more caring
And it starts with me.
This Texan bleeds for his state
What it still can be
-- Bob
"Can't live in Texas
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soul." God bless Texas.
Mamie's legacy
ReplyDeleteBluebonnets line the highway
T.E.X.A.S.
At John Armstrong School
ReplyDeleteHighland Park, Texas, I learned
State flower, song, bird
In third and fourth grade.
The Battles of Alamo
and San Jacinto
Texas history,
not United States or World.
Fire to my small heart
Not the Mockingbird
Or the Bluebonnets or song
But this one teacher
Who saw in us each
Gifts we could not see ourselves
Who we longed to be.
Uncle 'Vester came
ReplyDeleteFrom Arvin and made "Come back
Dip" from Mayo,ketchup
And Tabasco and
Served it with saltines.Everything
In Texas he said was
The biggest in the world,
Which apparently didn't
Apply to him.His
Daughter rode the flat-
Bed truck like a surfboard."Looka
Here,Daddy," she said,
"Ah'm surfin' " We hoped
For treacherous curves...and she
Had 'em. It proved to
Be a weird summer.
Trying to explain farming
To city slickers.
I've held a grudge since
ReplyDeleteSixty-three...she in her pill-
Hat and blood-stained suit
Never tried too hard
To removed stereotypical spectacles
Air conditioners
Running overtime
Cheerleaders and bullets from
Watchtowers.Oil rigs.
Even God plays football.
Still there was that time in Austin
Air soft as butter. Steel
Guitars stimulated
A rockin backbone. Ambrosial
Beer like a glacier.
I have many friends.
ReplyDeleteBut I've only known one since
eighth grade, Dave Baxley.
David made his home
state fun. Vacation on lake
in the heart of Texas.