1971 Poems - Poems about 1971

algorithm... nineteen seventy-one bolt, back god, quivers perforation – split by the winter rain in darkness comes madness from nothing comes pain algorithm... heartbeat – one two one spin, fast oceans, shiver consciousness – pull through the bloodless eye blackness entwines the tassels of sky algorithm... pulse – forty and two time, slow echoes, thicken speech slur – bend in the shifting brine the planets on fire unconscious align algorithm... one...

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Memory Poem In Apartment A - 1971 a brace of wine glasses standing tall on a kitchen table greasy frying pan luxuriating immodestly in the kitchen sink two forks and two knives bathing naked in the steamy water vinyl black record spinning clockwise under a cool ceiling fan music by beethoven caressing the hour with perfume sounds clock on the television...

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Journey Journal Page OLDE SJI BRAS BASAH ROAD, 1971 By Leon Enriquez Morning Glory Florals on a fence Violet blooms beauty Plain in sparkling sense Olde school field By Bras Basah Road Boys and football yield To dawn’s purple load ~~~~~~~~~ Dawn now brings Such sparkling creepers Olde tints of fond flings Such transient flowers We recall Days of yesterday Sounds of lost footfalls Echoes of school days ~~~~~~~~~ For a while Till that harsh sun burns Faded...

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California Dreamin… Momma Told Me Not To Come By The Time I Get To Phoenix Will Anybody Really Know What Time Has Spun Hotel California… Its Chain Gang wearing thin Searching for an American Woman Blowin In The Wind Bill Bojangles Robinson… preaching Fire And Rain New York’s A Lonely Lonely Town dragging Ball And Chain Summertime Blues and Porgy’s drowning… Riders On The Storm Layla kisses Judy Blue...

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Ending in a flouncy ruffle, I married in a brown crushed velvet dress This was 1971. Only six people were there, maybe one less. My groom was nervous, I had sweet talked him into eloping with me. I was confident this was the way God meant our wedding to be. This was our second try at finding a justice...

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We got married on October tenth of nineteen seventy-one. We had a great honeymoon, lots of giggling, and a lot of fun. We actually eloped, and were married by a really nice judge. I wore a brown velvet dress, the color of caramel fudge. I thought that life could never ever be better than this. No one got upset...

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I see the foot petal shaped like a bare foot and I remember. Summer of 1971, white jeans, pink shirt, driving to beaches. I smell the fish in the water, memories flood back instantly. Your hazel eyes, and the way you look at me as if I am candy. Memories upon memories happen; they chase each other. The lavender blanket,...

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1971 (Hey Dude) Hey dude, come in, come in. Been a long time since we last smoked the peace pipe together. Hey! I think it was during Hendrix’s set in Bethel, dude! Here, let me move these Rolling Stones out of the way. and the Taco Bell wrappers… There. Dude, let’s sit. First, I need to change the...

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We sat there just groovin', our senses so keen Trippin' and giggling, taking in nature’s scene We smirked as visitors drove up in blind haste "Take a picture! Let's go! No time left to waste!" We were smug, silly hippies, naive to the core So certain we had found the key to that door Those tourists were clueless, yet then so...

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I awoke early that morning as Venus is fading from dawn's sky. Watching sun rays skate upon the mirror of ripples,gently flowing by. On the deck of a Princess ship, suspended between the Heaven and the sea. The mirage of a double Sunrise,as the sun shone upon itself and me. Today is the day I say "I DO", take...

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1971 to 2011 Then, If only, we could understand We could have walked hand in hand. If only, plots could be reversed Echoes could have been hushed. If only, coups could be avoided Laws could have been abided. If only, lust could be elapsed Our land could have been wrapped. If only, ego could be aside ‘Sorry’ could have been pride. If only, “The Book” could be...

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The ripples at the stern of the ship, Air bubbles rise no more In the depths of the Caribbean Sea, I Lost My Love : LENORE My Heart and Mind in Unison, decided they could be : The One’s that Swim from Shore to Shore, and bring Lenore back to Me The Captain hands me a Transparent White Veil...

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LOVE stands still , the Sun does not set in SORROW The deep Caribbean Sea took LENORE from Me In a Rainbow, Her Soul lies hidden in Kaleidoscope, Coral ALWAYS and FOREVER YOUR Liege, with LOVE…HG ...

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Can You Remember; the day YOUR Voice, Died; to my Ears To Lose my Wife Lenore : on Our Wedding Day all Those Years Reminisce : in the History of Forever : “ The Day; the Dead, Survive “ How much more I want to “ LOVE YOU “ for that’s what Keeps me...

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A Tear scars my cheek, With no Time to Think I watched My MOST BELOVED LENORE -- “ DIE “ Thrown Overboard, by a Boom not tied The Tears I Cried ...

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