Inspirations
...There are so many things
from which my inspiration springs.
Heroes rare, who do what's right,
powered by goodness, not by fright
(MLK and Joan Baez) -
what they do, not just what they sez.
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Categories:
baez, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Newport 1965
...Newport 1965
(Or Dylan Goes Electric)
This was the dream concert
folk was at its peak
Pete Seeger, Joan Baez,
Odetta, Peter, Paul and Mary
Bill Monroe, Johnny Cash,
Gordon Lightfoot, Ian and...
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Categories:
baez, music,
Form: Free verse
The Highway
...The Highway
Bob Dylan, B. Marquardt-Alexander, Joan Baez
The Highway
The highway's a river, I'm a leaf adrift,
Tumbling, tumbling, no solid shift.
The canyon's son, a blessing I crave,
B...
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Categories:
baez, absence, allusion, anger,
Form: Blank verse
Retired VIP Guest Hospitality Specialist: Land Trustee-PS
...A pure Hawaiian of rare birth,
living a life somewhat carefree,
fed farm animals by this squirt,
sticks and stones were real toys indeed,
set trash ablaze, be on alert,
a barefoot countr...
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Categories:
baez, addiction, appreciation, blessing, dad,
Form: Free verse
With God on Their Side
...when two teams collide
Huskies will win with great pride
with God on their side
Joan Baez sang this great song.
Will never forget it
On YouTube under Joan Baez.
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Categories:
baez, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Jukebox
...Just pop a dime in the
jukebox; select a song
judge it well to impress;
Jerry Lee, Jimmy H,
Joan Jet, Jungkook!? Jay-Z,
J. Cole? No, none of these.
Joan Baez - Hope I guessed right....
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Categories:
baez, cute love,
Form: Pleiades
Ode To a Female Folk Icon
...Joan Chandos Baez is an American singer
Eighteen years old, first of the later date
protest folk singers
Famous before Bob Dylan!
Songwriter, musician, and activist.
Folk music of protest an...
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Categories:
baez, appreciation, celebrity,
Form: Ode
I Saw the Psychedelic Lights
...I Saw The Psychedelic Lights ??
It came through in music
As well as in song
C’mon People Now
Let’s all get along
Love, Peace and Happiness
Was what we did preach
It was our Trinity ??
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Categories:
baez, inspiration,
Form: Prose
Ukrainian Prayer
...If my tears were a river
Would they flow to the sun?
Would they laugh, would they chatter
And before its course run,
Would they open to an ocean
Holding childhood dreams?
And in the tides of ...
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Categories:
baez, conflict, hope, hurt, joy,
Form: Lyric
In Collaboration With the Stars At the Claremont Resort, Health Spa, and Tennis Club
...Bay area's crown jewel, The Claremont,
Where age 24 Steve Jobs and I talked,
Well, him--as to the future--I was shocked,
The guy aimed high, humble, who want for naught.
An unschedul...
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Categories:
baez, allegory, character, destiny, inspiration,
Form: Sonnet
What It Means To Be Ramos
...I am Aztec
I am tree person
Taking refuge under these leaves
Hide me without erasing me
Until being Mexican is easy
cuando sea libre
Not a Baez
Not a Kahlo
America, accept me for me
I...
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Categories:
baez, america, anger, endurance, prison,
Form: Free verse
Joan Baez Rising Star With a Guitar
...Joan Baez Rising Star With A Guitar
Joan Baez was great true rising star,
As she sang and played on her guitar;
My heart touch,
So very much;
In majestic music world went very far.
https:/...
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Categories:
baez, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
People of the 60s
...Unconventional, they mocked the establishment
Clad in paisley tops and bell-bottom denim,
With a symbol hanging on necks wrists or belts -
An emblem of inverted V , the birth of prote...
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Categories:
baez, history, identity, people,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Entertained While It Rained
...Entertained While It Rained
Thought of writing poems have entertained;
What I did end up with and still remained
Total nonsense;
Did seem dense;
The presence of my poems others pained.
Jim ...
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Categories:
baez, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Senth and Wenth
...Senth and Wenth
Where have flowers gone will wonder wenth,
And where and when and also maybe sinth;
Going through fields
Which flowers yields
Where I enjoyed picking my tenth hyacinth.
(For d...
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Categories:
baez, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
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