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Banjoes Poems - Poems about Banjoes


Ten Years, Somewhere In Their Lost Neighbourhood

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“Ten Years, Somewhere in their Lost Neighbourhood”

Of course,
he said, like a god,
there is no course,
one must simply go with the flow
the penumbra stands waivering its ...
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Categories: banjoes, muse,
Form: Narrative

The Crow Bar

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"The Crow Bar"

she said,
here I bury my dead,
you can hear them sleeping
somnulent forget-me-nots,
snoring blithely unaware,
in neat rows between 
the thick,
ink injec...
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Categories: banjoes, love, muse, satire,
Form: Narrative



Heavenly Music

...Heavenly Music

Instead of all of them still yelling EUREKA
What they ended up with was TOPEKA
Kansas where banjoes they will strum
And State Capital will never become.

Would it to many make ...
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Categories: banjoes, allegory, analogy, humorous,
Form: Couplet

October Georgia

...October Georgia faintly whispers...

Whistling gaps between the autumn days
She plucks the blues in windy back wood fiddles
Hums hymns of Evergreens across the open space
And around the r...
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Categories: banjoes, music, nature, places, autumn,
Form: Free verse

Cursing Stone

...Banjoes picked through Kentucky blue 
grass twenty-two inches long 
awaiting a gurgle of life
blood, and you appeared at sunset.

Eighty-two years from a body
lasting is my love for you every
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Categories: banjoes, death, family, loss, me,
Form: I do not know?




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