Best Acker Poems

ARIA- BY ACKER BILK

Rushing home after doing a week's hard graft
The lads running ahead, as the lasses laughed

Washed and scrubbed best party frocks & suits...

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Sipping cherry limeade, driving in the car parade, 
we're cruising in the Lone Star state.
Didn't want a bucket seat; the thing it couldn't beat, 
was...

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“Possessed”



The scarlet of her heart opens
where she blooms deepest
from the cuts 
of Past’s insanity
her windows 
full green undressed
him, in his mind;
he confessed,
in quiet reflection, 
he...

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I knew it was coming up to Christmas when Mom started to stress
About the lack of money and if she could get us all a...

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Jazz clarinatist Acker Bilk
vibrato-rich soft as silk
Famed for 'Stranger on the Shore'
now in musical folk lore...

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wait
     awhile,
rest
     remain
dream...
stay
    in the
moment,
      drift
   ...

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