Best Bena Poems

Way down in Itta Bena
Down the Mississippi way
B. B. King was born
         And boy could this guy play         


This Beale Street blues boy
Watched T-Bone Walker strum
He said to himself...

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Nature but rough
Heat is less
Nature still tough
Rain pours and pours 
Filling roads to ponds
Felling trees, killing lives
Gutters filled,shutters open
Nature showing faces
Hatred,anger,fury
Blessing those who cares
Cursing those who hates
She loves those who is fair
She loves those who share
And she blames the vice
And slains the bad
So care Nature
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He was born on a cotton plantation in Itta Bena, Mississippi.
Among rhythm and blues guitarists, he was the best there could be.
Riley B. King came into the world in 1925.
Entertaining as an R & B guitarist, his career would thrive.
While working at a radio station...

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