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Best Chapin Poems

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Harry Chapin - Story of a Life
I’m about to tell what’s an important story,
Of a singer who is sadly now long gone,
Whose story needs some increased recognition,
He could p’raps be described...

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Categories: chapin, poverty,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Heaven For Musicians
There has to be a heaven for musicians
A place for old singers to go
Their music still touches our lives
As they did years ago
Ray Charles transcended...

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Categories: chapin, music, nostalgia, old, music,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Colours In a Cloud Speak
"Colours in a Cloud Speak" 

The colours 
of a world 
speak 

no one 
has time 
to listen

The spectrums 
speak like
music, lucid

like clouds
that pulse ultraviolet
in front...

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Categories: chapin, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Rebel Poet
Authority figures, teachers and scholars
Tell me to think for myself;
Then grade my answers right and wrong
Based on an answer key kept on the shelf.

Write a...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chapin, on writing and wordscare,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bobby's Dad
My favorite song that I chose was "Cat's in the Cradle". 
By Harry Chapmin. I hope you enjoy my flight of imagination. 
See link to...

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Categories: chapin, beautiful, dad,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member My Psychedelic World
“Couple in the next room
Bound to win a prize
They’ve been going at it all night long”
While I’m sitting here alone
To no one’s surprise
That’s a common...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chapin, lifewords, me, women, me,
Form: Rhyme
Neglect Creates Holes-Glosa Verse
Glosa Verse -Cats and the cradle, song by Harry Chapin 

A child arrived just the other day, 
He came to the world in the usual...

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© Bob Shank  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chapin, death, life, sad, child,
Form: Verse
Life Is But a Song
a thunderous drum beat 
or a sweet soothing melody 
life flows up and down 
like the scales of harmony 

Imagine-John Lennon 

it's never been hard...

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© Bob Shank  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chapin, introspection, life, sad, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Call Your Dad
Young captain
It's been 72 days
Since you talked to your dad
I know there's a war 
I know my morning's your night
I know there's a girl
I know...

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Categories: chapin, father son,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs