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Best Grateful Dead Poems


The Duck That Lost His Quack
...The Duck That Lost His Quack


A Duck woke up late one day last week,
And all he could do was to squeak.
He looked everywhere and listened to different things, 
Even heard sounds all around, fr......

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Categories: grateful dead, animal, cheer up, imagination,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Jukebox
...
The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Bread
Billy Joel and The Grateful Dead

Suzi Quatro, Wham! Kate Bush
Elton John, Yes, Kiss and Rush

Aerosmith, The Brothers Four
Dolly Parton, Sandie Shaw
......

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Categories: grateful dead, appreciation, music,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Song of Three - Favorite
...I sing a song of three.
There’s Larry, Curly, Moe;
the Ego and the Id
and the Super Ego.

Three Kings of the Orient
are known as three wise men.
Showing up at Christmas too
in song are three ......

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Categories: grateful dead, fun,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Forever Awakening From Deep Sleep
...Unshakeable groggy state
plagues mein kampf
impossible mission to awaken
this comatose zombie
drugged horror - by potent

self manufactured narcotic -
oppressive tantalizing
nightmares indist......

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Categories: grateful dead, absence, bereavement, betrayal, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Unidentified Extraterrestrials Willingly Abducted Me
...Unidentified extraterrestrial(s) willingly abducted me

As a divergence 
from the apocalyptical, dialectical, 
geomorphological, judgmatical, 
metaphorical, philosophical...,
I share an out of ......

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Categories: grateful dead, absence, adventure, august, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Most Restful Sleep Since Being In Utero
...Most restful sleep since... being in utero

Courtesy restless leg syndrome
spouse called me expletive rat fink
ousted me out the bed with plink
as lovely bones almost got extinct,
whence consol......

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Categories: grateful dead, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



Wretched emasculated celibate anchorite
...Wretched emasculated celibate anchorite

(any relationship between the following poem and living persons -
namely the writer of these words ranks as purely coincidental and fictitious).

neverth......

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Categories: grateful dead, adventure, allegory, animal, atheist,
Form: Free verse
Some Pro's and Con's of Being Connected To Virtual Reality
...Some pro's and con's of being connected to virtual reality

Dune not be bashful, grumpy, leery
or any other contemporary dwarf man
regarding countless less well known dwarves
(that never got a c......

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Categories: grateful dead, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Abyss
...Hurled into the desert by a beatnik pilot and dropped off just above nirvana.  I find myself in a peculiar yet remarkable position.  I am now alone.  I look out above the high sierras and find a moon......

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Categories: grateful dead, freedom, drug,
Form: Narrative
Grateful Dead
...Into oblivion every soul drifts,
Unaware of the world beyond.
Friends and foes forgotten...
Wealth and poverty left behind.
All facades of real substance.   

   Living it all,some say
But onl......

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Categories: grateful dead, absence, adventure, body, death,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Asked and Answered - An Echo Poem
...HOW I WOULD DESCRIBE MYSELF

People often say to me 
“What can you tell me about yourself” 
guess it’s my duty to explain to them 
and so I look them in the face and reply 

My eyes are......

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Categories: grateful dead, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Who I Am
...I wish I could be clearer too
But when a mirror comes to view
I find reflections blur the tons
Of promises I've yet to keep.
The virtues to which I aspire
Just kindling in God's cleansing fire
......

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Categories: grateful dead, life,
Form: Rhyme
Some Pro's and Con's of Being Virtually Connected To Reality Poetic Verses
...Some Pro's and Con's of being Virtually Connected to Reality poetic verses

Dune not be bashful, grumpy, leery
or any other contemporary dwarf man
even countless less well known dwarves
(that ne......

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Categories: grateful dead, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
War Pipe Bong
...

It’s so serious,
it ain’t even funny
High times going on
in a White House underground bunker,
where Archie is glassblowing
American taxpayers’ money
He got heavy munchies
of Jughead......

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Categories: grateful dead, humor, political, truth, word
Form: Narrative
Ripple In the Wood Grain
...If my art did go, out into the sunlight
And my work, did show, with no use of light
Could you see my thoughts, within the wood grain
Would you hold it as dear, and want it for your own

Will you hand......

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Categories: grateful dead, song,
Form: Lyric

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry