Best Jukebox Poems

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

The Jackson Five and Bruce Springsteen
Elvis Presley, Slade and Queen

David Bowie, The Beach Boys, Sweet
Rose Royce, Madness and The Beat

Dusty...

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Old Zack Adams sits a slouch’n so sloppy drunk on a bar-room stool,
Wear’n his cheap-threaded cowboy suit and a stained satin shirt.
All the while a peek’n and a leer’n at women like an old poor fool,
But think’n man tonight—Oh Boy, I’m really gonna hit the...

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                              Jukebox plays your hit song
          ...

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jukebox plays oldies
grinding melodies of youth
memories unleashed



posted on October 23, 2020...

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I met ANGIE in a bar where grief drank quiet,
where HONKY TONK WOMEN spilled perfume and regret.
She moved like WILD HORSES with nowhere left to run—
said, “I’m safer UNDER MY THUMB than out in the open.”

She kissed like a dare and left like smoke.
On RUBY...

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Jovial playing box
Jam-packed with jazz albums
Jump  in your flats and dance 
Just  let the music play
Join in the bebop or
Jazz without a partner
Jitterbug with a friend 



3/5/2017

to late for contest...

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bump click bump bump click
bump click bump bump click

then she looked at me and smiled

"The first time I saw you,
oh you looked so fine.
And i had a feeling, 
one day you'd be mine.
Honey you came along,
and captured my heart."

and these were the words 
i wanted...

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I speak words, rawly, but 
productively, Poetry Is the 
Passion, I compose, with A 
gleaming heart, that spins the 
souls of others, vibrantly 
shinning, among the rainbows,
Colorfully booming, Tenderly In 
A jukebox, as my ego, grows 
up the beanstalk, like sun-use, 
Wisely owl, among expression...

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If I were a jukebox, long-forgotten,
Languishing amidst some rusting antiques 
In a cold, cramped barn mostly filled with junk 
I would summon all the strength I could muster, 
Light up those bubbly circuits around my face 
Throw on a few 45-rpms from the fifties, 
And...

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time machine jukebox
resurrecting black and white
just for the music...

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I got off the last crazy train five minutes ago.
now I'm walking up this stairway to heaven with the sweet chil o' mine
that sings a bohemian rhapsody while I'm knocking on heavens door.
Now its late, and hotel california its 35 miles away.
I saw a sing...

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Song from the Jukebox

		A cautious experiment of the mind,
		it flows over couples as they dance
		and lends credence to their stance
		as cathartic words unwind.
	
		Strongly felt are the thoughts projected;
		as they gently intrude upon each heart,
		mending what might have fallen apart;
		each life has been affected....

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colorful jukebox 
played short vein romantic songs
bohemian den













4-22-2016...

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in the dim and dismal barrooms
of my dark and distant past i sat
drinking cheap misery as i listened
to songs of lying lovers,? ?cheaters,
broken hearts and pedestrian pain
all those songs,? ?i named them
and i claimed them as my own
converted the words to portraits
in my mind;? ?each...

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I've got a tiger by the tail
Its plain to see came a Buck Owens wail
From the jukebox hidden near the bar
In a West Texas dance hall far
Away on a farm-to-market road
Near a cotton bale load

Hammer man tuned the piano, sunlight gave way to moon
Barmaid dried...

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