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Best Layla Poems

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To My "layla"
Where is that woman
I so loved so long ago?
And for reasons unfathomed
I love as much still

Beauty beyond compare
to me
Simple in thought
But complex in love

Years of...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: layla, life, lost love, sad,
Form: Ballad



Listening To Layla
Seven decades old today
And years away from Cream,
Eric Clapton, on guitar,
Will always reign supreme.

Listening to “Layla,”
I’m amazed it sounds so fresh,
Like the man himself were...

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Categories: layla, birthday, music,
Form: Rhyme
Sundays With Layla.
Sunday is your day when we are encoiled,
through sisterhood and nappies soiled.
Starts with an awakening thats just not right,
ends with a goodnight kiss and you...

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Categories: layla, sisterage, age,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Favorite Word
My favorite word. . . now what could that be?
To choose it, I have to think so carefully.
If I choose by its meaning, I simply...

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Categories: layla, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Beatle Mania
Beatlemania (The Fab Four As Lovers)

Once a choir boy, John turned to romance,
Fell for Yoko almost at first glance.
In full public view 
In bed with...

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Categories: layla, celebrity, funny,
Form: Limerick



Hello
Hello to you my old friend
forgive me for I haven't visited
I was busy with life,
and the bills kept coming.
Time flew by... I just don't know

All...

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Categories: layla, absence, deep, for him,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pando Waits
in Pando's shadow a young maiden sings
wander'd to and fro peat bog feet sloshing
auburn locks adorned in daisy crowned rings
quite unaware that something was watching...

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Categories: layla, friendship, heart, life, memory,
Form: Rhyme
You'Ve Got Me On My Knees
The day I brought you home
I knocked on the door
I waited outside
In hopes he would adore

Who was I kidding
You were the cutest of all
It was...

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Categories: layla, animal, body, death, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Classic Vinyl Love Poem
The radio plays their song
And two hearts beat as one
To the rhythm of a tune they call their own.
The gold and platinum vinyl spins
Creating the...

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Categories: layla, hope, love, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton Tribute
Layla, you look so wonderful tonight.
Beautiful eyes like diamonds made from rain.
After midnight lets dance in the moonlight.
I'm your forever man, king of the swain.

Beautiful...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: layla, love, romance, romantic,
Form: Pantoum
Do You Hear Your Voice
I've spoken with the rain, it explained it to you
It got upset with my sadness and made me cry
I've covered me with sadness, wailing /...

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© Can Yucel  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: layla, love, , romantic love,
Form: ABC
What Goes Up, Must Come Down Contest
What Goes Up, Must Come Down
Sponsor: Catie Lindsey

~Different beliefs can be a blessing~

He was born on a chilly Saturday afternoon, sweet boy with lots of...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: layla, angel, birth, cancer, grandchild,
Form: Couplet
Mr Lonely
What will you do all by yourself?
No one's left to call your name.
You've hidden your soul up on a shelf.
Your foolish pride is what's to...

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© Deb Wilson  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: layla, break up, moving on,
Form: Lyric
I Have To Get Myself Free
As the Miami Beach sun was hot, 
you said that I was lying in your spot.
You got my attention from that very first look.
Just one...

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Categories: layla, heartbroken, love, marriage,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Eric Clapton Inspiration
Eric Clapton (born March 30, 1945, in Ripley, Surrey, England)
British guitarist who influenced rock.
Later became a famous singer-songwriter.
Clapton was born to a teen mom and...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: layla, analogy, appreciation, celebrity, history,
Form: Bio

Book: Reflection on the Important Things