Best Marlene Poems

Lili Marlene

In times of war, love can subdue cynical adversaries
(Men separated from their vocation, now filled with hatred)
And quell the beast inside their misdirected hearts,
And...

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Way, way back in 1974, 
When I was just a teen 
Three friends and I went to this place 
I'm sure you never seen
 
We...

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Your hair is like the 
finest silk, your clothes 
are made of linen, your 
eyes are gorgeous as 
the earth and you are 
my beginning,...

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The Letter

DEAR Marlene,

Sweet heart of the dead
Adored by generations not yet born
Marlene we love you.

Your beauty burned the wings of JFK
And brought big John to...

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My friends these are Perilous times. You can see it everywhere, feel it, and for many of us we are experiencing heartache through the loss...

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“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”



The Dilettante Diaries: Avian Notes on the Sensate Slip...

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   "Wedding of a Wench"


a joyous celebration promised arrived on lacy invitation
bring only your smile as a gift to offer congratulations
but my cousin,...

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for George
"You always said you had little invisible friends,"
He wrote in a Christmas card one year, and Yes,
funny he would remember that.  I called...

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Parting

Marlene is dying
right now as these words
tumble onto electronic paper
her body is fighting, fighting

I talk to her
“Its alright”, I say
“you know the way”
we have discussed...

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"A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a 
neatly made bed and an angry woman....

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To be sung to the tune of Lily Marlene, inspired by the lady herself and the film Personal Services - Cynthia played by Julie Walters.

Underneath...

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Two hearts beat, now beating faster; beating until they're one 
Two souls breathe, now breathing deeper; breathing until they're done 
Two lovers see forever, and...

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morning has broken      broken dreams in the cold light of day 

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POET'S NOTES
With her monoku, Marlene 'Mountain' Morelock Wills (1939–2018),...

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AT LAST, FOUND
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During times of ancient civilization, Khonshu was a god of Celestial Heliopolis, worshipped by Egyptians. He once posed as a human pharaoh then ascended into...

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