Best Midler Poems
Pleasantly Weird
...Pleasantly
Bull headed, bird brained, chicken and foxy
From a bramble of a family tree
A lover of Cohen, Midler and Dennis Lee
Who regularly feels awe, paralyzing angst, and humility
Fearing the......
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Categories:
midler, bird, me,
Form:
Bio
You Bette ! ..
...So , was it real cold there , in my shadow .
When M/S Midler sang , with you in mind .
When all we shared
Was the time ,we spared
And lost dreams , I still had to find .
That fickle friend named......
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Categories:
midler, friendship
Form:
Rhyme
From the Eyes of Someone Born In 1952
...Through the eyes of one born in 1952:
1950’s TV craze
Muscle cars, blue jeans
Poodle skirts, class ring exchanges
Simple time, grandparents involved.
Girls want to be pretty, men call women gi......
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Categories:
midler, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Wind Beneath My Wings
...Watched Bette Midler singing “Wind Beneath My Wings”
Brought a tear to my eye, such an emotional tugging on my heartstrings
Like only Bette can do
A love song so touching, so true
Her smi......
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Categories:
midler, celebrity,
Form:
Limerick
Stuck In An Elevator
...I am stuck in an elevator with Cher, Tina Turner, Bette Midler,
Pink, Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga when
Liza Minnelli drops in from a tiny opening in the roof.
We all scream “LIZA!” and......
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Categories:
midler, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Rose
...Lyrics for The Rose By Bette Midler
"Some say love, it is a river, that drowns the tender reed
Some say love, it is a razor, that leaves your soul to bleed
Some say love, it is a hunger, an e......
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Categories:
midler,
Form:
Lyric
Picture This
...Picture this.
Exploding pipe bombs.
Land fields that can take your arms off.
Driving off road, and frenzied, with excitement
Adrenaline RAGING.
Oh, yes, Syrian Teenagers,
It is “Let’s See If W......
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Categories:
midler, malayalam, moving on, patriotic,
Form:
Free verse
The Music In Me
...I have a peaceful easy feeling
As I sit and write this poem
Comprising 5 old songs
Which remind me of my home
They show me the importance
They teach me with such grace
To get up every morning......
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Categories:
midler, inspirational, music, song-me, light,
Form:
Limerick
M the Divine Miss-Ifl
...At eight
I latched on like a babe
in need of nourishment
a positive role model
when my role
was never model
her message sent
I need not be gorgeous
to be fabulous
and found my beauty in t......
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Categories:
midler, beauty, celebrity, childhood, mother
Form:
Free verse
Unturnable Pages
...Brittle pages, ideas tossed along the wayside.
Bay side bossoms, Beaches and Bette Midlers
F-rated winds. Ripped magazine articles littered through abandoned streets. Young minded men sneaking peak......
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Categories:
midler, africa, black african american,
Form:
Prose
Prom of 1970
...We all had homemade dresses for prom; well, nearly all of us.
This was back in 1970 while black and white Viet Nam War photos were on TV
Every night, we saw such sadness.
Prom was a reminder of ch......
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Categories:
midler, 12th grade, memory, nostalgia,
Form:
Lyric
Weeki Wacky
...Going on vacation
down to Spring Hill, Florida,
decided to take in some attractions,
and with Weeki "Wacky" practically
right up the road,
drove there to do some investigating,
hearing that th......
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Categories:
midler, humor, vacation,
Form:
Light Verse
My 1970's Acrostic
...T The wide belts, hip-huggers, bell bottom pants
H Hip people dress like Sonny and Cher
E Everyone loves Carol Burnet, Harvey Korman, and Bonanza
S Singers cannot compete with Barbara Striesand......
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Categories:
midler, nostalgia,
Form:
Acrostic
The Fiddler and the Frog
...There once was a fiddler from Fartsie Oh Midler
who played in the park with a naturous tether
a one legged man
by a river of tan
with one gimpy leg that sat still as a peg, oh what a sin......
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Categories:
midler, appreciation, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Music Is In My Soul Thanks To Daddy
...I love classical music, for it reminds me of
Walt Disney's musical full-length featured comics.
Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty,
And when I was older, Fantasia, my favorite.
I love Will......
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Categories:
midler, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Blank verse