Best Nashville Poems

Downtown Nashville is a place I’d love to call my home,
With fine country singers dancing on the Grand Ole Opry-
With Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers...

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I left my hometown and didn't much look back,
headed southward bound in my Cowboy Cadillac,
arrived at this store to grab me some snacks,
Yea, they're right...

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Remembering the days of yesteryear
when family ties were held most dear,
gas lamps flickered in the back street
while most of us danced a different beat.
Tragic alleyways...

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You won't see this true story in the Main Media. Not long ago an incident took place in Nashville Tennessee. There was a school shooting...

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We think them plentiful, like jumping shrimp and tiny crabs:
These mak hung, these chilies, the base for padaek.
The mouth waters with even a mention.

Every heart...

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It use to be we treasured,
The little things that we'd do,
It use to be a pleasure,
Sharing words like "I love you."

We use to share our...

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Limericks VII - Naughty, Bawdy, Risque, Absurd

There continue to be modern sequels of the famous "Nantucket" limericks, including this bawdy one of mine:

There was a...

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She wanted a great big brand new house, among brand new other things,
and just to marry and be my spouse, she wanted great big diamond...

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Is he here?
Can it be?
Straight from Nashville, Tennessee
Luke the Drifter 
or a mortal shape shifter.
Hank come here
is it really you?
your tearful words helped me through.
Did...

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Semi-sleepwalking
Ev'ry day is déjà vu
When my love's adrift

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Nashville to Kentucky
The state line divides my heart
So where lies my home?

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The journey stretches
I'm like Kerouac, on the...

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This Ain't a Goddamn Country Song

You know I love my Rock and Roll

I wouldn't write a Country Song

'Cause that's not how I roll

This song it...

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The first thing I remember hearing 
Was a car radio with a country song playing
A man singing while my mom was steering 
A song about...

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I know I've been to Chicago,
     But I only remember the snow.
I know that I've been to Albuquerque,
   ...

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I worked real hard to get to the top...
moved to Nashville though I was broke.
I use to play at local coffee shops...
hoping I would finally...

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Years ago, this saloon was too boring
and all you saw was cowboys drinking;
no music to take away their blues,
no wonder they all seemed to lose!


I...

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