Best Roberta Poems

Translation of Roberta Flack's Killing Me Softly with his Song by T Wignesan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgl-VRdXr7I


Refrain :

Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me...

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“In this life there’s been heartache and pain”
How could I begin to find love again
Desperado walking a tightrope
I looked down and Daniel gave me hope
...

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The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Bread
Billy Joel and The Grateful Dead

Suzie Quatro, Wham! Kate Bush
Elton John, Yes, Kiss and Rush

Aerosmith, The Eagles, War
Dolly Parton, Sandie...

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Roberta lived on this earth for so many years!
Was a great mother, wife, and grandmother, too.
A long and fulfilling life with joy, completion and no...

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My mind travels as rain  slowly falls.

It washes memories of you to where they wait.

Presents gather wishing them well with hope and joy.

But peace...

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As I sit here and wonder what went wrong,
I realized, nothing went wrong.
People say it was your time to leave this world,
to go and see...

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I hear the lovely dirge called Autumn Leaves.
It echoes back and forth in my obfuscated mind,
Part full of grief, part an ineffectual endeavour
To understand why,...

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What the Butler Heard
Extract from a memoir

Lord Illustrious Penge of Lampwicker Hall,
Welcomed local Toffs, to his Name-Dropper ball.
Noses upturned with a touch of conceit,
Hob-Knobbing with...

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The first time ever I saw your face,
a world observed and unobserved
inside my dreams unfurled…
there were so many lakes surrounding
a rare July mist in your...

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There is a stolen railroad car named "Schmow".
The big question of the day is: "Where did it go?"
The Penciltucky Railroad would really like to know,
so...

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We kiss, but it’s only in my dreams
and when we meet – deep is the night!
Then I’m in your embrace, and I’m more awake
than I...

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heard the sound!!! She is Gone!!! Gone 
Forever!!! 
2001...who would have thought that...that 
would be the last time i would ever see 
you!!! 
History Repeating...

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Translation of YESTERDAY WHEN I WAS YOUNG
By T. Wignesan
(Written by : Herbert Kretzmer)

(Variously sung in a host of styles, moods and orchestration by
exquisite soul-movers like...

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Ford's Theater, April 15th, 1865...
Petersen House, Washington, D.C.

I admit to own a passion
for the Civil War in general,
and the life and death of
the sixteenth president...

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Loved you the first time

Loved you the first time our eyes had met
I felt a tremor in my heart
And I heard the strong sound of...

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