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Best Starr Poems

Below are the all-time best Starr poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of starr poems written by PoetrySoup members


Sweet Baby Starr
Look at you sitting there

With your chubby hand


Holding my heart with your laugh


Knowing where I stand....


Sweet Baby Starr


I know where you are


Starring at you sleeping


Listening...

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Categories: starr, child,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Belle Starr - the Bandit Queen
Belle hung out and consorted with outlaws,
So folks shunned her and called her a scoff law;
But things aren't as they seem,
And though not squeaky clean,
'Twas...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: starr, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member From First Ball To World Cup
I remember the first time I saw a ball,

Those exquisite black and white pentagons ...
     The geometric excellence that intimated such...

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Categories: starr, childhood, football, soccer, sports,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - Beatle Mania -
My pulse is high and the heart beats double punch
               Paul...

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Categories: starr, memory, music,
Form: Light Verse
Coyote Full of Secrets Deep and Dark Pt2
Ten years past since Coyote deceased
The land became fruitful, with the help of a new priest
It was the time of the crescent moon
When the boys...

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Categories: starr, imagination, mysterynight, moon, night,
Form: Rhyme



With a Little Help From My Friends
“Billy Shears” was a pseudonym for Ringo.
He was the drummer for the Fab Four as you would know.
The Sergeant Pepper album for this group went...

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Categories: starr, friendship, on writing and
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Grit and Guts On the Gridiron - 1
Mud and leather
dirt and nerve
bloodied laughter
collision to serve,
distance, drive and demolition
battle axe ambition in the wild air
muscle and mind joined in steeled instinct, 
a stitched...

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Categories: starr, america, sports, war,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Fifties - Music
The Fifties...Music

The music of the fifties…well, what can I say…
was heaven here on earth compared with that today.
Romantic, lovely sentiments of heart and soul,
with poems...

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Categories: starr, music, nostalgia,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member - Pop Music Icon John Lennon -
GIVE ME SOME TRUTH
John, was born October 9, 1940, in Liverpool
He met Paul McCartney in 1957 
John and Paul formed a close working relationship ......

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Categories: starr, humor, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Death of Depression
"DEATH OF DEPRESSION"

Living each day all alone Even though I'm surrounded by millions of people, I still feel in isolation. 
I am surrounded by the...

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Categories: starr, anti bullying, change, dark,
Form: Personification
Premium Member A Walk To the Club
The lonely street stood still in the night,
Buildings grew tall all around with dim light.

Sound of my steps echoing in the alleys,
The air is moist...

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Categories: starr, culture, emotions, image, memory,
Form: Couplet
Entropy
A dignified statesman, 
A deified ‘Godman,’
A glorified star (of films or sports)
All tumble—
After a Starr report 
Or an HIV test 
Or a dope test.
Or maybe...

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© Ram R. V.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: starr, wisdom,
Form: Lyric
Twenty-Five Miles
Just like Edwin Starr, I have a long walk ahead of me.
A person needs strong and sturdy feet to walk twenty-five miles.
Walking will all be...

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Categories: starr, adventure, girlfriend-boyfriend, love,
Form: Sijo
No God West of Ft. Smith
There is no Sunday west of St. Louis
And no God that’s west of Ft. Smith—
So says the frontier adage that’s truest
And confirms the last Old...

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© Glen Enloe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: starr, angst, cowboy-western, history, nostalgia,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
War
Edwin Starr asked ya what is it good for 
Big share holder bonuses 
And a  politicians ego
Don't fall for jingoistic rhetoric 
Wear the white...

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Categories: starr, war,
Form: Grook

Book: Shattered Sighs