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Best Vaughan Poems

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Premium Member Stevie Ray Vaughan Inspiration
Stevie Ray's guitar spurred the 1980s blues boom.
He wasn't like any other guitarist.
Inspired by Buddy Guy, Albert King, and Albert Collins...
He linked blues and rock...

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Categories: vaughan, analogy, appreciation, beauty, history,
Form: Bio



Premium Member Vignette-Henry Vaughan
Ingenious,humerous and proud
Born to write words to be read aloud;
'I saw eternity the other night..
like a great ring of pure & endless light'
Line ever remembered...

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Categories: vaughan, on writing and words
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Vaughan Phrasis When the World Sleeps- Recited
WHEN THE WORLD SLEEPS 
This man Christ,very God and
very  man,this great design and ‘til 
the end of time,to make all sinners
‘mine’. To commemorate this
sacrifice...

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Categories: vaughan, christian, poetry, writing,
Form: Verse
I Should Just Keep On Dreaming
I should just keep on dreaming

I try to keep our routine,
serve your breakfast in bed
I come to pick up the dishes,
food's untouched and cold instead

(refrain)
Oh...

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Categories: vaughan, death, father daughter, grief,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Price of Pearls
"The Price of Pearls"



a strange time
just as a dream
to a place of strangeness

strangers 
walking contretemps' fine lines 
composing invisible footprints

away from life 
into the loud...

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Categories: vaughan, magic, poetess, romance,
Form: Romanticism



Premium Member Bright Flames of Jazz
Lady Ella, Queen of Jazz:
      you brought so many songs to life.
   Forget the words? Just make up...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vaughan, music, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 20
It was a bitter morning, the ground hotter upon my flesh
I kneeled at the center of the pit on the twentieth day,
Remembering a tune sung...

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Categories: vaughan, growth, heart, life, loss,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Sky Is Crying
12.40am, August 27th 1990
A sadness for many
And the music community

Stevie Ray Vaughan
Chicago bound
Helicopter Bell 260B
Hillside it found

It crashed in the fog
Denying my ears
To hear SRV
For...

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Categories: vaughan, loss, music,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In the Mood For Rock:
It's just so good the sound of Rock 'n' Roll,
Add in rhythm and blues it's hard to choose,
The way it moves you touches your soul,
It's...

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© White Wolf  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vaughan, music,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Night With Joe Bonamassa
Billboard named him the year finest blues musician. 
Joe Bonamassa is a blues-rock musician,
He was designed to be a famous musician.
His family owns a guitar...

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Categories: vaughan, analogy, appreciation, celebrity, history,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Lark Ascending
“Lark Ascending"



We sleep 
through 

the worst of it all, 
snake bit

prospects thin 
sometimes we give 

sometimes we give in
our losses add credits to the win

we...

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Categories: vaughan, faith, hope, i am,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Captivated By the Music
I loved my job as a librarian, and today I was walking to work,
In the warmth of a summer morning, when golden butterflies lurk.

I had...

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Categories: vaughan, beauty, fantasy, imagery, music,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Sky Is Crying
The sky is crying…
Like a gentle southern rain,
Falling, pouring, pounding out a beat
In rhythm with the memories,
The tunes of forever that we played,
History’s not winning,...

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Categories: vaughan, appreciation, conflict, missing you,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rip- Robert Micheal Best
Robert's cause of death will probably be:
Corona Virus, at age 20
~ Character Cause of Death Profile ~

Death
Probable age of death
20
Probably cause of death
COVID 19 
Other...

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Categories: vaughan, analogy, bereavement, celebration, eulogy,
Form: Elegy
Selective Blindness

Blinded to all of the desirable flaws
within pillow reach
Shallow beauty of uneven temperament
rises and falls
with the tide of X-ray attraction

Ultraviolet thoughts in visible range,
scan the...

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Categories: vaughan, allusion, desire, longing, sensual,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things