Best Waller Poems
A Poem For Sam Cooke...December 14, 1965
"Mr. Samuel Cooke. Sam Cooke??
You been in that casket for three days..
You a long way from Chicago, son?"
And Sam said, "What happened
Where am I?"
"This is ......
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Categories:
waller, america, celebrity, devotion, music,
Form:
Rhyme
Early Morning Harmony...Danced with
Conceived and born
Sung to and nursed
On a downy soft quilt
Transfused with
Vibrations of Ellington
Basie, Crosby, Waller
Goodman and Armstrong
Skyrocketed spiritually
By Ke......
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Categories:
waller, childhood,
Form:
Free verse
Just Mad...JUST MAD!
I AWOKE THIS MORNING, JUST MAD!
WENT TO MY APPOINTMENT, JUST MAD!
I HAD TO GET UP AT 6:30 AM TO CATCH THE BUS AT 7:30 AM TO GET 4 MILES AWAY BY 9:00 AM, JUST MAD!
SAT THERE FOR 2 HOUR......
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Categories:
waller, black african american, funny
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Love Life of a Poet...Man and poet? Bet you know it
Tender verse can get you girls
Plain or – whoopee! – eager groupie
Matching your poetic pearls
Just how much you get to touch, you
Can ascertain easily
You’re a freshma......
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Categories:
waller, funny, love, words, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Chocolate Sun...CHOCOLATE SUN!
It always starts with a question,
would I be out of line if I told you that I thought about you all night long,
last night, the night before and probably tonight
and a few after ......
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Categories:
waller, deep, longing, love,
Form:
Romanticism
Capn Waller An Perth... Captain Waller & Perth
The Japanese navy they came south,
Invaded Indonesia, in 1942
Cruiser Perth of 6 inch guns,
Captain Hector Waller was to choose her,
De Ruyter, Java , Perth and ......
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Categories:
waller, adventure, anniversary, lost, anniversary,
Form:
Ballad
Looking For Gold In the Sandbox...3-18-2012 Looking for Gold in the Sandbox
There may have been a rumor or two about someone finding gold in the sandbox,
So we dig,some of us give in to this Riff-Raff right away,and look for better c......
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Categories:
waller, art,
Form:
Hmmmm...HMMMM!
I WOULD LIKE TO BITE YOUR NECK,
NOT HARD SO IT WILL HURT,
BUT GENTLE AND FIRM SO YOU REALLY FEEL THE PRESSURE,
BOTH SIDES AND THEN THE MIDDLE,
I WOULD LIKE MY TONGUE TO FEEL YOUR THROAT......
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Categories:
waller, beautiful, fire, sensual, sexy,
Form:
Romanticism
Hitch Hikers On Me...Now let me see
My Mom told me not to ride that boar hog
But as you will see my brothers and me
Didn't listen to Mommy
We got on this big old hog and rode him when he got tired he would run
for ......
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Categories:
waller, adventure, animal, childhood, insect,
Form:
Prose
Know...KNOW
Denial is a blindfold, it helps you cope
with the truth,
if only I could get over this wall,
I could see it, the bright shiny penny on heads
pick it up it's good luck,
what's one penny......
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Categories:
waller, art,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Were U the One...Were U the One!
Were U the one in my second grade class?
Were U the one, prettiest little girl on the church ground?
Were U the one that I worked alongside?
Were U the one behind me in the chec......
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Categories:
waller, care, love, truth,
Form:
Romanticism
Captain Waller...Captain Waller
Good Aussie, Captain Waller,
from his deck chair he would holler, (on the bridge)
As the Stuka dive bomber, (German ju87)
dropped a bomb away,
Harrrrd a port or or harrrd a starb......
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Categories:
waller, adventure,
Form:
Ballad
Hint...Hint!
I HEARD A CHILD GIVE HIS MOTHER AN ORDER TO DO SOMETHING, HIS MOMMA SNAPPED BACK AND SAID YOU DON’T GIVE THE ORDERS AND HE REPLIED “I WAS NOT TELLING YOU WHAT TO DO! I WAS JUST GIVING YOU A......
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Categories:
waller, character, childhood,
Form:
Verse
Hardover Hec...Hector Waller
“Hardover Hec” yes they called him,
Yes hard a port, that’s it, right,
If bombs or torpedoes were a falling, crawling,
He’dodge em, with sweetest delight,
The Germans said the......
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Categories:
waller, adventure,
Form:
Ballad
Sounds...Sounds like Fats ....
Waller or Domino?
I don't know,
who do you want it to be?
Sounds like Bob ...
Marley or Dylan?
I ain't tellin,
who is it you're hearin'?
Sounds like Jimmy
Dorsey or......
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Categories:
waller, history, music, time,
Form:
Free verse