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Bill Haley Poems - Poems about Bill Haley


Premium Member Rock Around the Clock
...Bill Haley sang Rock Around The Clock In gay abandon back and forth kids did rock Some lost their composure Showed too much exposure Gendarmes made them put on their socks......

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Categories: bill haley, history,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Dancing In the Fifties
...Throughout the nineteen-fifties, times were neat; full, long flared skirts and bobby socks gals wore, while rock and roll and doo-wop moved our feet to music slow and fast on the dance floor. E......

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Categories: bill haley, dance, fun, high school,
Form: Iambic Pentameter



Premium Member Ole Time Rock 'N Roll
...Can you name the Old Time Rock 'n Roll wizards Elvis, Jerry Lee, Buddy Holly, and Little Richard And so many more The Platters & Coasters Bill Haley, The Big Bopper, Fats, they all glitte......

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Categories: bill haley, music,
Form: Limerick
If Music Be the Food of Love, Play On
...Scott Joplin, Paul Simon and the Beatles pop, The Stones, Dire Straits and, Yes & ZZ Top. Bob Dylan plays his heart out, Northern Soul, Rod Stewart, The Traveling Wilburys do their stuff, And as ......

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Categories: bill haley, music,
Form: Rhyme
My Father the Craftsman Part Ii
...Suddenly without bedmate and counterpart one month shy of fifty years, no deity could answer razor sharp emotional pain cut to the quick recollecting ballroom dancer himself as a handso......

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Categories: bill haley, adventure, age, angst, appreciation,
Form: Ballade



The 50's
...There was a time when I was young To share an era that begun From music to the fashion trend TV shows and history Fads and other mysteries I saw them all as time moved on From classic pop to ......

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Categories: bill haley, remember, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rock Around the Clock
...Bill Haley sang Rock Around The Clock In gay abandon back and forth kids did rock Some lost their composure Showed too much exposure Gendarmes made them put on their socks © Jack Ellis......

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Categories: bill haley, funny,
Form: Limerick
1955 Was a Very Good Year
...1955 Was a Very Good Year By Elton Camp A better year in my life I have never seen Because, back then, I was only age fifteen Nobody I knew had, at that time, ever died Any problems of the w......

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Categories: bill haley, nostalgia, old, old,
Form: Rhyme
1957
...Laid down on the sofa today, memory taking me back to teen years of so long ago. When friend Danny and I would go down town on Saturday afternoon to see a movie at the Paramount, a movie......

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Categories: bill haley, nostalgiabrother, brother, friend, drug,
Form: I do not know?
That Was Rock and Roll
...Bill Haley gave us 'Rock Around The Clock' showed us music in a different way, Chuck Berry sang 'Johnny B. Goode' and Buddy Holly said 'That'll Be The Day'. Elvis went to 'Heartbreak Hotel' an......

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Categories: bill haley, musicmusic, music,
Form: Rhyme
This Moment
...Saturdays as a youth, were so special to me, it was the one day of the week, that was all mine. Would go see a matinee, double feature would fill my afternoon, thought this moment would last......

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Categories: bill haley, nostalgiachildren,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Vignette-Shooting Stars
...His comet still crosses the sky Visible to the naked eye, And his music rocks around the clock- Such events made their name Leaving each with lasting fame Tribute to Edmond Halley & Bill Haley......

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Categories: bill haley, music, people, science,
Form: Narrative

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