Billie Poems - Poems about Billie

Billie Jean Miracle Man 3/16/2025 My first girl friend’s name was Billie. she wore dresses that were short and frilly. Her beautiful smile, Would others beguile, but toward other boys she could be chilly. ...

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Since Billie Joe jumped off the Tallahatchie bridge Nothing has been the same up on the Choctaw ridge Since Bobbie Gentry, it appears Up and completely disappears The Mississippi delta has a new drawbridge. May 20, 2021...

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I love you lady, singing velvet night sky, singing azure violet wounded woolen stitch. I love your lady quavering haunting cry, intoning shades of purple in fevered pitch. I love you lady, even trilling, scraping in torment, your voice straining oppressed about strange fruit. I love you lady dear star teaching your malcontent, piping broken lyrics, imparting pain so acute. I love...

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Ocean eyes and billowing, bulging covering: the most vulnerable parts of you unspoken so somberly sad in the most curious places your style is wild and your flare overstated your smile may lie all she wants but your eyes tell the truth to mine....

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"Good Morning Heartache"- Billie Holiday Born to heartache was Eleanor Fagan in reform school by 9 in Baltimore, Maryland. At 11 years old she was almost raped. But she was blamed and jailed for the case. When 14 she was arrested again, for her and mother's prostitution game. What a sad life for a child, you might say. But this heartache gave...

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Billie died today. Respiratory failure, quiet and painless. She just went away. I sat beside her bed, watching her breath, the blue pulse in her neck. She lay on her right side, pale, fetal-curled, facing the wall, worn out, used up. Hospice told me that the only thing keeping her alive was the oxygen being given though the clear...

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It's like you know when I'm down Always laying by my head Whenever I feel alone You cuddly with me in bed. You never expect anything Just a simple pet Yet you can be stubborn When your mind is set. Since you were a baby Always in my arms With your big eyes staring Suckering me with your charms. You follow me everywhere I'll always know where you're...

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B orn Elinore Harris I influenced all of jazz L ies unknown to you were told L ove of music, your soul I ncarcerated so young, for nothing…a bully E veryone adores your- Lady Sings the Blues H e manipulated you O h so many nights you shone L onliness found you I n clubs, unaware D evestation to you, beware A sad story in...

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Willy, Billie, Betty, and Bob Climbed a tree up to the top They sat down on the highest bough And looked around for a while. Betty, Willy, Billie, and Bob One by one, began to sob For when they finally looked down They found no way to reach the ground. Billie, Betty, Bob, and Willy Are still up there, and look so silly....

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