At the Threetuns
...Just a single footlight
Just a single chair
A solitary figure
Sitting comfortably there,
Right ankle resting
On his left thigh
Guitar resting
Comfortably high
Mouth harp held
In its neck st...
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Categories:
bluesman, appreciation, music, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Crossroads
...Once there was a TALL tale
of a young "bluesman" who didn't play very well
Robert was his name
and playing the "Blues" was his game
Hazel Hurst, Mississippi is where he is from
A legend, one day he would soon become
But meanwhi...
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Categories:
bluesman, appreciation, baptism, blessing, creation,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Bluesman
...On many a Sunday, he was a mobile barber
He played a guitar, a harmonica, and hair clippers
He drove 10 miles, delivering us clean cuts and music
People called him Bluesman; we just called him Mr....
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Categories:
bluesman, memory,
Form: Narrative
If You Mourn For Me, Mourn Happy
...IF YOU MOURN FOR ME, MOURN HAPPY
He sat on the laminate floor reading poems he had written years ago
He read them and asked himself did I really write these?
He was surprised the poems were that...
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Categories:
bluesman, age, life, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Gospel According To the Bluesman
...The Gospel according to The Bluesman
Gianni watched the clouds move in
Closed his window for the rain
It was spring and that meant
That it was gonna storm again
He looked out at the street out...
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Categories:
bluesman, 7th grade, america, gospel,
Form: Rhyme
The Pawn Shop
...Bottom feeders flourish
When the economy's a bust
When bad times are the norm
And good times turn to dust
When neighborhoods go south it's sad
But a sign of their demise
Is when a b...
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Categories:
bluesman, community,
Form: Rhyme
The Bartender
...Twenty two years had passed by
She blinked, and a lifetime had passed
She started this job as a lark
She never thought it would last
Two husbands and rehab were part of this bar
The h...
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Categories:
bluesman, america, community, family, heart,
Form: Rhyme
This Breath I'M a Taking
...THIS BREATH I’M A TAKING
The whole wide world
awaits the sunrise
no one want to see the momentum end
maybe it’s for the last time
this old bluesman aught to know.
I’m finished howling at the ...
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Categories:
bluesman, angst,
Form: Free verse
I Shouldn'T
...I knew I shouldn’t,
but despite the pain and hurt I still could
Like the Bluesman said…
“You got a bad way of doing me good”
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)...
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Categories:
bluesman, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme