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Bojangles Poems - Poems about Bojangles

Bojangles
...I swore over and over and over and over Forever to love her no matter the whim But time after time as each siren would call I rambled and left her my nose — in the wind (Dreamsl......

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Categories: bojangles, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Creativity
...I netted a word today spritzing in the back of mind, examined it from angles: politically, like stars and spangles rhythmically, like Mr. Bojangles spiritually, like sin~ the foolish s......

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Categories: bojangles, inspirational, muse, poetry, surreal,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Fast Food
...A clown named Ronald Sold us on McDonalds Then the King came to play Saying have it your way Old Dave squared the deal Inviting us to Wendy's for a meal The Queen has ice cream treats Old Arby......

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Categories: bojangles, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Beauty In the Moment
...I believe one of the gifts we have been given as we live life day to day is the ability to discover beauty in every moment along the way. I believe if we’ are waiting for that one beautiful momen......

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Categories: bojangles, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Cajun Backyard Nest
...When it rains the grass grows greener and thick like a forest of trees in my back yard Mr. Bojangles, the housecat slowly stalks its prey of wizard-like lizards scattering away. With noth......

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Categories: bojangles, beauty, nature,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Sentimental Song
...Although it was written and recorded in 1968, I think that it was the late 80's when I first heard it. First, arrested by it; later captured; then embraced. For more than 30 years, I have loved th......

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Categories: bojangles, childhood, song,
Form: Verse
1969-1971
...California Dreamin… Momma Told Me Not To Come By The Time I Get To Phoenix Will Anybody Really Know What Time Has Spun Hotel California… Its Chain Gang wearing thin Searching for an American ......

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Categories: bojangles, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Referee and Bojangles Skeleton
...Referee Skeleton was reluctant to join his brother But he was urged by his sister, father and mother So, he went to the speak easy and danced the night away With Bojangles, his brother, who knows ......

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Categories: bojangles, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dance, Even If You Can'T
...I once saw a man one early misty winter morning. He was crossing at the intersection as I was preparing to make a U turn. Upon seeing him, not in worn out shoes, but completely without any shoes, I ......

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Categories: bojangles, dance, heartbreak, life, people,
Form: Narrative
Mister Bojangles Dance
...The imagery of experience, the magic of verse Each word bought and paid for —to bless or to curse (Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: 1971) ‘With Jerry Jeff Walker At The Main Point’......

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Categories: bojangles, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Difficult Decision
...We were blessed to visit with our grandchildren and had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day We ate, we laughed, we played a game before they went on their way. Two of our grandchildren are at the Uni......

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Categories: bojangles, humor,
Form: Verse
Keeper of the Crown
...and the memories of a childhood we shall treasure with each day. You lived a happy lifetime but now as you depart that broken peace of us that hurts still yearns for you to stay. The world is a lonely hunter since your feather flew away dancing like "Bojangles" on a cotton colored cloud~ searching for a rainbow that will brighten rainy days, while singing all your love songs to the Keeper of the crown. Michael 12/28/2014......

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Categories: bojangles, dad, death, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Amazing Feets!
...ncing in "Singing In The Rain" is etched in our minds, So nimble on his feets, performing graceful gyrations of all kinds! Fabulous is the man in "top hat, white tie and tails", Fred Astaire, As he and Ginger Rogers dazzled us with their eloquent flair! "Bojangles" Robinson "tapped" his way across the American stage. He set the standard for tap dancing in its Golden Age! The amazing feets of "Bo" and Shirley Temple in "The Little Colonel!" That cl......

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Categories: bojangles, funny
Form: Rhyme
Mr Ayers
...Mr Ayers staggers across The evening news Unwrapped Like a bojangles from his blues Pictures of things to fly Tangled in the hair Like bats Lips on golden fruits His finger moves And from t......

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Categories: bojangles, caregiving
Form: Free verse
Mr. Lopez and Mr. Ayers
...I flip the history of Bojangles On a cool Sunday evening Los Angeles coming down A flow of oboes breathing Through the lung of the street The hobo not stopping for air Fingers moving in a dance......

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Categories: bojangles, friendshiplove,
Form: Free verse

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