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Boogaloo Poems - Poems about Boogaloo

Premium Member NINE MILES OF BLU
...NINE MILES OF BLUE By Tony Adamo (Nov.25,’05) Hip spoken’ Word I walked into a little jazz dive off 125th and Lex a cold wind blew me through the swingin’ doors/ Beer, peanuts, dark smoke......

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Categories: boogaloo, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
Premium Member totem and taboo
...Was it last year, or yesterday? Old Totem asks Taboo Who ordered orchestra to play Was it myself or you? We never ever ordered that Replied to this Taboo But they performed a finest set Played......

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Categories: boogaloo, fun, humor, mystery,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member 5th Avenue Sunrise
...jampacked city streets that jangled and banged in the raucous jarring day shifted from business to boogaloo squeezing into moonlight party lights gin and lime-kissed gimlet sequined dress st......

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Categories: boogaloo, city, culture, day, new
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bag of Spiders
...Inside this cell no sell, just a bag of spiders big and fat with gnarly hands she tucks away fifty crawlies in her hat Her name is Katz and she loves cats but not old stinky rats she thr......

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Categories: boogaloo, prison, slavery,
Form: Rhyme
Safe Yank
...Safe Yank The American was a typical man of his breed Loving guns and weapons and ammunitions He had a huge collection of firearms at home Well over 300 rifles and hand guns of all kinds From Re......

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Categories: boogaloo, history, usa, war,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member The Unexpected Moments
...The Unexpected Moments 1. Spider floats down a web, you grab at the web, then you toss it out the door, you feel a tug in your hair, eig......

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Categories: boogaloo, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: List
Golden Oldies
...Dimes drop, records begin to drop Rhythm to stroll, jivin’ to hip hop Slow to jitterbug, boogaloo to rock Twistin’ Chubby and rock around the clock The Platters sing, you hold her close Eye......

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Categories: boogaloo, music, nostalgia, remember,
Form: Rhyme
Look Who Showed Up
...As I set out To jot down this poem I had no earthly idea Of what would transpose And who all would be Joining along I'm as surprised as you To these goings on I don't recollect A......

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Categories: boogaloo, fun, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Brahms and Liszt
...Happy. Genial. Merry. Jolly Blottoed, blasted, etched and blitzed Mellow, foggy, hazy, squiffy Tipsy. Tiddly. Brahms and Liszt Dazed, zombied, tanked-up, trollied Ganted, gubbed, guttered......

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Categories: boogaloo, drink,
Form: List
Eternity Is a Very Long Time
...So many things in life I'd like to know So little time for me to gather answers The tango, jerk, the bop, the boogaloo Were any of them favorites of Dancer? Mid-afternoon, an outside noise dist......

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Categories: boogaloo, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Electric Boogaloo
...That’s it you see lights twisting turning Yearning Heat on skin Sweat popping Beats dropping DJ hit me again I need it I got it It is about to go down......

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Categories: boogaloo, dance, fun, smile,
Form: Free verse
Latin Boogaloo Feeling Haiku
...latin boogaloo moves me to euphoric states of funktified bliss!......

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Categories: boogaloo, how i feel, music,
Form: Haiku
Wet My Entire Pants
...Wet My Entire Pants If into your back I sank my claws Do you think you could give to the cause After both of my claws were released Would your dead body be properly policed. If some body mus......

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Categories: boogaloo, humorous, philosophy,
Form: Couplet
Phase Line Whatever
...here I go again on a belt fed groove, suck it up ruck it up, legion on the move, all the things we used to have all too soon are gone, wave goodbye eyes gone dry, another trek thro......

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Categories: boogaloo, grief, war,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Veterans of Vietnam
...Do you still carry it with you, the rifle of the fight? Are you absolved in your bravery even though you did not die? Do you see worth for what you risked? I could not smell your perspiration as ......

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Categories: boogaloo, memorial day,
Form: Free verse

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