Colours In a Cloud Speak
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"Colours in a Cloud Speak"
The colours
of a world
speak
no one
has time
to listen
The spectrums
speak like
music, lucid
like clouds
that pulse ultravio...
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Categories:
chapin, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Call Your Dad
...Young captain
It's been 72 days
Since you talked to your dad
I know there's a war
I know my morning's your night
I know there's a girl
I know I'm not
#1 on your list
But I miss you
I alway...
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Categories:
chapin, father son,
Form: Free verse
Harry Chapin - Story of a Life
...I’m about to tell what’s an important story,
Of a singer who is sadly now long gone,
Whose story needs some increased recognition,
He could p’raps be described a special one.
He was born in ninet...
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Categories:
chapin, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
Bobby's Dad
...My favorite song that I chose was "Cat's in the Cradle".
By Harry Chapmin. I hope you enjoy my flight of imagination.
See link to the original song at the end of my lyrics.
Bobby's Dad
When...
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Categories:
chapin, beautiful, dad,
Form: Lyric
My Psychedelic World
...“Couple in the next room
Bound to win a prize
They’ve been going at it all night long”
While I’m sitting here alone
To no one’s surprise
That’s a common theme in my life’s song
“Well I’m runn...
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Categories:
chapin, lifewords, me, women, me,
Form: Rhyme
The Rebel Poet
...Authority figures, teachers and scholars
Tell me to think for myself;
Then grade my answers right and wrong
Based on an answer key kept on the shelf.
Write a poem that’s unique and original;
N...
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Categories:
chapin, on writing and wordscare,
Form: Rhyme
A Heaven For Musicians
...There has to be a heaven for musicians
A place for old singers to go
Their music still touches our lives
As they did years ago
Ray Charles transcended music type
From country to rock to blues
R...
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Categories:
chapin, music, nostalgia, old, music,
Form: Rhyme
Life Is But a Song
...a thunderous drum beat
or a sweet soothing melody
life flows up and down
like the scales of harmony
Imagine-John Lennon
it's never been hard to see
the pain that resides in me
for m...
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Categories:
chapin, introspection, life, sad, me,
Form: Rhyme
Neglect Creates Holes-Glosa Verse
...Glosa Verse -Cats and the cradle, song by Harry Chapin
A child arrived just the other day,
He came to the world in the usual way.
But there were planes to catch, and bills to pay.
He learne...
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Categories:
chapin, death, life, sad, child,
Form: Verse