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Cilla Poems - Poems about Cilla

Radio Days

...Our old fashioned kitchen ways,
way before the modern malaise,
those family favourite, radio days,
Swinging Blue Jeans, Johnny Ray,
Martha Reeves and Marvin Gaye,
those sentimental songs they pl...
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Categories: cilla, 10th grade, childhood, memory,
Form: Rhyme

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...We’re coming up on the spooky pumpkin-latte season, when days suddenly end, while I’m busy in some sterile, fluorescent chemistry-lab and there’s nothing to do but walk down dark science-hill to the ...
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Categories: cilla, autumn, boyfriend, break up,
Form: Free verse



Scraps; Volume 1

...Henry VIII
Henry VIII king of England, he had six wives,
Half of which had rather shorter lives.
Three died, two divorced and the last was glad by far,
For she outlived him, her name Cathe...
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Categories: cilla, humor, nonsense, silly,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberI Love My Country Guy

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"Here is my hand to lead you
Here are my arms that need you"

                      Cilla Black _  I Only Live To Love You 

When I met Henry I thought to myself, this w...
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Categories: cilla, love,
Form: Haibun

Premium MemberGoodbye Meat

...[I have no idea if Cilla Black ever made it outside the UK
But suffice is to say that no rock legend would ever beef-
up his image by proclaiming his adulation for the Liverpool 
lass. The...
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Categories: cilla, memory, music,
Form: Rhyme



Life In Liverpool

...Born into the city I love to call home
Feelings of uncertainty sometimes alone
Staring to the sky looking for a bright star
Life passing you by near or far

Life in the city has not always been ...
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Categories: cilla, places,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHold Me In Your Arms Like You Did Before

...You’re my world, for you are everything to me.
When I awaken, Darling, do you know
how long I sometimes wait that I might see
your eyes come open? How they used to glow
with love for me! But I’ve...
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Categories: cilla, lost love,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberAnyone Who Gave a Damn

...Anyone who’s seen my face, could look at me
and tell of my sadness
Anyone who’s heard my voice or read my words
would call my life absurd,
I long to feel gladness.

If you look inside my he...
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Categories: cilla, desire, lost love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberYou'Re My World

...You’re my world
You’re everything to me
Motherhood
It’s been a joy you see

Ever since you were born
I’ve been so proud
I can’t help
telling the world out loud

When you left
i...
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Categories: cilla, how i feel, i
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberWe Found Paradise, Its Valleys Wide and Soft Green

...We Found Paradise, Its Valleys Wide And Soft Green

When your heart sang to this downtrodden and lost man
singing birds stopped singing to hear that melody;
I was broken, walking through life wit...
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Categories: cilla, appreciation, beautiful, life, love,
Form: Rhyme

Grens Evergreens 4 Cilla Black Contest

...Grens Evergreens # 4 Cilla Black Contest

If anyone had a heart

Scotland Road
L5 
Back in the 1964
Liverpool's hey day
Where the Beatles began

From hanging coats in the Cavern Club 
Surp...
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Categories: cilla, music,
Form: Free verse

My Universal Creation

...I inhale your existence without resistance,
crave your eyes looking at me without fear.
With your hand in mine I can run the distance,
feel your breathe on my nape when you’re near. 
Other...
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Categories: cilla, love, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBefore I Curl Up Like a Rose Abandoned

...Meandering in ocean breeze, love pondered romantic themes
Cherishing each other's company, early days saw happy dreams
Boasting vibrant sunsets we strolled, charming ardent evenings
Wallowing dept...
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Categories: cilla, emotions, heartbreak, longing, love,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberAnyone Who Had a Heart

...And anyone who had a heart
could see the blue in cloudless eyes,
though a storm trespass and tears leak
dreadfully down my caring cheeks.

Once upon a time, he loved me,
and anyone...
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Categories: cilla, love,
Form: Quatern

Premium MemberMy World

...MY WORLD
                          
                            Dear, you are my world
                            sparkling like emerald.
                           I take breath on your breath
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Categories: cilla, appreciation, desire, emotions, love,
Form: Couplet

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