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
sighs
...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
I 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
Goodbye 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
Hold 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
Anyone 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
You'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
We 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
Before 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
Anyone 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
My 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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