Crooned Poems

Premium MemberTatianas Twinkles

...                        Tatiana’s Twinkles

Once upon a time, a poetess created, such lovely, rhymes.
But, once the doors on free spech were forever closed, she 
went on to be a mime!

She s...
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Categories: crooned, freedom,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTHE GLASS JAW OF MY UNCLE BOB SATTERFIELD

...MY UNCLE BOB SATTERFIELD WAS QUITE FAMOUS FOR HIS POWERFUL PUNCH BUT ALSO FOR HAVING A GLASS JAW ACCORDING TO ALEX RAMOS THE DIGNITY FOUNDATION RETIRED BOXING ASSOCIATION I ADORED WATCHING BOB AND EZ...
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Categories: crooned, allah,
Form: Naat


Premium MemberI'M ALSO A SONG

...I’m Also A Song

Hey…
I’m also a song
And I’m not afraid
To sing my own tune
But don’t 
Think me 
Arrogant 
Or selfish
You too
Are a song
To be sung
But this song
Is about me
Rather th...
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Categories: crooned, allegory, analogy, character, extended
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBURPS

...Miriam Millicent Mannerheim-Merps
Loved calling her two younger brothers, twerps
After she had her first child
Both were very sweet and mild
But when baby nursed, they crooned her with burps.
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Categories: crooned, baby, brother, child, love,
Form: Limerick

The Night New York Slept

...It was one solemn, long night,
Tenebrous with the astuteness of perfidy,
And multiple hours before the break of an
Impatient dawn.
Lampposts froze through the pergola of winter.
Limp from exposu...
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Categories: crooned, city, new york,
Form: Free verse


Jukebox Requiem

...ANGIE, that last slow dance in smoky haze—
you slipped UNDER MY THUMB like twilight’s ache.
The Rolling Stones crooned fate through tangled days;
I tried to PAINT IT BLACK for mercy’s sake.

But...
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Categories: crooned, imagery, inspirational, meaningful, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSmiles Of Childhood Days

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A sudden drizzle gushed along the street,
That I wiggled out , romping and playing 
In my cotton jumpshirt as summer cooled,
To allow a downpour of monsoon rain.

Swerving through puddles  w...
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Categories: crooned, childhood, fun,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberThe Golden Age of Music

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Thanks to Rockabilly being wed to R & B,
History changed drastically when Rock became mainstream.
Elvis crooned and moved his hips. Girls began to scream.

Goodn...
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Categories: crooned, music,
Form: Acrostic

A Kiss In The Dark

...We weren't always dolls

Before the dolls - flesh was

RAW

and torn

Before we were dolls we could rip open our skin

and bare it to the world

and when a little girl peered inside

ev...
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Categories: crooned, analogy, gothic, psychological, self,
Form: Free verse

Towering Tones

...Better Than Best!!!!!
_______________________


Ruther Casttill a pension schemer, and retired
Dairy farmer: who married Lilly Coa Dang's daughter who is one of
Adebayo Ackah 16 children. My na...
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Categories: crooned, adventure, film, music,
Form: Bio

Premium MemberAnnapolis Too, Do-be-do-be-do

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      Glenn Campbell sang of Wichita
         Trini Lopez of Kansas City

      Otis Redding crooned of Sausalito, CA
         Sittin’ on the dock of a bay

      Chicago was Sinatra’s kind o...
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Categories: crooned, celebrity, city, flying, music,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMetamorphosis

...“blessings from above
transformed lust to love
delusion to illumination
earth-heaven bilocation” - Unseeking Seeker   

When rays of saffron atonement  
streak thr...
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Categories: crooned, fate, feelings,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberEUROVISIONs GOLD-Sleep My Love 1958

...Enchants, “Dors, mon amour,” night of romance.
Long ago, he crooned, put hearts in a trance.

André Claveau, nearing fifty years old,
effulgence of French lips, Eurovision’s gold.

Some audienc...
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Categories: crooned, love, sleep, song,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberThe Rainbow Bridge Church, chs 4 and 5

...Chapter Four: The Rescue

     Out he dashed, into wind and rain, his big ears flying behind! He caught the scent of the little pup, she'd not be hard to find.
    
 Back at the Rainbow Bridge Oa...
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Categories: crooned, animal, bible,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFading

..."Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more, in the leafless root there is no less" - Ralph Waldo Emerson


I'm a sunflower, 
dipped in honey of 
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Categories: crooned, angst, dark, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse

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