Disco Poems

Premium MemberSchizophrenic To Disco Lights

 [Bass drop]  
I saw the lights—red, blue, divine,  
Thought the cops were DJs droppin’ beats in a line.  
Sirens wailing like synths on fire,  
My brain said “dance,” my legs said “fly, sir!”

I hit the field like a disco crusader,  
Tripped on a skunk—funk’s personal invader.  
He popped
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Categories: disco, appreciation, character, cool, crazy,
Form: Lyric

Music

Classical is from the Middle Ages
in the mid-1940's we had Bebop
a fast-tempo 19th / 20th century Jazz
then along came Doo-wop
with group harmonies
the 50's brought us rock and roll
which developed the 1960's
(sad to say) Disco and its glitter ball
then psychedelic pop rock
blues and folk rock
and in the 1970's it was Hip-hop
and also Rap
which was misspelt
it should read
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Categories: disco, appreciation, music, word play,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberDisco Music-USPS Stamp

Disco Music

Strobe light looks like moon-sun.
Halo lights of red, blue, yellow, green.
He wears classic Saturday Night Fever white.
She has a white flower in her hair,
head and hips swivel;
one-strapped red dress.
He points with hands over head.
Ballroom floor bittersweet-blue.
Celebration of disco music.

I was dressed in strapless purple.
Burned my bra.
This stamp doesn’t nearly catch
the falderal - not the
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Categories: disco, america, music,
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium MemberTravolta and Our High Heeled Boogie Shoes


Some of you, will in memory, may fondly recall.
Enchanting, colored dance floors, you all had a ball!
When women still wore stunning, gorgeous dresses, 
Unafraid to wear makeup, and sport long, shiny tresses.

No, you were not vaping or drugging it up, to be cool.
You did not want to be a stoner or be the town fool,
Youeven
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Categories: disco, cute, dance, emotions, imagery,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Memberscience lesson at the school disco

   the music was pretty flat ~ but her sun shone in stereo that day

   mono was never enough for me ~ double vision leads me astray

   anyway i couldn't stop staring ~ inner man gave the game away

   a pretty awkward moment ~ goddammit what am
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Categories: disco, 7th grade, growth, perspective,
Form: Monoku


Disco Fever Sweeps the Land

Lit up balls sparkling bright
Hanging like a big bright light
Over a dance floor like a stage 
People dancing a new craze
Disco is catching on fast
I wonder if it's gonna last
One arm staying by your side
The others swinging way up high
Up and down as you shake
Your bottom half like a quake
It was soon brought into life
As
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Categories: disco, dance, fun, music,
Form: Rhyme

Disco fever sweeps the land

Lit up balls sparkling bright
Hanging like a big bright light
Over a dance floor like a stage 
People dancing a new craze
Disco is catching on fast
I wonder if it's gonna last
One arm staying by your side
The others swinging way up high
Up and down as you shake
Your bottom half like a quake
It was soon brought into life
As
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Categories: disco, music,
Form: Rhyme

Disco Dancing

I’m just sitting here in the cold
Feeling oh so I old
Sipping at my beer
Thinking of someone dear

A pair of tight jeans I remember 
At a Disco in December
She was talking to an old friend
The band playing until the end

She had swept her hair like Farah Fawcett
Made her look like a movie star you bet
And we
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Categories: disco, dance, love, marriage,
Form: Ballad

Premium MemberNyla the Disco Queen

Nyla the disco queen was glitzy and groovy
Gyrating like a mirror of fancy prisms
Throwing flecks of light around the room
I was mesmerized, could not stop watching her
She was as dazzling as any chandelier.
Others began watching her.
I glared at them.
She was mine to watch.
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Categories: disco, dance,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWatching Disco Squirrel

Disco squirrel now will reach for the stars
I watch and he takes off; being all ours.
The onlookers are amazed as he goes into a spin.
It’s amazing the fantastic shape he is in!

It’s all that chasing he does during the day.
He has a girlfriend, and boy, do they play!
They have worn a path around my oak
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Categories: disco, animal,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDisco Days

Years ago, almost too long to remember
I was young, full of daring-do, and crazy
In the deepest snows of late December,
The things I did are somewhat hazy!

Driving snow-covered streets at night
Sometimes the only auto out and about,
Heading toward the Disco, out-of-sight
But there would be a crowd of us out.

Dancing the night away to “I Will Survive”
Imbibing
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Categories: disco, dance, friendship, fun, me,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberLiveliest Teenager At the Disco Ball

She was the liveliest teenager at the disco ball hall.
Her mushroom head hat made her sixteen feet tall.
She shimmied and shook, and had a terrific time, a real ball.
We could barely get her peeled off a fellow named Wall.

Wall was frightened of her, she was all that and more.
What kind of teen is she? He
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Categories: disco, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Munich Disco Bar

Nazi disco bar,
     psycho aryan dancers
        fancy cabaret...
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Categories: disco, allusion, appreciation, crazy, creation,
Form: Senryu

Rip King of Bollywood Disco

And the legend!
Oh! to write this very difficult sorrowful!
One after another is passing away!
Mourning for the great Lata Ji is not completed still
And we’ve lost another great unrivaled melodic star
All brightness is now in the fist of the undertaker   

All that glitters is pure gold!- No? Yes, pure gold
Just for the legend- Pure
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Categories: disco, death,
Form: Free verse

Nightclub

Mirror, mirror, mirror ball.
You would be the wisest of them all.
Watching from above, the night roll out,
All the dancing and the drink shout outs.
You would see love at first sights or the start of a fist fight.
Watched them walk in so dressed to impressed, but by the end all disorientated and stressed.
The floor at the
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Categories: disco, drink, social,
Form: Rhyme

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