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
Th...
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Categories:
disco beat, dance, love, marriage,
Form: Ballad
No Dancing, Please
...Lord, deliver me from pride-filled arrogance
For it is perfectly clear, I should not dance,
No matter how much I envy others’ their prance.
These days I dare not even risk the chance
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Categories:
disco beat, dance,
Form: Monorhyme
Howling With the Dancing Moon
...Howling with the Dancing Moon
A man
Sits drinking late into the night
On the night of the blood-red
super blue wolf moon
the lunatic light of the moon
inspires him
as he drinks
in tha...
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Categories:
disco beat, drink, drug, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Disco Fever
...They say disco died as 1980 ended
After platform shoes and flared trousers weren't extended
So body shirts and white suits were old hat
And dancing the disco beat didn’t come back
But don’t you...
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Categories:
disco beat, dance, life,
Form: Ballad
Give Me Your Best James Tate
...They called out "Nutmeg'" hurry up,
Fred is onstage and doesn't want another flop,
I'd been taking dancing lessons overnight,
hoping my under eye bags wouldn't cause too much fright,
Fred in hi...
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Categories:
disco beat, dance, dream, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Monkeys
...monkeys talk and they make sense
about as much as the business men
in central park on their lunch break
or after dark when they escape
monkeys dance to the disco beat
like the hooligans on cit...
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Categories:
disco beat, humor, life,
Form: Light Verse
Night Out
...am going have a good time
going leave my trouble behind
going stoop my feet
to the disco beat
let the music underneath
no doudt
its my rout
NIGHT OUT...
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Categories:
disco beat, adventure, life,
Form: Light Verse
Do You Remember When
...Do you remember when
Life was actually fun
And hot summer days
Found freedom with the sun.
The windows rolled down
The breeze fanning your hair
Cruising with your friends
And laughing withou...
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Categories:
disco beat, inspirational
Form: Rhyme
The Year of 1978
...Disco music, flashing
Lights
Dancing to the disco
Beat…
Shiney clothes,glitter
Was a perfect dress
While grooving to the
Disco beat...
Take me back…
To 1978 when the
Disco groove was
In…
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Categories:
disco beat, life, time,
Form: Free verse