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Fats Domino Poems - Poems about Fats Domino

Why do today what you can put off till tomorrow?

...Why do today what you can put off till tomorrow?

The following extrapolated 
thought thread exercised,
NOT utilized to intimate 
how Fats Domino belied,
and wowed a crowded house ass-sized.

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Categories: fats domino, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberInterview With the Dead Boy - Raymond Mizsak

...Interview with The Dead Boy -Raymond Mizsak

So Raymond, do you know what happened to you? Why you died?

Yeah, I know what happened to me, man, 
but I don’t remember it happening, 
Cause I was...
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Categories: fats domino, death, music,
Form: Free verse



It's True, I Tell Ya

...In ancient days, few knew how to write
So they would sign an "x" as their name,
Then kiss it to show sincerity
So the "x" , a kiss then became!

If anyone ever had regrets
Mr. Giocondo would be...
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Categories: fats domino, fun, history,
Form: Quatrain

Why Do Today What You Can Put Off Til Tomorrow

...(the following extrapolated 
     thought thread exercised,
NOT utilized to intimate 
     how Fats Domino belied,
and wowed a crowded house as-sized).

as a former ace procrastinator, i abhor
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Categories: fats domino, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberFats

...fats domino
atop
blueberry hill



posted on June 23, 2018...
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Categories: fats domino, age, celebrity, nostalgia, song,
Form: Senryu



Je T'Aime Beaucoup

...Written By:  D. Collins 11/17/15

Let me bring ya’ll back to what it once was.
That sweet, Gumbo flavor on the tip of your tongue.
We had The Meters, Chocolate Milk, and Fats Domi...
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Categories: fats domino, lost love,
Form: Sonnet

The Fifties

...Slide-out Coke machines
Bubble gum baseball cards
Superman/Batman comics
Full service gas stations
25 cents a gallon
Dial phones
AM radio
Fats Domino
Black & white TV
Rabbit-ear antennae
Th...
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Categories: fats domino, nostalgia,
Form: List

Rock N Roll

...Rock n Roll

			Rock n roll
			Do the stroll
			The sounds of the 50’s and 60’s
			Elvis Presley singing about “Hound Dog”
			Girls screaming at his feet,
			Elvis “The King”
			Rock n roll
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Categories: fats domino, music, song,
Form: Free verse

1955 Was a Very Good Year

...1955 Was a Very Good Year

By Elton Camp

A better year in my life I have never seen
Because, back then, I was only age fifteen
Nobody I knew had, at that time, ever died
Any problems of the w...
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Categories: fats domino, nostalgia, old, old,
Form: Rhyme

Soul Tunes

...You almost have to be from New Orleans to understand
the mixture of the music that wails throughout the city,
It's zydeco, jazz, Cajun, classical, rhythm and blues
any combination from which you c...
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Categories: fats domino, musicmusic, music, time,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberThe 50's

...In this decade: pizza, soda, 
Colonel Sanders, 
burgers only fifteen cents;
"Tutti Frutti," 
sock hops, "mooning," 
Rock and Roll (monumental consequence);

Rosa's bus ride, 
suburbs, fluorid...
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Categories: fats domino, history, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Wanderings of a Child

...Lea, lush cordial waits
dawn, a promise of dew,
yet couldn’t stop the moment
stealing the moorside view.
The turn of Alf’s cart wheel
broke the silence of the night,
the beat of a lone heartach...
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Categories: fats domino, childhood,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member1956

...I was turning ten and learning the tricks
The year was 1956
I remember that my mother cried
The day that Tommy Dorsey died
I still believed in Santa Claus
James Dean was a Rebel without a cause
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Categories: fats domino, history, nostalgiaheart, heart,
Form: Couplet

Fats

...Are you listening to me ...
turn off that t.v.
he looks like a monkey
swinging in a tree, she would yell
so mad and I'd be so sad
to have to turn away
when I was set to sway
with the Fat Man.
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Categories: fats domino, angst
Form: Free verse

Blueberry Hill

...I can still remember
back when I was a kid
I had a friend called Millie
and we were made for each other
just like peanut butter and jelly
on a piece of crusty bread

on a Sunday afternoon
I'd...
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Categories: fats domino, childhood, friendship, nostalgia, old,
Form: Free verse

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