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Folk Music Poems - Poems about Folk Music

Premium Member Give me back the seventies
...the seventies is my go-to decade for it is when I was my cutest and my three daughters were born I looked terrific in my bell bottom jeans the edge of them had rickrack and lace I embroidered ......

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Categories: folk music, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thinking Anout Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
...Thinking About the Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan 1963-A new voice appeared in the folk music scene, his songwriting skills came into play with this album. Eleven of the thirteen songs were his origina......

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Categories: folk music, music,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member On MacDougal Street
...I'm nobody that you'd know - maybe you can call me Joe. Walking down MacDougal Street, I had no one to meet. A New York night without a friend, I dropped into The Bitter End to escape the col......

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Categories: folk music, history, music,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Banjo Man
... When I sit alone with my memories My mind drifts back to the early 60s When folk music was all the rage The New Christy Minstrels, Peter Paul and Mary The Brothers Four, The Limelight......

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Categories: folk music, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Recognized Her on the Street
...Her dreadlocks were familiar as was her patchouli smell I recognized her folk music, understood it rather well She brought back the seventies in the sweetest way I was thrilled to stumble upon thi......

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Categories: folk music, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Canadiana Folksingers
... When I sit alone with my memories My mind drifts back to the early 60s When folk music was all the rage The New Christy Minstrels, Peter Paul and Mary The Brothers Four, The Limelighter......

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Categories: folk music, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Timeless
... "Tears, grief, memories and tributes of respect. " Quote by - Constance On a cloudless sunny day in Orillia fifty family and friends gather i......

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Categories: folk music, music, tribute,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Footles of Bands
...work in progress Footle of Country Bands S**t Kickers/slide guitar cowboys Stetson John Denver/folk music “Thank God” fiddler Footle Of Rock Bands Guitar strings/st......

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Categories: folk music, humorous,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Woodstock Wild
...Woodstock wild is what the musicians knew Plain dairy farm in New York, reservation due. I was too young, alas, or I would have been there. Loving the music, the ambiance, wild as old dog hair. ......

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Categories: folk music, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Remember Those Days
...At the annual scarecrow contest I saw a guitar loving boho scarecrow She was whimsical, fun, and she reminded me of happier times She was wearing a seventies shirt. I almost expected folk music. W......

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Categories: folk music, age, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ode To a Female Folk Icon
...Joan Chandos Baez is an American singer Eighteen years old, first of the later date protest folk singers Famous before Bob Dylan! Songwriter, musician, and activist. Folk music of protest an......

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Categories: folk music, appreciation, celebrity,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Where Have All the Flowers Gone
...The Vietnam War came immediately into my mind And how sad it was, because so many young men died They were innocent, many between eighteen and twenty The rest of us lost our innocence too as they ......

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Categories: folk music, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member September 25, 2021
...SEPTEMBER 25, 2021 It was a bright sun, blue sky day, refreshingly cool, destined to be short in a post autumnal equinox way, the morning farmer’s market shimmering with activity, with varieti......

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Categories: folk music, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mirror Mirage
...I feel twelve most days, on rare occasions, I feel nineteen. When folk music from the sixties comes on, I am seventeen. I do not remember being any ages in between these ages and my real age. I do......

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Categories: folk music, age,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If I Were a Taxi Cab
...If I were a taxi cab, I would not charge people. I would delight them with free rides from St. Louis to New York. Babies would love being born in my backseat. I would travel the world, at a good c......

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Categories: folk music, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Personification

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