Folk Music Poems - Poems about Folk Music

BEAT MELODIES-

...BEAT MELODIES

boom boom boom a beating of the drum
 include a variety of drums, boom boom boom
 rattles as the snake dance
Liken baby rattles play,
ring them bells,  idiophones.
t...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Timeless

... 

"Tears, grief, memories and tributes of respect. "

                                  Quote by - Constance

On a cloudless sunny day in Orillia fifty family and friends
gather i...

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...

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.

...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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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