my favorite songs
...The playlist of a musicophile:
Air Supply - Two Less Lonely People
America - Lonely People
Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer
Barry Manilow - I Made It Through The Rain
Barbra Streisand -...
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Categories:
garfunkel, music, nostalgia,
Form: List
The Boxer verse 6
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The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkel
The Boxer-verse 6
I’ve truly fought the good fight
And I’ve lost more than I’ve won
But no matter what the outcome
I know that I can live with pride
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Categories:
garfunkel, song,
Form: Lyric
Silent Sounds
...Silent Sounds
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
From The Sounds of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel
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Categories:
garfunkel, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
painted ladies
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painted ladies
over the years i have forgotten her eyes
that her smile was soft
and her hair like chiffon on a wednesday morning
we walked along stanyan street
celebrating the color...
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Categories:
garfunkel, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Paul Frederick Simon
...Paul Frederick Simon
who is nicknamed rhymin’
for a while on Art Garfunkel was reliant
and gave us The Sounds of Silence
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Categories:
garfunkel, music,
Form: Clerihew
Still Here
...I am just a poor boy
Though my story's seldom told
I have squandered my resistance
For a pocketful of mumbles
Such are promises
All lies and jest
Still, a man hears what he wants to hear
And d...
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Categories:
garfunkel, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Golden Age of Music
...Two decades of music were known as the golden age.
It was all the rage, the era from the 50s through the 70s
Motown, Rock and Roll, and Blues that touched my heart.
Listening to them always start ...
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Categories:
garfunkel, music,
Form: Free verse
Return
...Homeward bound
I wish I was
Homeward bound
Home where my thought's escapin'
Home where my music's playin'
Home where my love lies waitin'
Silently for me
Homeward Bound by Simon and Garfu...
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Categories:
garfunkel, love,
Form: Ekphrasis
Music Memories
...Music Memories
I am flipping through my LP’s and forty-fives. Long ago memories captured for posterity. I look at the cover art, lost in today’s digital world. As I go th...
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Categories:
garfunkel, music,
Form: List
The Sound of Silence
...This scribble has nothing to do with the famous song of Simon and Garfunkel. It's just a story I invented.
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I bought a cottage in the middle...
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Categories:
garfunkel, baby, love, silence,
Form: Free verse
Rest your eyes - dodo
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Go and rest your weary eyes.
Go and rest your dreary head.
Lie la lie, lie, lie, lie, lie,
sleep my son, tonight.
Lie la lie, lie lie lie - from the Boxer - Simon & Garfunkel.
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Categories:
garfunkel, allusion, blessing, child, dream,
Form: Dodoitsu
Swim
...I watch a golden sun slowly rise above the eastern sea and my thoughts naturally drift to her. I wonder what she is doing, and if she ever dreams of me.
A southern breeze gently caresses my...
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Categories:
garfunkel, confusion, desire,
Form: Haibun
Melodies Mixed In Me
...Elton John, Billy Joel
Simon and Garfunkel
Dan Fogelburg, Jim Croce
Streisand, the Hollies
John Denver, Phil Collins
Don McClean
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
These a...
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Categories:
garfunkel, memory, music, song,
Form: Rhyme
Time Flies
...thick hair, no hair, wow
young man, then older man now ...
it snuck up on us
3/18/2023
Poetry form: Senryu
Photo credits: Billion Photos via Canva Pro
At times like this, I'm d...
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Categories:
garfunkel, age, change, hair, life,
Form: Senryu
Songs Inspired Haiku String
...[Songs Inspired two line haiku
The first line is the name of a song]
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[Foreigner]
waiting for a girl like you -
the wild flower by the gate
[Phil Co...
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Categories:
garfunkel, inspirational,
Form: Haiku
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