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Garfunkel Poems - Poems about Garfunkel

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

Premium MemberThe 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



Premium MemberSilent 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

Premium Memberpainted 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

Premium MemberPaul 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



Premium MemberStill 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

Premium MemberGolden 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

Premium MemberReturn

...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

Premium MemberMusic 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

Premium MemberThe 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

Premium MemberSwim

...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

Premium MemberMelodies 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

Premium MemberTime 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

Premium MemberSongs 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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