Peace of Mind
...During my time on our blue-green sphere,
I sometimes feel turmoil, living here.
I've found ideas I can release
to ease my mind and give it peace.
I do not need to have lots of things.
Pleasure...
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Categories:
george harrison, mental health, peace, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Because
...Inspired by the Beatles song from Abbey Road, written by John Lennon, and featuring three-part vocal harmony with Paul McCartney and George Harrison.
Aah
Because the sun is bright
it makes...
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Categories:
george harrison, appreciation, blessing, freedom, growth,
Form: Lyric
Protagonist of George Harrison
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Written: May 5th, 2025, for contest by Brian Strand
Painting by Peter Doig. A concise abstract on Abbey Road and its pivotal moment. He subsequently produced outstanding music. H...
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Categories:
george harrison, art, music,
Form: Ekphrasis
The Ghost of Frankenstein - Things to Come
...You’d recreate a military hero?
Macarthur, maybe? Nimitz? Pershing? Sherman?
Or would you choose a leader from the past?
Suppose you went for Mussolini – Nero –
(I can’t remember what they called...
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Categories:
george harrison, future,
Form: Rhyme
OLIVIA'S WORDS
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May we be blessed to see…
Oh how I wish we could!
How beautiful life would be
If we understood what George Harrison understood
It’s a simple plan for living…
for keeping our life on track:...
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Categories:
george harrison, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
LOVE ONE ANOTHER
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We grew up with a love for nature
In messages from the trees, the flowers…the ocean we discovered our salvation…
and once a feeling imprints onto your heart and soul…
It leads to a lifetime infa...
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Categories:
george harrison, love,
Form: Rhyme
Another Year Remembered-1961
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Nineteen hundred and sixty-one,
was a strobogrammatic year.
It will be six thousand and nine,
‘til the next time that will appear.
It started off aggressively,
Ike told Cuba to go to Hell.
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Categories:
george harrison, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Summer Concert
...Tonight,
A pretty older mother,
At my retirement community's July 4th summer concert,
Speaks to her daughter with a thick Korean accent.
The Traveling Wilburys tribute band plays songs by
The ...
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Categories:
george harrison, age, community, happiness, music,
Form: Free verse
Nadir
...Born into a landscape,
Not quite littered with landmines,
But the occasional hole -
Holes that seem inescapable,
Like quicksand -
When I fall, I just keep falling.
Where is the bottom, the ...
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Categories:
george harrison, depression, hope, time,
Form: Free verse
Poetry Soup Is
...Poetry Soup Is…
A place to post words and be heard
a platform for prose, a poet’s eatery
A sonneteer’s palace, for the sagacious or the absurd
A silver chalice that pours golden poetry
Rhymed...
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Categories:
george harrison, analogy, community, how i
Form: Rhyme
Too Close to the Edge of the Precipice
..."I'm going down to the river gonna take me my rocking chair
Going down to the river gonna take me my rocking chair
And if those blues don't leave me
Gonna rock on away from here" by George Har...
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Categories:
george harrison, age, death,
Form: Couplet
Kiss the Leopards
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"Kiss the Leopards"
Kiss the leopards
before dying
confiscate their spots
for memories
ever changing
to place as stars
stamped across a sky
of evergreen
where h...
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Categories:
george harrison, muse,
Form: Free verse
The Beatles
...The
Beatles
Ringo Starr
George Harrison
With Paul McCartney
And John Lennon
Also, Pete
Best, played
Drums
Girl
Get Back
In My Life
Can't Buy Me Love
I'll Follow The Sun
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Categories:
george harrison, music,
Form: Ninette
George Harrison Mbe
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George Harrison
Quiet Beatle by comparison
Kermit the Frog was one of his peeps
Still his guitar gently weeps...
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Categories:
george harrison, celebrity, guitar, imagination, life,
Form: Clerihew
Chilling
...I switch on some ethereal New Age music
and pick up a pen and start to write verse
My mind brings forth images of peace
The music drives away whatever left - over fears
I had during the day
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Categories:
george harrison, music, peace, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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