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George Harrison Poems - Poems about George Harrison

Premium MemberPeace 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

Premium MemberBecause

...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



Premium MemberProtagonist 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

Premium MemberOLIVIA'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



Premium MemberLOVE 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

Premium MemberSummer 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

Premium MemberNadir

...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

Premium MemberPoetry 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

Premium MemberToo 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

Premium MemberThe 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

Premium MemberGeorge 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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