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Grateful Dead Poems - Poems about Grateful Dead

Though an atheist
...Though an atheist.. please oh lord brace and fix me with monetary salvation After umpteen times being swindled reducing me to abject poverty psyche of mine broke into a bajillion little pieces......

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Categories: grateful dead, absence, abuse, analogy, angel,
Form: Free verse
Over our collective figurative eyes commander in chief pulls wool
...Over our collective figurative eyes commander in chief pulls wool... because you watch and see that democracy will unspool military (intelligent) industrial complex tool at Trump's beck and ca......

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Categories: grateful dead, abuse, age, america, anger,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Grateful Dead Cassette
...To be sung to the tune of Little Red Corvette by Prince Roger Nelson I guess I should’ve known by the way you said, “you’ll get it back real soon” That I’d never see it again See, you’re the ki......

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Categories: grateful dead, fun, humor, music,
Form: Lyric
Bad ass beauty brought bedlam, and begat bastard child
...Bad ass beauty brought bedlam, and begat bastard child... courtesy booty call minus preemptive measures while plugg naughty bits of tarnished knight while he took tea and crumpets within mistress......

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Categories: grateful dead, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jerome John Garcia
...Jerome John Garcia was into smoking reefer as a guitarist his music was in his head so he formed The Grateful Dead ......

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Categories: grateful dead, humorous,
Form: Clerihew



major storm on the horizon reported from the forecastle
...major storm on the horizon reported from the "Fo'c'sle" Though forever being a landlubber a vision analogous to the nether world deep within the bowels of the Earth immensely distant from the s......

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Categories: grateful dead, absence, anxiety, destiny, god,
Form: Free verse
Seal fin de siecle with unheard celebration
...Seal fin de siècle with unheard celebration though two thousand nine hundred will be here in seventy five years, a mere blink of the eye never to early to think about fêted occasion which mar......

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Categories: grateful dead, america, anniversary, betrayal, cry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Whole Lotta Love
...I was a late arrival born in nineteen fifty-eight, during the folk revival. As a kid, music was survival. Records then sounded great on a platter or a plate, like Peter, Paul, and Mary, and Pu......

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Categories: grateful dead, music,
Form: Rhyme
Wretched emasculated celibate anchorite
...Wretched emasculated celibate anchorite (any relationship between the following poem and living persons - namely the writer of these words ranks as purely coincidental and fictitious). neverth......

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Categories: grateful dead, adventure, allegory, animal, atheist,
Form: Free verse
Upon the precipice of an abyss
...Upon the precipice of an abyss I stand able, eager, & ready to jump impossible mission to swallow lump muscles primed analogous to pump prayer for soft landing on mine rump bereft this johnny ......

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Categories: grateful dead, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse
i did not use special characters
...Inauguration Day 2025 - Monday, January 20, 2025, 12:00?PM Aforementioned event interestingly enough coincides with Martin Luther King Junior day. The late reverend American minister and activ......

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Categories: grateful dead, america, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
The following fictitious scenario I evoke
...The following fictitious scenario I evoke Analogous to fire breathing puffed up imaginary dragon (in a land called Honah Lee) ye might rightly think what the deuce haunting spectre ace of sp......

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Categories: grateful dead, adventure, age, america, angel,
Form: Rhyme
Ah methinks I could sleep forever
...Ah... methinks I could sleep forever Basking in a supine position with eyes wide shut while the space heater churns out fast moving molecules of heat solitudinarian drowsy thinker fêted by mi......

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Categories: grateful dead, adventure, appreciation, atheist, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Eagerly awaiting until many tomorrows
...Eagerly awaiting until many tomorrows... to become affianced to the grim reaper, who never promised me a rose garden nor crystal clear pool of fragrant delight to accompany last living breath ......

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Categories: grateful dead, adventure, age, atheist, death,
Form: Free verse
Harriet Harris nee Kuritsky
...Harriet Harris née Kuritsky... Despite being a nineteen year old bride she wed Boyce Brandon Harris half a decade her senior, (where I ranked less than a twinkle in their eyes) during the mont......

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Categories: grateful dead, america, anniversary, celebration, death,
Form: Rhyme

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