Friendship Guitar Poems

Due to an inherent desire
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*** SINGING MEMORIES ***

“Many days you have lingered around my cabin door.
Hard times, come again no more.” **

A memory came flying through to me this...

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“Hello….uh, umm…Have we met?...Yea, that's right…Sure… Karen?”

Well I don't know you well but you seem like the kind
That might join me for coffee at the...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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I see my old guitar in the corner there … It looks back at me with contempt I think … For how long has it...

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WHEN I HAD ASKED HER WHERE SHE'D BEEN
SHE ANSWERED
AT A CONFERENCE FOR
KANUON HALTER
AT THE BOOTSINGER CONFERENCE HALL
I HAD TO DO SOME UNDERHIM WORK
WE PUT OUR...

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My heart is a drum, 
My hands are symbols,
I have a voice like a cat 
And people use thimbles.

They plug up their ears
And over the...

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i will never touch a christmas tree again.

the bristles, serrated. the bristles, poisoned. the bristles, double edged.
the ornaments shatter between my fingers.
i clean up puddles...

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I was about four,
Was sitting on the shore.
And it was around two,
That’s when I met you.

You were strolling down the beach,
In your hand you held...

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Anticipation,
faces sparkling,
wrinkles smiling,
memories at the ready.

Friends inter-mingling, while great grandchildren run through the gathering crowd.
Sun streaking through branches, warming joints, and turned up faces seeking...

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One day at a bluegrass jam of mine
A guy was playing guitar just fine
I told him you’re be up before long
Are you ready to sing...

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