Guitarists' Language
...I tell you my secrets through the hums
Of buzzing, stringed bees
The rumblings of my thumb
I pretend to play it all with ease
My memories seem to wane
But my fingers know their place
A screec...
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Categories:
guitarists, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Eric Patrick Clapton
...A rock and blues guitarist and lyricist and singer,
Whose harmonic music and songs, in environs, linger;
One of the hundred guitarists of all times and seasons,
Clapton's musical art surpasses all...
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Categories:
guitarists, life, music, people,
Form: Rhyme
When the Audience Went Silent
...all other musicians held an instrument
Karla's only instrument was her voice
would it be enough?
she knew it was when the audience went silent
and the guitarists stopped playing...
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Categories:
guitarists, music,
Form: Free verse
B B King
...
He was born on a cotton plantation in Itta Bena, Mississippi.
Among rhythm and blues guitarists, he was the best there could be.
Riley B. King came into the world in 1925.
Entertaining a...
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Categories:
guitarists, history, music, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Six Brothers In Harmony
...Every one of my five brothers
and I strive to create harmony.
Our lives are lived in parallel
yet at times we work alone.
Other times we play well together -
unity and coexistence is our ...
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Categories:
guitarists, brother, music, together,
Form: Sestina
The Great Gig In the Sky - 2020
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We're nearing the end of another year
But this one feels different than before
As we mourn our heroines and hero's
Hearts of family and friends are sore
There's Eddy, Pete and Peter G...
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Categories:
guitarists, deep, giving, guitar, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Learn Guitar My Son
...There was I in my early twenties
sitting bored on a Sunday afternoon
mu mum suggested, get a hobby
but being a loner was well out of tune
My mind was blank till mum said
learn guitar, my son, ...
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Categories:
guitarists, guitar, music, teacher,
Form: Rhyme
Stevie Ray Vaughn
...Great guitarists talents last a whole life long
But that's not sufficient to describe Stevie Ray Vaughan
In my estimation
No other generation
Produced such a talented guitarist, too early...
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Categories:
guitarists, guitar, music,
Form: Limerick
Failure Fuel, Part I
...Ethan was determined to be the best,
to put to shame all other guitarists,
to rock the world in tight, leather pants,
touring like a God across the land.
So at thirteen years he learned three cho...
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Categories:
guitarists, desire, dream, life, music,
Form: Narrative
The Sound of Music
...Doing is knowing,
The sound of music permeates my being,
My flesh longs to dance with the Ravens that speak of freedom,
Maya spoke of the caged bird,
But I say to all birds Fly! to the rhythm of ...
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Categories:
guitarists, angel, beautiful, beauty, celebration,
Form: Blank verse
Midnight Choir
...Frogs, toads, crickets
lizards, cockroaches
rats, owls assembled
in the thick of the night,
with half Angry Moon
as the Choir Master
A thousand melodies,
and a thousand guitarists
but no mus...
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Categories:
guitarists, fear, power, satire,
Form: Free verse
Bored In Manhattan
...I sit, from Canal to 209 and back
watching the doors open and close.
I see glimpses of Times Square's neon lights, West 4th's man-made green, Columbus Circle's arrows to the park
as the doors open...
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Categories:
guitarists, humanity,
Form: Prose Poetry
Inspiration Or Evolution
...Spanish guitarists...
Highest evolution, OR
Proof of the divine?...
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Categories:
guitarists, beauty, inspiration, music, nature,
Form: Haiku
Light of the Sun
...At dawn stood a maiden quite fair
Crown adorned with Apollo's hair
Bright sunshine
Golden rays paint black silhouettes
While guitarists caress their frets
At sunset
She's trapped herself in...
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Categories:
guitarists, sun,
Form: I do not know?
Music Is My First Love
...The concept of a top ten, is a wonderful choice
For Joe Flach's contest, your words become your voice
Typically for me, music comes first
Below are my ten, please read and rejoice
In alphabetic...
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Categories:
guitarists, inspirational, music, on writing
Form: Couplet
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