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Guitarists Poems - Poems about Guitarists

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

Premium MemberEric 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



Premium MemberWhen 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

Premium MemberB B King

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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

Premium MemberSix 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



Premium MemberThe 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

Premium MemberLearn 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

Premium MemberStevie 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

Premium MemberThe 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

Premium MemberInspiration 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?

Premium MemberMusic 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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