Guthrie Poems - Poems about Guthrie

... Kalamazoo kids went off to war leaving giddy gals to go forward in fractured factories ~from music to munitions gay guitars would wait until battered boys came hurriedly home... or would the......Read the rest...

...Listening to the Boss Singing The Ghost of Tom Joad, Imagining the Okies as they Travelled their Desolation Road. Word Pictures by Steinbeck, Dust Bowl Ballads by Guthrie, Green Pastures Of P......Read the rest...

...As a child of the late1940s, Heard Skiffle, Folk, Rock and Roll Loved country and the blues Loved the sound of soul. Heard, Donegan, Perkins, Presley, Make all those blues based hits Heard Jer......Read the rest...

...John Steinbeck wrote the story Of the Okie family Joad as they Travelled down their bleak Hard California bound road. Tractored out by the Cats After the bank had foreclosed, No feelings of we......Read the rest...

...Here in Chicago, Illinois the landscape is flat No hill or vale to break the monotony A concrete jungle downtown, surrounded by highway Leading to endless cornfields south of the metropolis ......Read the rest...

...1. John Desmond Patrick Keegan 2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 3. Sally Aline Mae Beller 4. Charles Edward A. Berry 5. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce 6. Béla Ferenc Dezso Blaskó 7. Joh......Read the rest...

...Remember when "Suzie" wore her dresses tight When Elton John was Singin' 'bout "Saturday night" Singin' bout the rocket man and his old blue jeans While Arlo Guthrie sung a song 'bout a train ......Read the rest...

... “The Wolf’s Pockets” Virginia knows what’s written in the mass of a rock the heaviness of words not soluble anchored to life that does ......Read the rest...

...The unicorn magician with the slanted eye Let out a peep, a whistle, a plaintive sigh. Alerting two idiot villagers, name of Guthrie and Tie. That things were changing for the worst, bye and bye ......Read the rest...

...You can get anywhere you want On Hannibal's elephant You can get anywhere you want On Hannibal's elephant Climb right up, ride on her back Take you 'bout a mile down the railroad track You can ......Read the rest...

...Bob Dylan is great And he is real mate He started out like Woodie Guthrie But only roughly He told us the answer was in the wind He was all so thin He went electric and creative It went ......Read the rest...

...Last Train Runnin’ For Bob Dylan The nickel-plated moon howled outside my window like a bullet missing from its sleeve A lyric tore through the autumn ......Read the rest...

...I hope to heaven that when I die I meet Woody Guthrie in the sky and then upon a dust-bowl cloud we'll find the grace to sing aloud, and that the Heavens won't debar the using of a stringed guit......Read the rest...

...Transl. of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private - 4 with a Clive Bush comment on Mottram's poetry Excerpt from an article, “From space to caves in the heart recreating the collective world in Eri......Read the rest...

...He’d been on the trail many a month, When he reached the town of Gulrith, A mining village high in the peaks, His named was Wainwright Smith. He searched the west, looking for A sister by the ......Read the rest...