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Janis Poems - Poems about Janis

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Premium Member That Was Then - This Is Now
...“Freedom is just another word for nothin left to lose. Feeling good was easy Lord, when he sang the blues” ~ Janis Joplin ~ Life was filled with laughter. A feeling of happy ever after......Read the rest...
Categories: janis, freedom, prison,
Form: Rhyme



'Down On Me'
...In West Port Arthur the winds blew hard to carry her away The times were ripe Big Brother raw that crossroads by the bay Her dive was deep through Kozmic Blues a legend to unfurl But not esc......Read the rest...
Categories: janis, music, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 27 Club
...mama and papa begged their musician son to not join a band, although hedonistic fun we are terrified you will soon be a member of twenty-seven we would miss you terribly if you decided to return t......Read the rest...
Categories: janis, music,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 1960's Swingers
... The great Elvis Presley stole the show When it came to music, fast and slow Patsy Cline could sing so sweet and fine Without a doubt, her voice would shine Hank Williams had a......Read the rest...
Categories: janis, appreciation, feelings, music, song,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member It's Ugly When I Cry
... "When I was a kid my dad left me in a bad way .... he was in the lives of my sisters and brothers but he wasn't in mine." Quote ......Read the rest...
Categories: janis, blue, music,
Form: Bio



Premium Member The 27 Club
... It is with sadness and long remorse That we entertain this curse of course It’s most absurd, and that’s the rub Introducing the twenty seven club Each decade we see the number gr......Read the rest...
Categories: janis, bereavement, death, drug, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
The Number 27
...In the pages of history there's a baffling mystery about the passing of the crew since eighteen ninety two. Bright stars turned to dim whether fat or slim, no one's young, no one's old, t......Read the rest...
Categories: janis, death, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The 27 Club Rocked Me
...Rock Stars who died at age 27 and the eerie coincidence that gave rise to some Jimi Hendrix-Played electric guitar with his teeth and left hand Ripped through scales, held notes, used ......Read the rest...
Categories: janis, celebrity, culture,
Form: Couplet
27 Forever
...This little girl blue life did take a toll Oh Janis, first lady of rock’n’roll Your ol’ kozmic blues are good for the soul A piece of our hearts you did sever Jim opened the door to the other s......Read the rest...
Categories: janis, tribute,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Melophile
...I've always been a mellow type of fellow Laidback like dem seats in that Cadillac Yeah! Real chill like that sleek '73 Deville Even as a little boy the jukebox was my toy Sweet rhythms of lif......Read the rest...
Categories: janis, appreciation, art, beautiful, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Edward Hyde's Sanctuary
...ACT I Night enters. Ned Sandy: paralysed in eye by gun shot. Scene: Mannequin with rotting limbs “Deadman on the Freeway.” And instead of being the good guy, he’s good, bad, worse. Why kil......Read the rest...
Categories: janis, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Janis
...JANIS Janis; was a rock and roll singer A real hard times, living swinger The sex and drugs, took its toll Before long, that youth was old But; all her songs still sang out Her vocals; were n......Read the rest...
Categories: janis, absence, addiction, beautiful, betrayal,
Form: Couplet
27
...Celestial sphere by sums explained, numbers in melodic scale referred. Trines in building block of expression, energies and its obsessions. The 27 club of famous death, and the rock n roll lov......Read the rest...
Categories: janis, memory,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member P S It's Poetry Write On Write On Congrats To My Fellow Poetry Soupers Part 10
...P S ITS POETRY WRITE ON WRITE ON CONGRATS TO MY FELLOW POETRY SOUPERS PART 10 Many thanks to you selected poets; Of sharing your whispers from God, tho you didn’t know it; Each letters and each......Read the rest...
Categories: janis, analogy, appreciation, inspirational, poets,
Form: Free verse
Lost the Unwrote Music
...No more purple prince who kissed himself maybe just looked purple through Jimi's haze Are tha missing some respect Chesters numb not even crawling Amaze has its back to the black I maybe curt ......Read the rest...
Categories: janis, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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