Long Addie Poems
Long Addie Poems. Below are the most popular long Addie by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Addie poems by poem length and keyword.
Thelma Lou - Both Audio and TextThe biggest funeral I've ever attended...
Thelma was a waitress at the diner on the corner of 4th and Oak, across from Ron’s DX, in Abilene.
They had an old brass register that rang when it was...
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Categories:
addie, heart, love, memory,
Form:
Narrative
The Angry Soup of Racismain't it a shame
when hate lynches
a 14 year old Colored boy
in 1955 Mississippi
and blows away the dreams of
four innocent little Negro girls
in 1963 Birmingham, Alabama
yeah
bus that to your segregated thoughts
as I interracially...
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Categories:
addie, angst, care, old, care, hate, old, racism,
Form:
Free verse
Faces In the FireOn those cool summer evenings when coyotes haunt the night
And the campfire is dying—burning low, then flaring bright,
A cowboy plays harmonica while others sing and hum
While down by the chuck wagon a lonely guitar does...
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Categories:
addie, cowboy-western, death, introspection, loss, sad, time, old,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Weekend WarriorWhy?
Why not!
Their point of view
Each Friday they drank
vengeance
every bottle drowned
another ache
Knights
shedding the end of a week
elegant shine
lost in devil may care
Needs
numbed in a 3-day marathon
Drink, drink,
drink until dread's dead...
Why not?
Coz they can't unsee
a...
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Categories:
addie, addiction,
Form:
Free verse
The Shirelles
This is one of the most famous “girl groups” anyone knows.
They began in Passaic, New Jersey as the “Poquellos”
The four members were Shirley Owens and Beverly Lee,
along with Addie “Mickie” Harris, and Doris Coley.
These four...
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Categories:
addie, dedication, music, nostalgia, tribute, song, song, high
Form:
Rhyme
Strange FruitTears wet at the tip of his chin
Dried, from the wind, on his exposed cheeks
Fresh scent of strange fruit filled the clouds
Which overcast the band that played mournful music with their walk
That sung sorrow...
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Categories:
addie, beautiful, black african american, death, discrimination, slavery,
Form:
Free verse
Our LighthouseAddie Marie Beima.
May 20th 1945 - February 21st 2021
Loving Mother & Grandmother.
With unfailing love,
at some point in life,
she saved us all.
Though we weren't blind,
we couldn't always see,
the dangers which lay ahead.
As a lighthouse,
guides a ship...
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Categories:
addie, bereavement, death, death of a friend,
Form:
Free verse
Addie ShaughnesseyMy name is Addie Shaughnessey,
I’m in love with a Cowboy,
Though he up and rides away,
Time and time again.
I understand the lure,
Of those wide open spaces,
And I’ll be right...
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Categories:
addie, cowboy-western, love, song-
Form:
Cowboy Poetry