Long Beale Poems
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More Jazz PleaseMy roommates Leong, Sophie, (Charles) and I were coming from a Yale sporting event. The sky looked like a dirty Swiffer-mop and the wind seemed to be ignoring the posted 20mph speed limit. It was...
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Categories:
beale, food, friendship, fun, god, happy, music, school,
Form:
Free verse
I Love You Elvis
Elvis Aaron Presley, Elvis, came from poor beginnings
born in Tupelo, Mississippi to Vernon and Gladys
this boy loved the gospel music in church . . . .
at thirteen his family moved to Memphis, Tennessee
when...
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Categories:
beale, music, tribute,
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Bio
This Poem Wants 2 B a RevolutionaryThis poem wants to make a change . . .
To be a strong yet silent raised fist in Mexico, 1968.
To stand at a window w/a shotgun writing the words
“By any means necessary”
To sit in at...
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Categories:
beale, analogy, discrimination, inspiration, political, race, social,
Form:
Free verse
The Silent TeardropContext: This was a letter written to Frank who is a character in the book If Beale Street Could Talk.
Dear Frank,
Your head is muddled with thoughts of your own son.
Your only son.
Incarcerated.
Life for you...
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Categories:
beale, absence, change,
Form:
Verse
The Night That Lutie Mae Mcdaniel Sang the BluesI was on my way to Nashville,
Planned to be a country star,
The Grand Old Opry was where I was meant to be.
I drove across the Mississippi,
Stopped in Memphis for the night,
And that's where fate stepped...
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Categories:
beale, destiny, fate, music,
Form:
Verse
Peace FrogsTonight I walk alone
For no apparent reason
I have friends who care for me
But I had to get out of the bar
I couldn’t stand the band (and I was in it) and the smoke
Was choking...
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Categories:
beale, crazy, drink, music,
Form:
Free verse
The SmokersIn the corners where the smokers smoke,
A rainy day on beale street for music folks.
They claim they don't remember a thing under the green smoke.
Trying to hide the moments of their joy.
Days when the smokers...
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Categories:
beale, age, boy, city, corruption, deep,
Form:
ABC
Beale Street Blues Boy
Way down in Itta Bena
Down the Mississippi way
B. B. King was born
And boy could this guy play
This...
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Categories:
beale, art, black african american, inspirational, music
Form:
Rhyme
Poverty To Royalty© Ben Burton 2-8-2015
When sunrise broke, expected clouds
Were nowhere to be seen
Yet, rain was falling in the crowd
Halfway to Beale Street
Across the well-kept, mourning lawn
Inside the noted gates
A million tears for every song
Sprang forth to...
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Categories:
beale, tribute, drug,
Form:
Rhyme
Gardens GreyPardon my Gardens; they're withered and grey:
Unkempt and wild and quite defiled
Given my odd and reclusive ways:
Eccentric is my fashion style
Look at Life through special glass:
I see it all now magnified
But my gardens grey, my...
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Categories:
beale, beauty, celebrity, character, dance, death, fear, garden,
Form:
Rhyme
Piano ManIn Memphis, on Beale Street,
The piano man played,
A whiskey on ice at his side.
He commanded his fingers
And oh, they obeyed
And we all tagged along for the ride.
He sang what he liked
And he'd take a request
And...
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Categories:
beale, music,
Form:
Rhyme
In PersonWhen a place becomes immortalized
In song or written word,
You wonder if the image matches
What you've read or heard.
It's similar to when you get
A real-life close-up look
At a painting you have only seen
In prints or in...
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Categories:
beale, travel,
Form:
Rhyme