Long Elvis presley Poems
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Nowhere Man
Nowhere Man
Star dust, the stuff of a fool’s dreams.
Oh !!!, to travel upon star dust streams
- that glorious, never ending journey -
into the realms, the space of many.
This old spirit, seems, not to fit into...
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Categories:
elvis presley, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Riding Sixties Shotgun
I was in the shotgun seat
in 1960 Lansing Michigan
headed straight as a harddrive
through ghettoizing "Negra Section"
hunting down our commercial whitebread
heavenly ThriftyAcres
Wanna be a WalMart ImPlantation
but not Southern enough,
somehow,
to withstand straight-male competition
in fluent White Privileged...
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Categories:
elvis presley, beauty, community, culture, extended metaphor, health, romance,
Form:
Political Verse
A Song Ago
A SONG AGO
Our cousin filled a flash drive with songs
From the Fifties to date,
I would like to share some, beginning with the late,
Mr. Frank Sinatra, Frankie boy,
Still my favourite, to listen to, such joy!
‘I did...
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Categories:
elvis presley, star,
Form:
Verse
Me Against the World
Verse 1: I don't want to be the one that got away
I swear you like the wind every night and day
Katy Perry is on the radio and I'm wondering how it's like to be in...
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Categories:
elvis presley, deep,
Form:
Lyric
What If-Trumptopia Nation Part 2
Trumptopia
Let's be honest and real you have more bias then flammable steel?
What if Hitler found the truck was not alive but yeah he's a man?
Would if be fine if the only reason
Trumptopia
Why he won...
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Categories:
elvis presley, america, analogy, anti bullying, anxiety, confusion, fantasy,
Form:
Dramatic 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:
elvis presley, music, tribute,
Form:
Bio
A Girl and a Boy
The music more or less acts as a sequel to the poem.
Please click onto the music when cued in the poem and continue enjoying it.
The Girl
She looks down at her shoes, they’re nice
An...
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Categories:
elvis presley, anti bullying, anxiety, love, romance,
Form:
Rhyme
Elvis My Impression
This is my impression of Elvis Presley
I was vey lucky to be 16 in 1956 when Rock and roll came into existence the greatest music of all time and for all time, this is...
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Categories:
elvis presley, dedication, devotion, grief, happiness, history, inspirational, life,
Form:
Narrative
Hide the Details
Everybody got a Hollywood life story
to tell
More meat on the bone
give juicier bites
to sell
Nobody ever turns in a tarnished silver screenplay
Those warts and mistakes
get Photoshop casting couch edited away
Baby Jane rude attitude don’t make...
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Categories:
elvis presley, allegory, fun, metaphor, word play,
Form:
Vogon Poetry
Gordon Lightfoot Inspiration
Gordon Lightfoot was born on Nov. 17, 1938, in Orillia, Ca.
His first concert at Massey Hall in Toronto, encouraged by his parents,
He won a contest for boys with unmodified voices prior to turning 13.
In the early...
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Categories:
elvis presley, analogy, appreciation, celebrity, history, music,
Form:
Bio
taxes '25
(It’s that vernal, infernal, tax season. How about a tax avoidance vignette? It’s poetic—in it’s own way)
Some students at a table near us in the dining hall were discussing America’s financial inequities. One guy was...
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Categories:
elvis presley, green, growing up, money,
Form:
Free verse
Me
Allow me to introduce myself sit back and hear a story of a
boy who grew up in philly I was born Dec.25th on a wet and
cold christmas day my parents didn't have much...
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Categories:
elvis presley, childhoodlife, me, old, music, life, love, me,
Form:
Narrative
My Inner Breath Part:2
Fight for your country but we're all brother in soul
Why are we so ignorant of the situation
Why is there so much hatred between our nations
Why are we fighting for the wars
There has only been massive...
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Categories:
elvis presley, absence, angel, future, growth, heaven, identity, image,
Form:
Free verse
Impossible Dream
(25 Elvis Presley Song Titles Used- (bold Print)
One night together, in your lovin' arms...
dear Elvis, my love fairytale, you rule.
I'm all shook up, stirred by your true love charms.
Please love me tender;...
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Categories:
elvis presley, music, tribute,
Form:
Pantoum
The 60s
American Bandstand, Aqua Velva Ads, Aretha Franklin, and, the Andy Griffith Show
Black lights, Bewitched, bean bag chairs, beads, Batman and the Beatles
Cleopatra, Corvairs, Corvettes, Chevelles, Captain Kangaroo, Civil Rights Movement
Dionne Warwick, Derek and the Dominoes,...
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Categories:
elvis presley, america, angst, fashion, history, music, political, war,
Form:
Abecedarian
The Big Show
Sitting here in the dark thinking
Thinking,
Listening to Johnnie Taylor
Taking me back down that old
Memory lane..
Singing “I believe in you”
While the rain beats against my
Window pane..
All the fun memories of my
School days ring out loud &
Clear..
While...
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Categories:
elvis presley, death, friendship, science fiction, song-night, blue, night,
Form:
Free verse
1958
Hillary drives a vehicle to the south pole,
Gibson gives us the Flying V.
In football we can now score an extra two points,
and Legos blocks first hit the street.
50 inches of snow on Mason Dixon line,
no...
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Categories:
elvis presley, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Fabulous Fifties
Fabulous Fifties
is what they called it,
we just called it a good time.
It was a great time in history
to be a teenager, to have our
youth, it was a time for some
to rebel, others to grow up.
Movies...
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Categories:
elvis presley, nostalgiaworld, old, time, longing, new york, old,
Form:
Free verse
What My Mother Means To Me
In December 1951, I turned ten years old--
Harry Truman was president of the United States,
The Korean Conflict raged on a faraway peninsula,
The Golden Gate Bridge closed due to high winds.
My...
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Categories:
elvis presley, love, memorial, mother son,
Form:
Narrative
Soothes My Soul
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...
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Categories:
elvis presley, music,
Form:
Lyric
Magic Is the Mind
MAGIC IS THE MIND
Poetry is to poets a fantasy world,
You can say the truth or be absurd,
You can travel to Venus if you like,
Go by rocket ship or merely hitch hike,
Anything is possible...
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Categories:
elvis presley, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Memories of Jessie
(A lone voice whispers)
It's early morning as I stand here in our old bedroom
Listening to my old friends the robins, blackbirds, and thrushes
The twitterings, tweeting and chirps of wild birds
That now live in...
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Categories:
elvis presley, grief,
Form:
Rhyme
Dancing In the Fifties
Throughout the nineteen-fifties, times were neat;
full, long flared skirts and bobby socks gals wore,
while rock and roll and doo-wop moved our feet
to music slow and fast on the dance floor.
Each Saturday, we'd all go to...
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Categories:
elvis presley, dance, fun, high school,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
You Were Always On My Mind
Maybe I didn't listen when you told me
Your heart was gentle and kind
Maybe I didn't understand, but you could
have shown me...
All the reasons you were going to move on
All the feelings that were finally gone
All...
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Categories:
elvis presley, humorous, music, relationship, romance,
Form:
Lyric
Music To My Ears
All types of music appeals to me
Bohemian Rhapsody was one of the first records I brought
Can’t specify one style over another, I will listen to anything
Depends on my mood as to what type of music...
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Categories:
elvis presley, me, music, nostalgia,
Form:
Abecedarian