Long Garfunkel Poems
Long Garfunkel Poems. Below are the most popular long Garfunkel by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Garfunkel poems by poem length and keyword.
Golden Age of Music
Two decades of music were known as the golden age.
It was all the rage, the era from the 50s through the 70s
Motown, Rock and Roll, and Blues that touched my heart.
Listening to them always start...
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Categories:
garfunkel, music,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of the Complete Version of Scarborough Fair By T Wignesan
La Fête foraine de Scarborough (La Version complète)
For the medieval English poet and Simon and Garfunkel
- In admiration -
Allez-vous à Scarborough fête foraine ?
(Sur la côte d'une...
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Categories:
garfunkel, farewell, girlfriend, lost love, love, war,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Categories:
garfunkel, how i feel, love,
Form:
Verse
Your Calling
I must admit that the subject of 'favorite artist' causes me to pause. ...
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Categories:
garfunkel, courage, destiny, god,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Classic Rock N Roll
Carlo Santana's Black Magic Woman,
in the 60's and 70's gave magic to his
band..
Drugs were part of this movement it's
fair to say. Getting high for many,
while listening to their music, was the
common way
...
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Categories:
garfunkel, drug, music,
Form:
Rhyme
Sing To Me
You have a living song in you that no one else can sing like you. ...
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Categories:
garfunkel, inspiration, song,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Our Music Was Is the Best
It’s funny how each generation thinks their music is the best
that the songs of their youth are the best songs…
and how each generation knows that they are right…
and every other generations out there must be...
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Categories:
garfunkel, music,
Form:
Rhyme
51 Years and Still Hoping
We were filled with hope for peace and love in the 60’s
but how quickly that hope would decline
as our dreams and wishes turned to ashes by the end of 1969.
But 51 years ago today our...
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Categories:
garfunkel, love, peace,
Form:
Rhyme
The Sound of Silence
This scribble has nothing to do with the famous song of Simon and Garfunkel. It's just a story I invented.
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I bought a cottage in the middle of nowhere,
Right at the edge of the...
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Categories:
garfunkel, baby, love, silence,
Form:
Free verse
Prom of 1970
We all had homemade dresses for prom; well, nearly all of us.
This was back in 1970 while black and white Viet Nam War photos were on TV
Every night, we saw such sadness.
Prom was a reminder...
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Categories:
garfunkel, 12th grade, memory, nostalgia,
Form:
Lyric
Translation of the Canticle: Scarborough Fair By T Wignesan
La Fête foraine de Scarborough
For the anonymous medieval poet
and Simon & Garfunkel - in admiration
...
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Categories:
garfunkel, lost love, love, remember, song, voice,
Form:
Quatrain
Music Memories
Music Memories
I am flipping through my LP’s and forty-fives. Long ago memories captured for posterity. I look at the cover art, lost in today’s digital world. As I go through them, I think of the...
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Categories:
garfunkel, music,
Form:
List
Are You Dreaming of Winning a Race?
Are You Dreaming of Winning a Race?
(After "Scarborough Fair" by Simon and Garfunkle)
Are you dreaming of winning a race,
Harley, Sym, Suzuki, Triumph!
Find sweet success when you win the great chase.
You once flew like the wind...
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Categories:
garfunkel, adventure, on work and workingsweet, success, sweet,
Form:
Free verse
Time Flies
thick hair, no hair, wow
young man, then older man now ...
it snuck up on us
3/18/2023
Poetry form: Senryu
Photo credits: Billion Photos via Canva Pro
At times like this, I'm drawn to the lyrics of "A Hazy...
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Categories:
garfunkel, age, change, hair, life, old, time, youth,
Form:
Senryu
Swim
I watch a golden sun slowly rise above the eastern sea and my thoughts naturally drift to her. I wonder what she is doing, and if she ever dreams of ...
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Categories:
garfunkel, confusion, desire,
Form:
Haibun
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:
garfunkel, me, music, nostalgia,
Form:
Abecedarian
Songs of a Real America
I read the news today oh boy( beatles a day in the life))
about America from across the sea
bridge over troubles waters (Simon & Garfunkel)
but it never use to be
was always ‘a wonderful...
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Categories:
garfunkel, america,
Form:
Free verse
Visions Creeping - Sos
In the ocean of my sleep stars glow like fragile seeds
and I sail across the celestial tranquil black sky
where silence is hanging sublime
and I fall through this dark warm dream
my hair a flowing river
and I...
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Categories:
garfunkel, dream,
Form:
Free verse
The Cat Lassie and the Potter Sometimes In a Frock
In a loose constrict
In what I am doing here
It occurs to me
A commonality
Between a Cat Lassie
And a Potter sometimes in a Frock.
It must be understood
The different characteristics
Of admire, aspire and inspire.
The inventor of...
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Categories:
garfunkel, art, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
Bridge of Friendship
If I've failed to make it clear before, perhaps you've never known
you'll share my shoulder in your storm, I'll lean against yours, too
I should have told you long ago, or did you always know?
A harbor's...
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Categories:
garfunkel, friend, friendship,
Form:
Free verse
White Noise
He’s ambling toward me and his lips move
I pick up my pace, the distance to remove
Moving ever closer, still can’t hear his voice
So much seems distorted in a world of white noise
Bikers trek loudly o’er...
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Categories:
garfunkel, confusionwords,
Form:
Couplet
Copter Over My Roof
Song, Copter Over My Roof, to be sung to the tune
of 'Bridge Over Troubled Waters', Simon And Garfunkel
I see eeriness ...
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Categories:
garfunkel, courage, encouraging, song,
Form:
Lyric
My Snores Are Violent
Read to the tune ("The Sounds of Silence") by Simon & Garfunkel
Hello nighttime my old friend, the sun is setting once again
Because the darkness is slowly creeping
I start to snore and the wife is steaming
I...
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Categories:
garfunkel, anger, dark, night, sleep,
Form:
Lyric
My Little Town--- Simon and Garfunkel Tribute
My little town is surrounded with green.
The sound of silence shines through the trees' windows.
Our grass grows higher than a trampoline.
Moss patterns bring laughter between streets' shadows.
The sound of silence shines through the trees' windows.
A...
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Categories:
garfunkel, beauty, green, home, nature, old, perspective, tribute,
Form:
Pantoum
Finding My Way
Hello darkness, my old friend
Just when my heart is on the mend
I realize I’ve built walls
And no one listens to my calls
When times get rough
And friends just can’t be found
Walls close in, I’ve had enough
I...
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Categories:
garfunkel, faith, introspection, old, old,
Form:
Lyric