Long Guitar player Poems

Billboard named him the year finest blues musician. 
Joe Bonamassa is a blues-rock musician,
He was designed to be a famous musician.
His family owns a guitar store in upstate New York,
After years of practice, Bonamassa will...

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For mature readers…

I wonder if you think of me every single moment of every single day
Oh my, if only I wouldn’t doubt and wish you’d wash away my dismay
I desire your lovingkindness amongst my own...

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I was born in the waves of music
so long ago now 
when the music was faint.
barely audible almost silent.
I was a accident a beautiful one
but still an accident.
She was a concert pianist
he was a guitar...

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The lights stream out the tunnel,
The tube stops at the platform, 
Passengers interchange.

I wonder if the man in the suit,
Ever stopped to think about that guitar player,
The busker he never thought to spare a little...

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Another Tale Of Musical Madness...

It was in the early seventies...
My friend and rhythm guitar man,
Mark Trotiner, worked in a well
known musician store in NYC...
Another one of those so rare
"light up the room types"-
He played great...

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During a thunderstorm at the midnight hour 
 I wrote you a letter that I'll never send
 I wrote it when I was alone
 so unless I give it to you
 those words will always...

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Little Jenny was always found to be very prim and proper/
Outside reading her cook book by Betty Crocker/
Lazy Mary Sat on the lazy suzanne,
Butch Malone was their next of kin kissing cousin,
Along with Mary this...

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Of all the friends that I’ve known and lost
I reckon at times life will collect its cost

Sometimes the thought makes me sad
As I start thinking of the dreams we had

I know who was right and...

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On this brown, broken sofa
Here with my lonely guitar
Looking around in empty space
Orange is my only surroundings

Writing you songs about life
Or maybe about hopeful love
And even of my life's struggles
So many lyrics in my thoughts!

Out...

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*****This poem inspired me to show or make sentient as possible a woman of special appeal, which provided an apt challenge of my poetic Powers. Such words as 'countenance opulent' 'L'Amour and debonair' and the...

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Lead singer in a band, he also played the guitar.
Wasn’t long before he became a star.
He wrote songs that have poetic lyrics.
And often had his fans at concerts in hysterics.

He wore colorful clothes and wild...

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The Voyage 

The big seagull sat on the bow of my rowing boat 
                     ...

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the music is sweating in the room
strings and reeds bump and grind
slow-dragging dancers entwine
oh the fruit is ripe upon the vine
and the wine of love and laughter
a mingled vintage- joy and tears
now are drunk down...

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Whatever you want to do.
Whatever you want to be.
Whatever you want to go.
I’ll always stand by you.
You want to be a dancer.
You want to be a guitar player.
You want to be soccer player.
You want to...

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1.  Inevitability

The rain will come
and be rude.
The wind blow away
all quietude.
Erase it?

Debase it?
You have no power
and when it's
your hour, you'll 
go, you know.

2. Drowning 

My foot tapping time, O sweet,
he cannot know he echoes...

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Purple Haze
 A melody maker.
 First song, Hey Joe.
 A left handed guitar player.
 Started in Harlem.
 Played songs like Muddy Water.
 The greatest guitar player.
 Died at 27.
 Always played high volume.
 Another song...

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It's like wearing your heart on your sleeve.
My guitar,
is my own secret language.
When I play I can feel
all my worries
get faded out by
my sweet melodies.
My fingers are those of a guitar player
and I am proud.
The...

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Greasy hair under his baseball cap,
day-old stubble on his double chin,
he picks away on his Gibson guitar,
eyes half shut easing the guilt 
of leaving his family behind.

Miles of road ahead of him,
rain hits the windows...

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Pursue your dreams even when
Circumstance tells you no!
 It's not life that gets in our way
Or prevents us from going forward.
It's circumstance; it will put you down
And keep you there If you let it.
Understand life...

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I've got the lecture notes ready
I've got the examples 

Just blow what I'm telling you to blow
I am responsible for the resurgence of the sales of saxophones 

I unlock the doors of my car
By raising...

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I can hear the crowd clapping as you strum, 
transfixed you open another portal; 
With each note becoming more overcome 
easily you take a piece of their soul;

Every single person captivated;
Without uttering one melodic sound...

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Charlie approached the gig the same way he always did
Who is that cat? The guitar player asked. No one knew.
Want to do a train wreck? Pat, the singer, asked Charlie.
They hugged each other briefly. “My...

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Caribbean Night

Tropical night, starlit, if I recall rightly; there was 
sliver of a golden moon also. We drank beer too,
the sea is an enormous waste bin, plop, plop.
Someone brought guitar, nights like this ought to
have...

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