Long Jimmie Poems
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Stevie Ray Vaughan Inspiration
Stevie Ray's guitar spurred the 1980s blues boom.
He wasn't like any other guitarist.
Inspired by Buddy Guy, Albert King, and Albert Collins...
He linked blues and rock in the late 1960s.
He ruled the American blues from 1983...
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Categories:
jimmie, analogy, appreciation, beauty, history, music,
Form:
Bio
Legendary Teacher and Student
Born in New England in the wake of the Civil War,
Her folks fled Irish famine and landed on our shore.
At age five, she took sick, losing almost all her sight.
At eight,...
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Categories:
jimmie, education, hero, inspirational, school, student, teacher, teachers
Form:
Rhyme
The letter on the fireplace
Do you like mysticism, anxiety, atmospheric rich imagery, layered within mythological meanings?
A bending of surrealism, personal confession, and fantastical imagery of obsession?
(A lone voice whispers)
As if cursed by the son of perdition
As I go about...
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Categories:
jimmie, gothic,
Form:
Rhyme
A Tribute To Merle Haggard 1937-2016
The first thing I remember hearing
Was a car radio with a country song playing
A man singing while my mom was steering
A song about heartache and pain
That’s the day the good boy in me...
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Categories:
jimmie, appreciation, career, death, dedication, hero, memory, satire,
Form:
Rhyme
Jimmie Christmas Gifts
December 24, 2015
There was a boy called Jimmie who was writing his letter to Santa Claus. The list of the gifts was very lengthy. It included a control remote car, a baseball bat, clothes and...
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Categories:
jimmie, christmas,
Form:
Free verse
Escapism
Foundation.
If you could escape this world, would you take that risk?
Escapism
As if cursed by the son of perdition
As I go about my new life's mission to gain admission to her realm
With Aphrodite's dead ringer...
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Categories:
jimmie, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
My Thoughts Are Not With You
Dear Jimmie, where ever you are,
I want you to know that I do fail to notice you by far.
You ill-treated me to no end when no one was there,
Around my mother or anyone you would...
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Categories:
jimmie, death, mother, son, god, me, family, family,
Form:
Bio
Not On the Menu
Not On The Menu
Sister girl don’t judge the brothers at
The zip mart with oily stained jeans
And dirty fingernails, judging him not clean
Turning your head,
Sighing with dread
Thinking he got a nerve to look your way.
It...
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Categories:
jimmie, appreciation, boyfriend, humor,
Form:
Light 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:
jimmie, love, memorial, mother son,
Form:
Narrative
Play Ball
I have attempted to capture my favorite major league baseball players in this little shape poem of home plate. Included are (in no particular order):
Say Hey Willie Mays ...
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Categories:
jimmie, baseball,
Form:
Shape
My Little Feet
All of a sudden (upon
immediately arising refreshed,
whar these lovely
bones did not ache
getting shut eye lasting
amply...
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Categories:
jimmie, 12th grade, 9th grade, happiness, hello, men,
Form:
Free verse
Blue Moon Christmas
Jimmie’s dad was bent and wise, a man that life had rode by—
But Jim still recalled his words when he would laugh and half cry:
“Life’s a fragile balance between honor and what’s true—
A rare, livin’...
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Categories:
jimmie, angst, confusion, cowboy-western, faith, hope, dad, wife,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
My Ancestors Blood
My first amendment right was never fought for overseas! It was Martin Luther King who was beat to his knees! It was Fanne Lou Hamer who gave me permission to speak! It was a war...
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Categories:
jimmie, africa, america, black african american, discrimination, military,
Form:
I do not know?
Sometimes
Sometimes a song can take me back
Make my memories come alive
To a time when love was a way of life
And families struggled to survive
Sometimes I get a little mellow
When I listen to an old love...
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Categories:
jimmie, music, nostalgialove, me,
Form:
Narrative
Pete Barnhill-My Tribute
Note
Pete Barnhill was befriended by the late great Johnny Cash.Both were around 13 years of age at the time.Pete learned Johnny his very first chords on the guitar.The rest is history......
PETE BARNHILL - MY TRIBUTE
Pete...
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Categories:
jimmie, health, old, old,
Form:
Rhyme
Before Selma
Before “The March on Selma”, before it all began
James Orange was arrested; he was a giant of a man
It was Rumored they would lynch him
So the church gathered and they prayed
But once outside the temple,...
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Categories:
jimmie, black african american, celebration, hurt, world,
Form:
Prose Poetry
If a Christmas Tree Could See
I can see you Bobby sneaking a look
No, your mother did not buy you a book
Tony and Jimmie have come to see
Bobby gazing at me
My lights are bright so Santa can see
Where to put the...
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Categories:
jimmie, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
Influences 2 American Dreams
It was old Woody that lured me with
Dust Bowl Ballads and so much more
Telling stories of a West
That I'd never heard before.
I was with the Okies as
They travelled down the road
Got a new...
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Categories:
jimmie, america, dream, growing up, inspiration, music,
Form:
Rhyme
Where Am I From?
See if you can guess where I am from
Add all the clues up and total your sum
Here there are many trees and lush, green grass
Honeysuckles, crepe myrtle, and summers that last and...
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Categories:
jimmie, places, may, , Lullaby,
Form:
Lyric
Adios To Ernest Tubb (02-09-14 To 09-06-84)
In Nashville, all those tourists visit Broadway every day;
They buy those Dolly Parton posters there;
But the record shop of Ernest Tubb won’t seem the same no more—
Sing “Adios” to Ernest Tubb—he used to walk that...
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Categories:
jimmie, history
Form:
Ballad
The Person
this goes to the person who made my day's brighter growing up as a child,
who made everything just right and not to mild, the person I looked up to, who
made me smile the times...
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Categories:
jimmie, family, life, love, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Old Records
Listening
As grooves whirl
A familiar track,
Once familiar refrains
Recall the vintage
Of innocence.
Scratched
In almost forgotten places,
The sound is altered ...
Yet I hear a cadence of the time
When sweet flowers grew
In an English country garden.
Inspired by a folk song...
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Categories:
jimmie, growing up, music,
Form:
Free verse
Jimmie
THE FIRST TIME I SAW YOU JIMMIE. MY HEART FELT SO MUCH LOVE AND WARMTH. YOU ARE MY FIRST SUMMER LOVE, FALL LOVE, WINTER LOVE AND SPRING LOVE. MY HEART FALLS LIKE THE PETALS OFF...
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Categories:
jimmie, i love you, imagination, loneliness, love, lust,
Form:
Bio
Classic Reel
in the 1940s many movie comedies dealt with heaven
hell, reincarnation, the devil, angels, body snatching
I get a channel called Classic Reel with my Roku
The movies shown are from the 30’s, 40’s, 50’s and 60’s
I saw...
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Categories:
jimmie, nostalgia,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Somewhere Tonight
Somewhere tonight
Somewhere tonight they will sing from the heaven above.
Playing the music of the great for all to hear.
Good old Hank will sing your cheating heart he is so lonesome he could cry.
Patty Page she...
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Categories:
jimmie, blessing, death of a friend, music,
Form:
Free verse