Long Raise the roof Poems

Let’s face facts you’re a motherloving no one
couldn’t find a flow if you were looking at the ocean 
I’ll stand and deliver like I’m living in a river
Your thoughts are all flops 
like the tap...

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You’ve reached a certain age when life has set you free
You can cock a hoop at protocol; do things that aren't PC
You can swim in just your underpants; be a gentleman or lout
Speak your mind...

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Today we sing 
great joy we bring
To those sweet souls 
words long forgotten

For just a while we take them 
to a peaceful magical place
          a place...

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NEW POEM

Today I stand alone
At a tall black microphone 
As I open up the show
To an audience I don’t know
Such an honour to be asked
reciting poetry from the past
Dedicated to sweet souls
whose words now long...

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___I'm glad you do___

I'm glad you feel me
I'm glad you free me
I'm glad you do help me
‘o sing again.
I'm glad you move it
I'm glad you roll it
I'm glad you do pop it
‘nd make me whole.

In...

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OLD POEM

WE RAISE THEM UP
Today we sing 
great joy we bring
To those sweet souls 
words long forgotten

For just a while we take them 
to a peaceful magical place
       ...

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Equality

My first memory of women’s football is Brandy Chastain 
	Taking her sports shirt off after she scored on the pitch
		Don’t know if she got a yellow card but had to google her name

The brazier underneath...

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Sometimes the thoughts I’m processing
Have me stressing
Like why do I do this
There’s no point in this writing
I should just stick to fighting 
And go back to acting so clueless
I should just take a breath 
And...

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so you gotta second chance to take part in the dance
 life is being busy making other plans you understand
 as a young child I would dream of far off places
 stuck in certain traces...

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When the day dwindles pale...with my tall mug of ale
I'm a weepy ole' fool , it is quite plain to see 
I'll  shed many a tear ore'  the wee smallest thing
I am known...

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When I was first around her I showed her true care
if you're scared to speak look at me I'm there
when you're outnumbered back you up we'll pair
I'll protect you from harm anytime anywhere

when she was...

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Death 

Hello my ugly friend
You hang around until the end 

I see you standing at the gate
Reluctantly you'll terminate 

When party goers leave the room
In you sweep, like deadly broom 

To clear away my loved...

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--Fly away.
We were compelled to believe that all men are created equal,
But they lied to our fore fathers and we are just the sequel.
You can turn back the page and gaze at what the truth...

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This poem will certainly be a big hit
I'm throwing everything I've got and more into it
All the bells all the whistles all my poetic tricks
Rolling up my sleeves, into my open palm I will spit

This...

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Cowboys wear their hearts on their sleeve
They sing in honky tonks and dive bars,
Drink their memories down, they spend their weekends in a bar where they can be themselves, wating to have their spirits glisten....

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6/2/21


Seeing many sides of the spectrum
While maintaining momentum
Close and far from species with venom
Hard to always find peace among constant bedlam

It began, continued on or ended
The outcome was splendid
Or not what was intended
Leaving so many...

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There is nothing chivalrous about a sniper.


In days of yore, when the rain did pour;
Inside an inn, they spoke of was and when.
Even then their present was defined by their history,
As they prepared to march...

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‘tis Sunday! Time for a revival.
It’s a celebration. Several days of praise
and charismatic speakers.
It is time for the bells
to be heard.
If we still walked the dusty streets
would excitement be at its peak?
Are the cars a...

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-Cheeky Little Nile Bugalugs-


I could fall on a turntable and raise the roof. Let the beat drop, but what’s the point scallywags?

Crickets chirp unwanted truths into my ears at night. Leaf the poor sauerkraut alone.

Saunter...

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What a picture this does bring
having reached this golden age
many decades has passed through
dance like one free from life's cage

Having lived and loved all this time
unbroken from many a storm
being forgiven so hold no grudges
raises...

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Ebony love songs, ebony fears
fashioned to survive the years,
soulful music laced with tears
cry of love as evening nears.

Rhythm of the indigo light
railroad melody of night
bluesy to survive the plight
soulful record of the fight

Lena Horne, the...

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5/6/17


Raise the roof
And keep speaking the truth

Raise the roof
And keep speaking the truth


Sayonara 
You are a
Goner
From here to yonder

The most potential ever seen
You could achieve
Anything if you believe
And follow through on your dreams

Below stained glass...

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Dare to dazzle, iconic diva

Behold an era, enrapture enthral

Silence devour, of vocal power

Renowned rendition – a rising star

Raise the bar, raise the roof

Glistening shimmer, strike a chord

Stage of a songstress, talent transformed

Driven determined, of diamonds...

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 "Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces"
                         ...

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The genuisness exited
Leave it cuz
Numbers don't add
Due to no money
Joshing you
Judges raise the roof
Two Sams are kinged not knighted
Our chronicles erased
Nah me high
East of here is the job
Palms are crossed
Always liked verbs
Eccles cakes are tasted
The...

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