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 th...
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Categories:
mclean, music,
Form: List
The Fan
...My early morning post relates to the powerful emotions icons emit, when they leave us, forever in the physical sense.
Did the passing of an icon leave an impression on you?
Salute.
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Categories:
mclean, music,
Form: Rhyme
Long After Our Canoes
...Our
Hawaiian Sun
got burned
yesterday
and cried all
night ...
usually day after
our tradewinds turns and ...
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Categories:
mclean, allusion, analogy, culture, cute,
Form: Personification
Shadowed Hills and Starry Skies
...A composition on canvas; lyrics written for a song
Tortured was a soul asking, "Where do I belong?"
Daunted with a fragile mind but never was he blind
to being rejected although his love for h...
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Categories:
mclean, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
To Emmanuel 'Mclean' James
...I still sit upon the window looking on
Into nothingness and void all forlorn
I can't begin to even try to believe
That i won't ever hear you sing or jive
Everything that shone with your exquisite...
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Categories:
mclean, death of a friend,
Form: Rhyme
Paint of Van Gogh
...From a faded green life,
the yellow dream sprouted...
As in Van Gogh... !
PS suggested song Vincent
sung BY Don Mclean
https://youtu.be/oxHnRfhD...
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Categories:
mclean, allegory, allusion, creation, imagery,
Form: Light Verse
'and I Love You So' Parody
...I WISH I'D LEARNED TO SEW
I wish I’d learned to sew
My mother asks me how
How I’ve survived till now…
I tell her I don’t know
I’m feeling so forlorn
My socks got old and ...
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Categories:
mclean, clothes, how i feel,
Form: Lyric
On Don Mclean's American Pie
...American Pie surely proves
that Don Mclean was deeply moved
by death in an Iowan snow
of three great artists in a show
by everything that was so changed
Americana rearranged
speaking for his g...
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Categories:
mclean, change, song, truth,
Form: Couplet
The Death of Innocence
...Raised by wormy flesh from the ravages of war
Broken years of struggle rose from ashes
seeking justice
Singers sung in joyous tones
Artists guiding frustrated youth
to find new worlds, new cult...
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Categories:
mclean, bereavement, conflict, culture,
Form: Free verse
Hector
...Hector McLean.
Not Grandpa, nor Grandad or anything in between,
He was simply Uncle Hec to us, was dear old Hec Mclean.
The Western District, up Casterton way, from where he hailed,
And stories o...
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Categories:
mclean, childhood, memory, , western,
Form: Rhyme
Every Song Tells a Story
...I miss the feeling of going for a midnight drive, having the windows down, blaring our favourite song, three, two, one and it was all gone. We were defiantly driving with one headlight, but we both k...
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Categories:
mclean, best friend, change, girlfriend,
Form: Free verse
Vincent
...The following is a tribute to Vincent Van Gogh, the amazing artist who died of his own hand in 1890. He died, tragically alone, and in obvious pain, unrecognized and unappreciated by the people of hi...
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Categories:
mclean, beauty, dark, farewell, obituary,
Form: Elegy
Under Vincents Starry Night
...You sought to spread God’s holy word
But Vincent, your voice went unheard
To another passion you turned
In that fire, oh how you burned
The whirlwinds of your troubled mind
Were birthed onto your ...
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Categories:
mclean, tribute,
Form: Couplet
Stolen Life
...Once vibrant and cheerful
but now sombre and grey,
the room of beating hearts
has been tainted with pain
and needless misery.
A life once cherished and loved
silenced by the unpredictability
of the f...
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Categories:
mclean, life, loss, life, life,
Form: Free verse
Love Songs of the 1970s
...All of the then-loving couples have been listening to all of the love songs from the 1970s, including the year 1974. Love has been in the air for all of the people back in the 1970s since the day doo...
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Categories:
mclean, girlfriend-boyfriend, love, music, on
Form: Epic
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