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Music Hall Poems - Poems about Music Hall

Pushing Dead Daisies
... The skin remembers, even when the mind tries to forget Scars etched deeper than bone, a roadmap of agony They say time heals all wounds, they lie Time only buries them deeper under the layer o......

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Categories: music hall, dark, death, deep, life,
Form: Free verse
enduring memory
...enduring memory  It was in New York on the pavement outside Radio City Music Hall I saw Jack Dempsey and Alan Ladd I had not seen a famous people before Jack wore brown pants a loud sport......

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Categories: music hall, absence, age, child,
Form: Free verse



we who loved America
...We Who Loved America (first part) It was a humid August evening in 1958 when the cargo ship I served as a galley helper docked in NEW York I was mesmerized by the tall buildings the tallest bu......

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Categories: music hall, absence, addiction, april, birthday,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Obsessed
...Obsessed Hours and hours practising “Practice makes perfect!” Others have described Antonio’s playing as perfect. He has played in spectacular locations. Even before Kings and Queens. One day ......

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Categories: music hall, appreciation, art, creation, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Gordon Lightfoot Inspiration
...Gordon Lightfoot was born on Nov. 17, 1938, in Orillia, Ca. His first concert at Massey Hall in Toronto, encouraged by his parents, He won a contest for boys with unmodified voices prio......

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Categories: music hall, analogy, appreciation, celebrity, history,
Form: Bio



My Two Wagging Tails
...I love you when your quiet I love you like this Chilled and laid back Peace at long last I love you when your playing I love you wrestling too Pulling on a sock A tug of war is cool ......

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Categories: music hall, best friend, cancer, cat,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Clerihew Sickert
...Walter Richard Sickert with down-to-earth & in the dirt Unobtrusive obervations was his call of cheap interiors &music hall......

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Categories: music hall, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Clerihew Sickert
...Walter Richard Sickert on the edge of Impressionism did skirt He loved the intimacy of the music hall always his first port of call......

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Categories: music hall, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
A Boxer and An Actor
...The boxer and the actor I saw them on the sidewalk near The Radio music Hall in New York, Jack was telling Alan a joke Jack Dempsey wore a sport’s jacket, brown trousers a white shirt’s open, ......

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Categories: music hall, america, blessing, color, confidence,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member You'Re Beautiful, Oh Yes You Are
...You're Beautiful, oh Yes You Are (to be sung to the tune of "I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am" -a 1910 British music hall song by Fred Murray and R. P. Weston and Signature song of the music hall star......

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Categories: music hall, song,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Leona
...An old friend died today. I lift my head and look back, Down the long fabric of my past. I remember us at a party – We partied a lot in those “Salad days” of our youth! At one another’s home......

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Categories: music hall, appreciation, death of a
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rockette Dancer-New York-Image
...                       ~*~*~*~ A ROCKETTE Of course, I always wanted to be. With tanned long legs, so heavenly. ......

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Categories: music hall, dance, dream, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Party of All Parties
...We sat in clusters, on couches, giggling at the antics of the wild ones, the PP’s. Aka popular peers, who were dancing with self confidence that oozed into the walls. The PP’s were gyrating to folk......

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Categories: music hall, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Great Aunt
...Your parents gave me the news at Wilton's Music Hall a place of joy and drunkenness Laurel and Hardy, Hetty King, Marie Lloyd and now A Great Aunt. A figure of jest, jeers and laughter what fun,......

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Categories: music hall, baby, family,
Form: Free verse
The Less Edifying Second Verse
...I 'She's only a bird in a gilded cage,' so a well-known song has once told. She married a man well advanced in years for the sake of his riches and gold. ......

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Categories: music hall, allusion, corruption, irony,
Form: Burlesque

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