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Premium Member Newport 1965
Newport 1965 (Or Dylan Goes Electric) This was the dream concert folk was at its peak Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Odetta, Peter, Paul and Mary Bill Monroe, Johnny Cash, Gordon Lightfoot, Ian and Sylvia But the prize, the dream was to see Dylan play Blowin’ In the Wind acoustically. The folkie purists were shocked, the dream had died. Dylan played Maggie’s Farm with an electric guitar and their world...

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Categories: newport, music,
Form: Free verse
Jacky the Blue Dreamer
Jack-y Jack-y Ohhhh Ms Jacky how you court your life’s only lover Huff and puff and contort, the smoke of your Newfound Newport (Long not short) Lazily lacking worldly desires If I had your sense of humour Maybe I'd too sling new places With every shot of tobacco, being Flung into faraway lands, filled gilded glands That aren’t quite backed enough of...

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Categories: newport, appreciation, best friend, black
Form: Free verse



The Bermuda Race
The Bermuda Race Don't sail the Rum Line lads To that beautiful isle is quite bad. 600 miles heading just South South East Is not the way to tame the beast. A straight course sailors say: "You can't win that way." Newport to "The Onion Patch" the saying goes Is a milk run but depends how the wind blows. The Gulf Stream is always...

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Categories: newport, june, ocean, race, sea,
Form: Rhyme
1673 Newport Murder Trial
1673 Newport Murder Trial One of my great grandfathers in my family tree Was accused of murder in 1673. His name was Thomas Cornell And they said he killed his mother Rebecca and sent her to hell. She was found dead near the fireplace on her bedroom floor While Thomas and his family were dinning in the main room behind...

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Categories: newport, anger, death, funeral, grandfather,
Form: Rhyme
1956 Newport To Bermuda Race
1956 Newport to Bermuda Race In June, 89 sailboats at midday Left Newport and Narragansett Bay. We're on the way in a 635 mile race To Bermuda - a beautiful place. Light winds on the first day out Even sighted a large whale spout. Next morning at day light No other boats in sight. As there were none we could find. Are we ahead or...

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Categories: newport, boat, night, race, scary,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Newport At Night
City lights sparkling, mirrored in the Bay, multi-colored jewels— amber, rose, and green, crystal, diamond-white— gracing bridge and buildings— mansions, pubs, and shops— fanciful reflections of countless points of intrigue. Neurons, lives entwining— schemes, ideas, and passions— complex as a motherboard, vibrant as a heartbeat, fertile and entrancing, as though fashioned by a cosmic magician’s spell....

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Categories: newport, city, culture, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Newport, Ohio
newport, ohio two bars for the thirsty one catholic church for the sinners to be forgiven one gas station so us country folk don't run out of gas one big country concert in july up the road one 75 year old man who runs a quiet slaughter house a quaint little town on a busy state route...

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Categories: newport, home,
Form: Free verse
Bob Dylan Newport Folk Festival 1965
Newport Folk Festival 1965. Behind the mirror is where we all Tend to lurk, Suffering through the pain of glass. No one likes change, Sometimes it is almost viewed as a sin. Then you are punished For attaining a higher majesty, An alliance nearly gone. But the times they were a changing Folk had to realise, A new power was being born The climate just right...

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Categories: newport, musicmirror,
Form: Prose Poetry

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