Can't Stop Rocking
Look out on the music these days,
there ain’t a whole lot to say,
techno makes me feel dead inside,
dub-step, just get out of my way.
Hip-hop just rubs me all wrong,
that stuff is barely a song,
maybe there are some gems in there,
most of it’s just here and gone.
Can’t stop rocking,
the six-string talking,
the base-line walking,
the kick-drum knocking,
can’t stop
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on a roll to be, appreciation, celebration, fun, how
Form: Rhyme
The Sound of a Jelly Roll
Sitting on a napkin or plate,
they cause my two eyes to dilate,
and there the silent ringing sound,
the sweetest not heard, the world round.
Can you hear, as angel bells toll
the chiming tones of a jelly roll?
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Categories:
on a roll to be, food, music, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Pau - Old School Cool
Old School Cool (c) 2025 by the Entangled Pair
She's hot, yes, but she's also cool
she is a gem, she is a jewel
I think she's great (and I'm no fool)
she beats those drums like she's old school
she pounds those skins, sometimes it's funny
she hits them like they owe her money
and one thing more I'll tell you
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Categories:
on a roll to be, cool, how i feel,
Form: Couplet
Roll in the Hay
A randy, young couple out by the bay
decided to have a roll in the hay.
She pondered, in the moonlight,
"Aren't the stars pretty tonight?",
and he chuckled "I'm in no place to say!"
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Categories:
on a roll to be, funny love,
Form: Limerick
Music
Classical is from the Middle Ages
in the mid-1940's we had Bebop
a fast-tempo 19th / 20th century Jazz
then along came Doo-wop
with group harmonies
the 50's brought us rock and roll
which developed the 1960's
(sad to say) Disco and its glitter ball
then psychedelic pop rock
blues and folk rock
and in the 1970's it was Hip-hop
and also Rap
which was misspelt
it should read
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on a roll to be, appreciation, music, word play,
Form: Rhyme
In the silence of the night, words roll like waves of time
In the silence of the night, words roll like waves of time,
She sees her face in every letter, as in an ancient mirror,
I don't need to watch her read, I know she feels the call,
Somewhere deep inside, she feels the weight of every whispered thought.
But she keeps her silence, as if unaware of the enchantment,
As
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Categories:
on a roll to be, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
When the Roll is Called up Yonder, We Will All Be There published by Eber and Wein
When Christ shall say,"Come up here," we shall be entering heaven's door.
What wondrous blessings shall be in store for me and all of the others who
Truly do believe in Christ's glorious victory. All because He is truly
Glorious, our home coming will be very marvelous Hallelujah!
When the roll is called up yonder on that great
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Categories:
on a roll to be, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
DRUM ROLL PLEASE
Steady beat
Orchestra plays
Trumpet sounds
A Soldier goes to war, but might not come back
Every sunrise and sunset
Every foot stepping march moving in courage
Every salute being an honor
Symbolic nature
Eye on individual military uniform
Thank you for your service
Echoes of War in sacrifice
The thought of devastation
Ashes that rise with a darkened shade
Front and center made by a Soldier
Purple Heart
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Categories:
on a roll to be, appreciation, care, character, courage,
Form: Free verse
Watching The Storm Roll In
I sit here on this wide, stone porch,
the farms stretch for many miles,
even on sunny days you can
sit here and drift for a while…
but this is not a day like that,
the far horizon tells the tale,
a billowing of distant gray,
the storm is coming, without fail.
The first slow pickup of wind comes,
scribes rippled patterns in the
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on a roll to be, imagery, nature, rain, sky,
Form: Rhyme
The years will pass, calendars will endlessly roll over the land of forgetting
The years will pass, calendars will endlessly roll over the land of forgetting,
But the moment I saw you, that moment suspended in the eternity of a gaze,
The flame of love kindled then will burn silently in the hidden corners of my heart,
Like a solitary lighthouse in the night, illuminating the secret paths of my soul.
Seasons
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Categories:
on a roll to be, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
on a roll to be, appreciation, dance, music,
Form: Rhyme
Bourbon Street Blues
Neon haze on cobblestone nights,
whispers ride on the southern moonlight.
Shadows dance in the lamplight’s gleam,
bourbon burns, but so do my dreams.
There's a preacher on the corner,
selling sinners one last prayer.
But the devil’s got a table,
and he’s pulling up a chair.
Oh, Bourbon Street, take my soul,
drown my sins in rock and roll.
Golden whiskey, lace and lies,
where
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Categories:
on a roll to be, culture, river,
Form: Lyric
Roll Tide
If in my beginnings I saw a photograph I saw that somethings was a mortal fact
A mortal sympathetic pack
My body sympathetic to instrumental tracks
In our relationship in our position within it
Where so relentless on the inside
My heart must beat , I didnt even have a heart
My wasnt cold my heart wasnt there
I brought my heart
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Categories:
on a roll to be, addiction, evil, family, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Buddy
Hopin' and flyin' high
Still somethin' was amiss,
Just you know why ...
It had to end like this
Not fade away a shining star
With three million records sold,
Yet, silent fell his guitar ...
And, glasses rest infold
A sound never to be heard
Soon after that final show,
Boy, give us a clue, a word
Maybe one day we'll know
What happened that
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Categories:
on a roll to be, celebrity, death, flying, guitar,
Form: Rhyme
ROLL AWAY BED ROLL OUT AND ON
Imagine sleeping on a roll away bed not holding steady
Overnight sleep ride
That’s what every roll away bed provides
It comes when a person turns over in twist and turn
The roll away Bed is not firm
It’s about move
You certainly wouldn’t be smooth nor soothe
You would find yourself somewhere all over the room
Travelling without ever getting up at
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Categories:
on a roll to be, adventure, america, anxiety, boy,
Form: Rhyme
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