Today, even the hills seem blue and other painful verses
...Today, even the hills seem blue.
Unhappiness is just happiness ~
being torn to shreds by you.
Bartleby: "I would prefer not to."
Lawyer: "But Bartleby, you...
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Categories:
prine, blue, heartbreak, how i
Form: Rhyme
JOHN'S MUSIC IN THE AIR
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Last night we attended a John Prine tribute concert…and I must confess
in the 72 years I’ve been alive…something must be wrong…
because although I was familiar with his name…
I was not familiar ...
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Categories:
prine, music,
Form: Rhyme
Acknowledgements
...1. John Desmond Patrick Keegan
2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
3. Sally Aline Mae Beller
4. Charles Edward A. Berry
5. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
6. Béla Ferenc Dezso Blaskó
7. Joh...
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Categories:
prine, appreciation, dedication, inspiration,
Form: List
Lazy Bones
...Hanging with the clothes, hanging on the line,
sunk down in a hammock listening to Prine.
I'm hiding from the mower under this tree,
with a cooler full of beer, as cold as can be.
There's a...
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Categories:
prine, work,
Form: Rhyme
Cold September Day
...The Scales of Justice didn't tip my way,
I figure from the dues I've had to pay.
While thumbing down to Shaky Town
I thought I turn my luck around,
At a drugstore in Salinas on a cold September...
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Categories:
prine, corruption, prison,
Form: Ballad
Prine Memories
...You know he’s still with you when the radio
plays one of his unforgotten songs
and next thing you know
you find yourself
singing along.
Rest in peace John, we know you were in heaven befo...
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Categories:
prine, eulogy,
Form: Free verse
Tribute To John Prine
...If you ask me why I rhyme
It’s inspired by John Prine
Heard that first album in seventy-one
only six and saw them having fun
Laughing, crying and singing along
knew the words to all his songs ...
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Categories:
prine, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Dear John
...Dear John letter
But it’s not. His name happens to be John.
Rather a letter of a hopeful heart anticipating the future
Have I finally found the one man who will be my intimate other? He who wi...
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Categories:
prine, absence, devotion, forgiveness, loss,
Form: Free verse
Branded
...if we could write a scarlet letter
in a world where there is no shame
and place it on a hester prine
just to shame her name
could we find another letter
to represent the womans scorn
and place the le...
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Categories:
prine, inspirational, introspection, life, world,
Form: Dramatic Verse