Redding Poems - Poems about Redding

...I was sitting on the dock of the bay listening to a song when Otis Redding happened to come walking along. He said, "You watching the ships roll in?" I said, "Yeah, and then watching ‘em roll away......

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...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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...On Interstate 5 In A Greyhound Bus mother pauline boards the big greyhound double decker her freckled son goes before her wearing a cub scout cap hurry up she says as they climb the stairs to t......

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... Glenn Campbell sang of Wichita Trini Lopez of Kansas City Otis Redding crooned of Sausalito, CA Sittin’ on the dock of a bay Chicago was Sinatra’s kind o......

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...~ A beauty from Redding, alone on a hillside, where dreams play viola and wishes agree Hair spun of moonbeams. as eyes tend to wander. while sharing the shade of a sycamore tr......

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... "When I was a kid my dad left me in a bad way .... he was in the lives of my sisters and brothers but he wasn't in mine." Quote ......

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...“I’m just sitting on the dock of the bay, wastin’ time.” Otis Redding Don’t quit your daydream, son. You’re just so good at it. Each day we watch you go down to the dock and sit. Your frien......

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...Mr. Prim provoked shame, guilt, and fear In every heart, mind, and soul of Redding Pointing his long, boney finger at whoever was near Screaming out sinner, to hell you are heading! Mr. Prim we......

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...I've always been a mellow type of fellow Laidback like dem seats in that Cadillac Yeah! Real chill like that sleek '73 Deville Even as a little boy the jukebox was my toy Sweet rhythms of lif......

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...I cannot read small labels, my eyes don’t see so well The labels on my spices: a culinary hell. I came up with a system; it’s pretty hard to beat, ‘Cuz most of what I cooked before was not so go......

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...What sad fate does all of these celebrities likely have in common? Aaliyah Aaron Hernandez Abraham Lincoln Amy Winehouse Anna Nicole Smith Bob Marley Brandon Lee Brittany Murphy Bruce Lee ......

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...What We Need (RESPECT) By Franklin Price 06/24/2020 What we need in times of struggle Is a place we can connect We the people need to search for Common ground for some RESPECT Otis Redd......

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...AntiPoem 2 You know only one thing and that is: Dying is not on the agenda. Let us march now inside St. Mary’s, March reverently through these green repentant doors, These holy portals to gr......

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...October Visitation A peeking orange smear Talked to the lad inside his head, When he was eight and nine months, On a breezy October twilight in 1960, As the orange light told him silently, To......

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...Redding Poem 4 “Flying Down Interstate 5” We departed Redding at 3:45, In the dead of an October night. Those tumultuous streets were morgues then, As we raced to the deserted Interstate 5, ......

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