Flared Pants, Mini Skirts and Mr Eliot
...
How like Eliot it is in tone.
Even the landscape has the grime
of London in each line. I must have been
no more than nineteen when I wrote
the poem caught in the spell of his hypnotic
rhythm...
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Categories:
reefers, nostalgia, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Fab Four Fiasco
...In this age of 'Instant Karma' happiness is turned away,
'All you need is love' to guide you well at least that's what they say,
'In my life' I've witnessed miracles the ghost of 'Yesterday',
When...
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Categories:
reefers, music,
Form: Rhyme
The End of Donna
...My first cousin Donna
now belongs to eternity
She went to live in England and Ireland
Married an Irishman and had two nice boys
She could not keep herself away
from the siren lure of drugs
Las...
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Categories:
reefers, death,
Form: Free verse
Ecstasy and Hell
...In the seventies, I had finished school,
entered my twenties, and was feeling cool.
And rock and roll rattled me to my bones,
from Led Zeppelin to the Rolling Stones.
Life felt good; I ...
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Categories:
reefers, emotions, feelings, how i
Form: Rhyme
Where Do We Come In
...Where do we come in
in medias res not knowing nor caring when
doesn’t everybody pine being number one we leave behind our lives in pages pictures or else make for images of what we saw d...
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Categories:
reefers, caregiving, character, humanity, leadership,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Howard Marks, a Clerihew
...So, farewell, Howard, Mr Nice
Massive reefers were your vice
Life’s but a spliff to puff and pass
All grass is weed, all flesh is grass
by Gail...
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Categories:
reefers, addiction, celebrity, death, eulogy,
Form: Clerihew
Jimmy Buffet-Coral Reefers
...10,000 people gathered on the beach that day
as he entered the stage wearing sandals he'd say,
"WOW! look at YOU come to lend a hand"
Then he grabbed his guitar to strike up his band
Ten th...
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Categories:
reefers, thank you,
Form: Rhyme
Read All About It
...READ ALL ABOUT IT
Stories all of 100
years old
Bribery And
Blackmail
They have to be
retold
Definitions of words
have surely changed
as Kilts And Reefers
are now explained.
Two Kin...
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Categories:
reefers, adventure, places, social, success,
Form: ABC
Pulp
...Pretty soon, night will fall upon the city,
And lives of crime animate spasmodically
As Gene Pitney croons “A Town Without Pity”
And the clubs and the gin joints open methodically.
Hepcat jazzm...
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Categories:
reefers, allegory, death, history, life,
Form: Rhyme