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Rock Steady Poems - Poems about Rock Steady

Premium MemberMILES AND POLLOCK

...The smoky clubs of thought/ where shadows dance and poets talk of truth whispered low/man, a story without end/ can you dig it, my friend/ improvisation’s the key, always unlocked in time, a jazz rif...
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Categories: rock steady, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word

Rock Steady

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He played a rock steady beat,
That rumbled as a train on its tracks.
The echoes rebellious stark.
Moving the nicotine in the chest.
Siphoning joy from the very air.
Distilling it down to a sou...
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Categories: rock steady, music,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberAutumn Breeze the Summer Heat

...The smell of the Autumn breeze is amorous cleansing the air again of the hot summer months ordered duty to Autumn breeze and a story and a love feeling waving hello Making one wave of energy that wav...
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Categories: rock steady, angel, appreciation, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberBalloons

...Awesome absolute of childhood exaltation - 
Balloons embed dear youthful memories within. 
Fascinating, joyful, colourful inflation, 
Promise rock steady future on a thread, so thin. 
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Categories: rock steady, childhood, children, emotions, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme

Jive Season Nursery Rhyme

...You know the Old Lady who lived in a shoe,
She led the Autumn Jive with Little Boy Blue,
DJ Peter Piper looked suave and dapper,
The Old Grand Duke of York, *MC and rapper

The Trees of the fore...
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Categories: rock steady, autumn, dance, humor, seasons,
Form: Rhyme



Forever and a Day

...I thought we were,
The perfect pair.
  I thought we had it,
Special and rare.

  I remember our talks,
Going to the bay.
  Side by side,
We always met halfway.

  If you leave, I surely
Wo...
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Categories: rock steady, heartbreak, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPerfectly Formed

...Perfectly formed in a challenging terrain,
low and squat they lie and ever ready
to shrug off Hebridean wind and rain,
with weathered roofs and walls rock steady.
In days of yore, a refuge from t...
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Categories: rock steady, home,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMad Molly Shaw

...This is the story of mad Molly Shaw
She might be mad now but she wasn’t before
she came home to find her man dead on the floor
She lay down her bible and let out a roar 

She walked into town wi...
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Categories: rock steady, western,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPerfectly Formed

...Perfectly formed in a challenging terrain,
low and squat they lie and ever-ready
to shrug off Hebridean wind and rain
with weathered roofs and walls rock-steady.
In days of yore, a refuge from th...
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Categories: rock steady, change, weather,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTough Times

...When the mountain looked insurmountable
Your uncompromising stance made it assailable

When situations looked so scary and bleak
Your raw determination hauled us towards the peak

When the road...
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Categories: rock steady, allusion, character, devotion, endurance,
Form: Rhyme

Wipe the Memory

...I’m an addict
In recovery 
And I’m kind of glad of it
I don’t want to be
Just another G
Out promoting weed
While I’m planting the idea 
Like a G-13 seed

Read between the lines
And you’ll f...
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Categories: rock steady, addiction, anxiety, appreciation, art,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberA Dedication To He That This Old Poet Truly Admires

...A Dedication To He That This Old Poet Truly Admires

Hardened was his sad heart when a mere lad-
 Never a kind word, all seemed very bad-
Born a true and strong athlete to behold
 Into slavery a...
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Categories: rock steady, appreciation, best friend, dedication,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAmazing Grace a Sparrow Died Today An Angel Unfolded Their Wings Sings

...Amazing Grace A Sparrow Died Today An Angel Unfolded Their Wings Sings   Aretha Louise Franklin  

A sparrow died today
An angel unfolded their wings
Break it to me gently young, gifted and black...
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Categories: rock steady, appreciation, bereavement, black african
Form: Free verse

The Builder

...The Builder


If it does not bite you at the end of each breath,
Then I will start again and again
And I will rewrite it, all over again.


Do it all again; pretend we are friends.
I never c...
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Categories: rock steady, friend, history, i love
Form: Bio

Feel Good Music

...Spreading peace, love and unity
From its roots in Jamaica
To each and every community.

This is reggae music —
The type of music that lifts your spirits,
The type of music that makes you want t...
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Categories: rock steady, celebration, happy, heart, how
Form: I do not know?

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