Sunset Sigh
...Sunset Sigh
pretend it was me and not you
in love. Cupid put down his arrows,
they were aimless, anyhow -
he sees that now. still,
there’s a beauty and a cutie
so Cupid deci...
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Categories:
rockers, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Rock in America
...Rock is still allowed,
Yong and old so proud,
Teen queens and studs,
Shocking olden fuds,
To old rockers, we wave,
From our youth, a fave,
Every age of yore,
Will blame those before,
No limit...
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Categories:
rockers, appreciation, encouraging, meaningful, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
The Same Window
...She sinks into her threadbare cushion
on the aged-old rocker she huddles in daily
placing her thin-skinned arms
cold to the touch upon the arm rail
darkened from the oil of her skin
Creaks and...
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Categories:
rockers, age, confusion, depression, fate,
Form: Free verse
The Holy Stretch
...His silhouette lines up with his preacher stretch.
He points with avid attention to the throne of God.
Though he stands, his skinny knees are bent.
He’s in the trenches with his armament.
The c...
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Categories:
rockers, christian,
Form: Ekphrasis
Mind From a Day Of
...Within my rockers,
That does rattle and battle off the horror towards the opposites of the beauties of life, that crosses the feat over standing well above the allowed thoughts of the ignorance hear...
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Categories:
rockers, age, anxiety, blue, hate,
Form: ABC
Smirk
...
Smirk
sweet, humorous
unsettling, fun-loving, revealing
Punk-rockers, Saints, Sharks, Jesters
enticing, manipulating, masking
sal...
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Categories:
rockers, emotions, feelings, smile,
Form: Diamante
Eric Clapton Inspiration
...Eric Clapton (born March 30, 1945, in Ripley, Surrey, England)
British guitarist who influenced rock.
Later became a famous singer-songwriter.
Clapton was born to a teen mom and a Cana...
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Categories:
rockers, analogy, appreciation, celebrity, history,
Form: Bio
Norman Crocker
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norman rockers
no feet wasted
hai chairs with short arcs
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H/T to Milt Hankins' Crockers...
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Categories:
rockers, silly, word play,
Form: Senryu
27 Club Rockers
...Twenty-seven years of struggle and success
Was all many of our best rockers could take,
We give them a tip of the hat, for their sake
They entertained us even when in distress.
Dopi...
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Categories:
rockers, dark, death, memory, music,
Form: Quatrain
A Civil War Battleground
...the field is given a name
battles are about where they disappear
the ones that walk away
don't know where the hell they are
after the mayhem
peace continues des...
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Categories:
rockers, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Civil War Battlefield
...the field is given a name
battles are about where they disappear
the ones that walk away
don't know where the hell they are
after the mayhem
peace continues des...
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Categories:
rockers, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Blue Streak
...BLUE STREAK
Hair dyed red with a streak of blue.
The sort of thing punk rockers do,
Not something I’d expect of you.
I wonder what possessed you to.
You say it’s time for past...
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Categories:
rockers, color,
Form: Rhyme
Still Recording 2020
...shadows of buddy
two rockers from the old school
marvin plays holly
© Harry J Horsman 2021...
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Categories:
rockers, music,
Form: Senryu
Little White House
...Anybody on this road we're on
Ain't nobody wants to be alone
Everybody's trying to make it home
To somebody
Sunflower, we're not in Kansas now
It's a new life down in Alabama
God gave us a litt...
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Categories:
rockers, house,
Form: Lyric
Bergfried
...I. The Settlement
Hickory bark bluffs
at the blend of two
rivers.
Gasconade waters buttered
with the muddy Missouri.
A lookout...
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Categories:
rockers, adventure, allusion, metaphor, myth,
Form: Narrative
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