Big Sandy: Recollection in the Free State
The hollow remains unphotographed.
Memory, not landscape, frames it—
a road cleaving winter in two,
children laughing while gravity
negotiated its own terms.
Neighbors spoke without flourish.
Their kindness was practical,
never advertised, always assumed.
You could leave your grief
on the porch overnight;
someone would tuck it in
and leave bread beside it
by morning.
Coal knew every surname
but never asked for praise.
It shaped the valley,
not into
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Categories:
sandy, childhood, community, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Maddy Prior, Sandy Denny, and Jacqui McShee
I live in hell, because I was given a choice,
who ever on earth had the sweetest voice -
Maddy Prior, Sandy Denny, or Jacqui McShee?
The demons rejoice
as in hell, I am bound to forever dangle
deciding,
Steeleye Span, Fairport Convention or Pentangle?
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Categories:
sandy, music, silly,
Form: Rhyme
SANDY MEETS TINKER BELL
Oh, what a crisp, beautiful morning,
Surely this will be a wonderful day,
For every cloud that we will see
On our way, I’ll wish for a silver lining,
Designed just for you and me.
Adventure was nearing, I felt it in my bones,
I want Sandy to have an unforgettable day,
Hey Sandy, did you see that Unicorn,
It was white
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Categories:
sandy, fantasy,
Form: Quintain (English)
Sandy Promises
On a warm spring afternoon by the shore,
I sculpt your image in the golden sands,
Each curve and line shaped with love,
Our promises etched in fragile strands.
But the restless tide sweeps in too soon,
Washing away what we swore to keep,
Like whispers lost upon the wind,
Or fleeting dreams that fade
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Categories:
sandy, beach,
Form: Rhyme
Sandy Hook
Tell the Moms it didn't happen
Tell the Dads it isn't so
Pretty little roses blooming
In the garden – row on row –
Pretty little blossoms folding
Petals falling to the floor
Falling into angels rising
Sprouting wings on which to soar
Smite the gunman at the trigger!
Seize the madman at the gun!
Little
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Categories:
sandy, children, death, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Like A Bone Beach - 2012
The highlights of the Jersey Shore
like a bone beach, they were no more
along with the loved Ferris Wheel
that kids looked forward to with zeal.
The sounds of music, loud and clear
along the boardwalk, all would hear,
and to the Wheel, the kids would run;
for generations-
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Categories:
sandy, beach, emotions, nostalgia, storm,
Form: Couplet
Sandy
Do you remember that young guy called Sandy, the lad who was always predicting the future? Joe said he died a couple of days ago. The guys were joking, he didn’t predict that.
The guys would be wrong then.
What do you mean?
I met Sandy a couple of months ago when I was visiting Mum.
The guys did
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Categories:
sandy, birth, death, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Sandy the Sandman - Frosty the Snowman parody
Sandy the Sandman.
Was a super duper dude.
With a surfboard pack and a seashell nose
and two eyes made out of food.
Sandy the Sandman.
Would always love to play.
He was made of sand,
but the lifeguards know
how he came to life one day.
There must have been some magic
in those swimming trunks they found,
for when they placed them on his
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Categories:
sandy, fun, parody,
Form: Lyric
Sandy
Blasting through the night
Blaze to morn
"Hey there Thunderhead!
Where you going with that storm?"
"To crazy eights!
And jesters wild
I’ll just be gone a while
Or more"
A frenzy in her mind
Fixed rage to rhyme
Don’t waste my time!
She says for hours
Words twirl through
The curly wire
There was wreck down deep inside
Beyond the bounds of mercy
Well lay down Sandy. Lay down
'Cause more
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Categories:
sandy, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme
Sandy Beaches - a Parody
I'm dreaming of the sandy beaches
Just like the ones I’ve seen before,
Where the surf is rising,
With lovers surmising,
While kayakers skim along the shore.
I’m dreaming of the sandy beaches
With every poem today I write
Hoping you have good weather up here
If I think of you,
I’ll shout a quick “Good night!”
[Repeat]
I'm dreaming of those sandy beaches
With every poem
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Categories:
sandy, beach, christmas, parody,
Form: Lyric
We Claim Sandy As Ours
Olivia Newton John was never ours to claim, and yet we did.
Because she became ours when she starred in our musical, Grease
An all American film, so it made sense to us. Sandy, girl next door.
The whole cast was magic; this black-leathered jacket teen musical.
Reminding us of West Side Story, but less ethnic.
All-American, which is
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Categories:
sandy, america,
Form: Free verse
A Sandy Note 2
Pedestal whowho
I savor your uplifitngs
You melt my plastic heart
We pass in beats together
Endless love
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Categories:
sandy, adventure, appreciation, emotions, love,
Form: Free verse
Sandy Avenue
Heartbreak hotel
Feelings unobliged
Fortuitous flailings
Unbridled undertones
Benign beginnings
Stalwart sensations
One step forward
Conscious awareness
Forgotten sublimes
New roads reclaimed
A better man arises
Love roads renewed
Composite bliss blessings
Ready and waiting
Summer bossa brewed
Finder's keepers.
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Categories:
sandy, appreciation, divorce, girlfriend, identity,
Form: Free verse
Wildflowers and White Sandy Beaches
Wandering,
through fields of wild flowers,
getting lost for hours
and hours.
Walking through woods of wonder,
taking in the beauty of the skies
and the ground under
my feet.
Standing under clouds wispy and white,
basking in the sunlight,
in green grass I lay,
caught up in the moment
here I'll stay.
The long grass sways back and forth,
the wind blows in from the north.
The smell of
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Categories:
sandy, flower, nature,
Form: Rhyme
A Lost Candy Is Handy
Now, you see your mislaid candy,
Still your very property and handy.
So, don’t words with your sister bandy
Nor repeat that her hair is sandy:
You might be saying she was The Thief,
Recklessly priming her for noisy grief;
For that’s what ‘Sandy’ supplies in brief
Whilst no daughter thief is fathered by a chief …
And-Alas!-you let candy your
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Categories:
sandy, conflict, confusion, crush, food,
Form: Rhyme
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