Banjo
if you want to bruise your ego
try to learn the 5-string banjo
I’m trying to learn Scruggs style
and it definitely is a real trial
three fingered right-handed rolls
is a complete shock to my soul
getting the timing down
so, I don’t sound like a clown
somewhere old Earl is having a laugh
at every time I make a gaffe
if ever I get on stage to play
I would suggest everyone should pray
Lying silent
In a wheezing chest of words
Divining whirred messagings
Of a moth’s wings blurred
Paralysed beneath the duvet
Hearing his antenna morse
Rapid flapping mind verse
The country radio
Tuning from Earl Scruggs to beetles
Munching oak flecks
Blind above my head flesh
Creaks like floorboards
Spine is peeled
Breathes the walls
Listens to
A record playing
Whose scratch revolves in ragged time.
one of the best banjo players that ever lived
we have to thank God for all that he'd give
a gift from God his life he lived
a heritage from his life we live
a happy heritage from the world that we lived
but tunes from a man that made us grin
a prodigy most scientist would begin
a gift from God i would throw in
lightening fingers i have heard him called
compared to jimmy hindrex
i wonder why at all
the music he gave us one and all
a thing by itself
that will never fall.
O, waiting for John Heck “in Fields of Eden”,
When “I Kissed a Butterfly” for “Breaking the Pen”
That Brandlynn Scruggs asked for “An Hour in Heaven”.
Note:
Thank you, John Heck and Brandlynn Scruggs, for your wonderful writes that
inspired this poem o’ mine.
A "Rhyme Incorporated" is a poetic form meaning "incorporation of poets’ names
and the titles of their poems" in a new poem. Rhyme incorporated poem can be
written as a short three mono-rhyming lines or in multiple stanzas of three mono-
rhyming lines and it is drawn from the titles of poems written by poets around the
world. The rhyme scheme for this form of poetry is aaa, bbb, ccc, etc., line 1 and
3 may or may have the same syllable counts. The simple rule is a poem is not
rhyme incorporated, if there are no names of other poets and the titles of their
works in your poem. The goal is to write a poem and at the same time promoting
other poets and their works. For more example of this form, please see
my “Starless Night: The Art of Giving”.
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