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Seeger Poems - Poems about Seeger

Premium Member Newport 1965
...Newport 1965 (Or Dylan Goes Electric) This was the dream concert folk was at its peak Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Odetta, Peter, Paul and Mary Bill Monroe, Johnny Cash, Gordon Lightfoot, Ian and......

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Categories: seeger, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Farmer Fred Sings Seeger
...It was halftime of the football game Grabbed an umbrella and strolled down the lane Saw Farmer Fred out singing in the rain These were the words of his refrain Where have all the voters gone? ......

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Categories: seeger, political,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member Zephyr
..."To everything there is a season." Ecclesiastes, Pete Seeger Through green leaves and golden tresses, blew Summer breezes when we were two. Then Autumn, by ones,......

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Categories: seeger, heartbreak, seasons, time, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Singing Memories My Annual Birthday Poem
...*** SINGING MEMORIES *** “Many days you have lingered around my cabin door. Hard times, come again no more.” ** A memory came flying through to me this afternoon — a fine memory, not recently......

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Categories: seeger, friendship, guitar, imagery, memory,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Book of Numbers
...I feel like Archimedes building calculus from scratch; Got a lever I can lean on, but the fulcrum doesn’t match. You’ll find them on the scoreboard And every roulette wheel. They help you chea......

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Categories: seeger, allegory,
Form: Lyric



I Must Be Asleep
...I must have fallen asleep somewhere in the fifties, sixties, and seventies as well. My father fought the War to end all wars it didn't and he rarely spoke of it again. Joe went off to the Korea......

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Categories: seeger, america,
Form: Carpe Diem
To Pete Seeger - Circa Shortly Before His Death - Verse One
...this anonymous weaver spins his written tapestry to acknowledge your ninetieth year no matter this author unknown who deftly weaves (for pete sakes) with english poetry which rhyming threads fire......

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Categories: seeger, farewell, grief, inspirational, journey,
Form: Elegy
To Pete Seeger - Circa Shortly Before His Death - Verse 2
...unsure if this epistle (possibly coming across as all mixed up) like some mish mashed verse ye might arrange and rearrange into a song living social in the country of upstate New York state epi......

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Categories: seeger, absence, age, america, appreciation,
Form: Elegy
Folksingers
...There once were some Weavers Who taught many of us to sing. But it wasn't until much later in life That their music would be my thing. I never followed Pete Seeger As his words with me didn'......

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Categories: seeger, memory, music, remember,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The 60's
... It was a cultural revolution, while a world jumped to conclusions Of mini-skirts, and go-go boots, and psychedelic tensions The flower child, would smile and sprout communal peaceful versio......

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Categories: seeger, history, time, tribute,
Form: Free verse
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...Pete Seeger flower child sandalwood Frank "Incensed" Myrrh, TH versus Pistol Pete, not the ball player personally, was rooting for Pete Pete lost happened in a boat rover and rover repeat......

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Categories: seeger, america, art,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When My Mother Talks
...Something about having you inside me feels like outside is warmer than inside even when maybe it's not but it could be and that doesn't matter because matter is about how happy we are inside......

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Categories: seeger, character,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member To Own the World
...Orange crush Bleachers on a sunny day Standing underneath Hiding in the shade Woke up there After an all nighter Party at the field Smoking crack And huffing nitrous What a scream Old Skinny Scrappy ......

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Categories: seeger, discrimination, freedom, identity, moving
Form: Free verse
Premium Member At Last the Day Will Come
...At last the day will come, my friend my friend, At last the day will come- The harbors will once more, fill up with love, not war, At last the day will come- From skies that once were dark, g......

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Categories: seeger, musicday, day, friend,
Form: Lyric
Hey, Pete Seeger!
...FREEDOM SONG Do you know the path to freedom, do you know the road to peace, do you know the value of truth and wisdom - let’s bind our hands across the land. Do you know how to love your br......

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Categories: seeger, peace, song-lyricworld, song, peace,
Form: Lyric

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