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Seeger Poems - Poems about Seeger


Premium Member Pete Seeger
Is a picture worth a thousand words? Is it the same with a song? Is it worth a thousand pictures? Who can deny the powerful images evoked from Songs of Struggle and Protest – a forte of common humanity? A song can paint optimism, commitment, and a desire for peace, freedom, and the right to live without …Your Millions, Mister. A piece of...

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Categories: seeger, courage, emotions, environment, future,
Form: Ekphrasis
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? Hard time knowing Where have all the voters gone? Four years ago Where have all the voters gone? The Dems have lost them everyone Oh, when will they ever...

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Categories: seeger, political,
Form: Political Verse



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 away (from axons to neurons) at warp speed way out there attempting to coalesce into some semblance of comprehension from non other than me a veritable stranger, who considers your a folk icon that...

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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 epitomizing spartan holistic existence somewhere over the rainbow with a hefty purse exemplifying decades of fame and fortune that odds on favorite moost did highly rate your fount of...

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Categories: seeger, absence, age, america, appreciation,
Form: Elegy
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 brother, do you know how to understand, do you realize that you live only once - let’s fill the world with love and...

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




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