Driving Down Memory Lane
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I was drivin’ down an old, worn black-top highway, on my way to a funeral. It was mid-Missouri, and late summer made it hotter’n the dickens outside. I was thinkin’ there was only a couple of hou...
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Categories:
seein, friendship, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative
Dr please listen
...Dr please listen
Dr. please listen,
I'm laid up in this bed and I'm wishin',
Hopin' for a doc to come with the vision,
To gimme pain meds,
the ones I've been missin'.
But into the wind,
man...
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Categories:
seein, anger, angst, conflict, drug,
Form: Free verse
Alaina
...Alaina
Se llamaba Alaina
She stole my heart in a cabana
I still can’t listen to Santana
I need my gotta see my Alaina-na-na-na
My Alaina-na-na-na
Oh oh oh oh oh, um um um um
Her hips did a...
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Categories:
seein, heart,
Form: Lyric
Ain'T That My Clue
...I saw you with him
and him kissin’ you.
Ain’t that my clue darlin’,
ain’t that my clue?
Your eye and my eye
ain’t seein’ the same
Ain’t that a shame darlin’,
ain’t that a shame?
I’m no...
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Categories:
seein, emotions, feelings, goodbye, how
Form: Lyric
Breathebaby
...*Solo tempo female slow almost 'rap'*
Sittin' here just thinkin-
Lots of thoughts *kinda chuckle/sly smile*-bettween the pain I feel all over that radiates all through my veins
To the mental angui...
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Categories:
seein, education, emotions, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Lyric
You Need To Know
...If he makes you wonder just how much you're loved
Then baby he's doin' it wrong
If his heart doesn't melt at the thought of your touch
Then you're somewhere where you don't belong
If he's not see...
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Categories:
seein, longing, love,
Form: Lyric
Tapora
...Like Hannibal we crossed the pass and crossed
the Alps (okay, the Brynderwyn Hills)
and a bridge too far on north-west passage.
From out of the Valley of Mizpah
to the fires of perdi...
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Categories:
seein, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Goodbye To the Gallaghers
...When you watch a show for many years,
The characters you’re viewing
Become like friends; you care about
Their lives and what they’re doing.
So when the final season wraps,
It’s sad to know the...
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Categories:
seein, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Seein' Me Thru' Your Eye
...I am the dark
Pigment in grey
I am the nail that binds the culms
Of our Bamboo bridge
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Categories:
seein, feelings, heartbreak, heartbroken, poems,
Form: Free verse
How Much Farther We Can Fall
...If it’s the thrill of the hunt
The chase that you want, I’m game
In the darkness of night when we make love
I’ll have you calling out my name
Every lingering thought has got me caught up
In a...
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Categories:
seein, deep, devotion, emotions, feelings,
Form: Lyric
Starlight
...You come into my dreams - From out of the blue
Every night it seems - I lay thinking of you
Words can sometimes get in the way
So I say - no words at all
I just let your heart beat
Set the r...
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Categories:
seein, dream, love, stars,
Form: Lyric
Philosophers Waltz
...This is a song about nothin’
‘Cause I don’t have nothin’ to say
And now’s not the time to not say it
That’s why I’m here singin’ today
The new days lay so far behind us
The past stretches ...
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Categories:
seein, philosophy, song,
Form: Rhyme
Tax Man - a Country Haibun
...Greetings. We received your toxic tax documents today; proceeded to immerse them in the de-cootie wash for precisely 30 minutes; then showered them with Gamma Ray’s, which is not what you think it i...
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Categories:
seein, business, humor, silly,
Form: Haibun
A Smile
...A smile is supposed to be real, not fake
But instead, people think that they can just take
Even when someone takes their life, just with the hold of a very sharp knife
Once you start bleeding, you...
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Categories:
seein, depression, sad, truth,
Form: Lyric
Happy
...I want to be HAPPY again, is that at all a sin
My life is crappy and I’m starting to get snappy.
But how can I have a smile when I’ve been faking it for a while.
I feel so trapped inside my head; ...
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Categories:
seein, depression,
Form: Lyric
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