Short Bluegrass Poems

Bluegrass wedding barn
dressed in burlap and satin
young couple fiddling...

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fiddle heads unfurl
bluegrass music sounds in breeze
hear nature's banjo...

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bluegrass music
fiddles playing
fun knee slapping
happy clapping
is uplifting
fine memories...

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From pirouettes to guitar frets
    ballet to country crooners

  Enchanted elegance poached
    by bluegrass sand-duners...

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a patch of bluegrass;
ponders extroversion hues;
spikes jaded green grass


6/6/20
written words by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2020...

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A musical pointer up in Grants Pass
just can’t get enough of bluegrass
To the banjos and strings
he prances and sings
but still misses the woodwinds and brass...

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That Grand Old Opry;
Nightly Nashville celebrates
Country heritage.
Down home folks sing down home songs;
Hard working lives in downtime.
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Bluegrass banjos
fueling the vision

Death
is hard to take
sometimes

but it’s not
like we 
ever had
a choice in the matter

It happens
of its own volition...

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fiddler speeds music up
dancers are getting dizzy
crowd claps and stamps
you are in hillbilly country now
make some noise if you want to live
bluegrass is real here...

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Grandpa fiddler was born in Bluegrass city
He could strum a fiddler like a diddler’s middy.
What does that mean? Ask a churched old biddy.
It means that you do not understand Bluegrass city....

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What is it about a bluegrass banjo solo
That turns my crank and drives me loco
That foot tappin' beat
Can't control my feet
I freak out, guess I'm just a bluegrass banjo bozo...

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What is it about a bluegrass banjo solo
That turns my crank and drives me loco
That foot tappin' beat
Can't control my feet
I freak out, guess I'm just a bluegrass banjo bozo...

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What is it about a bluegrass banjo solo
That turns my crank and drives me loco
That foot tappin' beat
Can't control my feet
I freak out, guess I'm just a bluegrass banjo bozo


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Bette Midler and Cher
Liza Minelli
Disney music
Tony Orlando
Sing along with Mitch

Sonny and Cher
Elvis Presley
Bluegrass music
Rock-a-billy

Johnny Cash
The Supremes
Marching band

Rhythm
Music

Cher...

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She is Marie Stradivari from the Italian violin makers of the Stradivarius.
Her instrument was created from spruce, willow, and maple, 
it is probably worth millions.
We listen, tapping our feet,
happily thinking of bluegrass...

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It's time to cut the grass;
And along the beaten path;
~
a whirling blade of brass;
Metal touching Nature's staff;
~
Wayward stamps a bluegrass;

4/18/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr  2020...

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B ill Monroe is its father
L ester Flat, its brother
U ntil you learn the Masters
E xpect a few disasters
G ood practice will bear good fruit 
R eplaying songs from grassroots
A ttend a festival soon
S mile when you hear a good croon
S weet music keeps you in tune...

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We are the Black Crows the bluegrass band told us when we came by.
Why in the world would they use that name? I asked my Uncle Sky.
Let’s go see them play he suggested, maybe there will be a little clue.
Their main banjo player was a big black crow named Uncle Simon Lou....

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We are the Black Crows the bluegrass band told us when we came by.
Why in the world would they use that name? I asked my Uncle Sky.
Let’s go see them play he suggested, maybe there will be a little clue.
Their main banjo player was a big black crow named Uncle Simon Lou....

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Must have a banjo
To get that Bluegrass sound
The bass is needed
To nail the rhythm down

Fiddle plays a lead
Tingles go up your spine
Guitar keeps the beat
Or picks melody line

The Mandolin chop
Makes the Bluegrass whole
Greater than its parts
Music of solid gold...

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Banjo strings ringing
Mandolin singing
Bass beating out time
Harmonic guitar
Fiddle sighing notes.

Playing so fast
The strings will snap
Bows will lose hair
Players don’t care.

Playing’s fun
Many runs
Filling air.

No cares
Bluegrass

Rules!
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Charles
Stubborn, jolly, curious and easy-going
Brother of Jerry, “Big J”
Lover of peanut butter, sunshine and bluegrass music 
Who feels lucky, happy and challenged
Who fears current politics, the IRS and death
Who would like to see a return of old time values, religion and friendships
Resident of Bellevue, WA
Sides...

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You have to have a banjo
To get that Bluegrass sound
 The bass is a necessity
 To nail the rhythm down

When the fiddler plays a lead
It shoots tingles up your spine
A guitar helps to keep the beat
Or pick the melody line

The Mandolin’s offbeat chop
Makes the Bluegrass whole
Greater than the sum of the parts
 This music’s solid gold...

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There was an old man from Bluegrass,
          who always ate green sassafras.
                        His tummy got icky,
                        somersaults and sicky,
                 took pills, now there’ll BEANO more gas!




A Limerick, Old or New: Your personal favorite Poetry Contest
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Written: April 10, 2018...

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Metronome heart beats in 4/4 time while mandolin chimes in staccato voice.  In the background, guitar hums and banjo sings.  Bluegrass echoes across southern winds; blues and mountain music force a dance from tranquil feet; it’s a concert fit for country royalty, at the Opry.  The East coast clogs and smiles.

On the rolling winds,
Echo strains of the southland;
Gaia’s toe tapping.

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