Short John Lennon Poems

love is asking to be loved-john lennon...

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so,

      let us

           imagine ......

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in my beach chair peace
listening to john lennon
giving Peace a Chance...

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john lennon
imagine
dark clouds rolling in



posted on June 18, 2018...

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he signs his name - -
a madman smiles and strokes 
his revolver

John Lennon
For Rhonda’s Beatle Mania contest...

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John Winston Ono Lennon
From Britain to Brooklyn, decked in denim
Controversial through his peace and political activism
Felled by Mark David Chapman's act of barbarism...

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in a perfect world 
imagine all the people 
living life as one 

John Lennon "Imagine" 


Sing Me A Senryu Poetry Contest 
Sponsored by Maureen McGreavy 
8-312-2019...

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Imagine there's no cupcake
Someone in the house ate yours
No Krispy Kremes or KitKats
No pudding pops or s'mores
Imagine there's no halva 
Behind cupboard doors, oo hoo oo....

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I would IMAGINE that such wisdom will always be remembered with emotion 



~
12/12/15
Contest: One Liners #7
Sponsor Silent One
Favorite Song: "Imagine" (John Lennon)...

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Jeweled lights are blinking
Jaunty tunes fill the room
Johnny B. Goode with Chuck
Jumpin' Jack Flash with Mick
Jerry Lee Lewis wails
John Lennon twists and shouts
Jitterbug all night long...

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A hot summer afternoon
A news flash around noon
John Lennon shot dead
For infamy instead
Mark Chapman for the kill
For him just the thrill
And we lost a treasure
Gone from the world forever.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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In another time and place
Music continues to play
As John Lennon caresses his keys
Giving sweet tunes away
If one day I meet him there I will have a smile
Ninety minutes a day would be my slice of heaven
Enjoying listening to him play...

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Alice In Chains
Blind Melon
Cold
Danzig
Escape The Fate
Foo Fighters
Garbage
Hole
If
John Lennon
KMFDM
Led Zeppelin
Metallic
Nirvana
Oasis
Pearl Jam
Qual
Radiohead
Smashing Pumpkins
Tom Petty
Used
Violent Soho
Weezer
Xunn
Yellowcard
Zeek...

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(From Skiffle to Fame)

Quarrymen were a group
Quite good oldies do say
Quirky to the youth now
Quaint compared to these days.
Quoth Sir Paul McCartney
Quips John Lennon as well
Question’s metamorphosis.

© Harry J Horsman 2021...

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Listening through the words in a Beatles song
written by John Lennon
I thought of music but it's hard to construe
without thinking of the blues
If everything was art
you would be in a better place
to start
but your not
you go through time
like an echo...

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What great impact the Beatles had on popular music
Their influence on the pop scene reflected our moral fabric
The killing of John Lennon in 1980
Caused such grief, this horrific tragedy
Here's my salute to the Fab Four for providing such unparalleled acoustics...

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The timid 
find courage
in the well
— of another’s fear

(Valley Forge Park: February, 2024) 


Call Me Ishmael

Mediocre writing
spawns editing 
The Great Works
— born unchanged

‘Thoughts of: Bob Dylan, Laura Nyro, John Lennon, Steve Winwood, Kris Kristofferson’
(February: 2024)
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Jim Morrison,
How sore the drugs made him,
Kurt Cobain,
Passed at the hands of the vain,
John Lennon,
Met insanity’s venom,
Heath Ledger,
His daughter, he left her,
Brandon Lee,
Met his father’s fate,
I haven’t realized to this date,
Why awe-inspiring people,
Seem to pass when-
We least expect it....

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The 
Beatles 
Ringo Starr 
George Harrison 
With Paul McCartney 
And John Lennon 
Also, Pete 
Best, played 
Drums 

Girl 
Get Back 
In My Life 
Can't Buy Me Love 
I'll Follow The Sun 
Don't Let Me Down
Let It Be 
Something 
Help!


Ninette Poetry Contest 
Sponsor: Caren Krutsinger 
7/2/2021...

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John Lennon died on this day
Chapman shot and blew him away
So sad a man of peace is killed so violently
You see killing can be done so easily

When someone wants to be known by all
Get a gun and kill fame is at your call
Now the 8th December is the day
John Lennon is remembered shot down that way.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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love is all you need

                            somewhere over the rainbow

                                  Given the wings to fly







Song:  Love Is All You Need/John Lennon - Beatles
           Somewhere Over The Rainbow/Arlen & Harburg - Izzy
           September 2, 2019

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Forty years ago today
Was when John Lennon died.
The world was shocked and saddened
Watching peace and death collide.

My dad was in the hospital – 
His triple bypass failed – 
So while all John’s fans were mourning,
My entire life derailed.

Two deaths forever intertwined
With tragic disbelief
Will always bring me, on this date,
Back to that searing grief....

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Remember our daughters
Remember our sons
Reserve this world
for the future ones.

The tearing of nature
and our beautiful land
The polluting of air
that I cannot stand.

Let's live in harmony
Let's live with feeling
Not with astrology
or the fortune tellers dealing.

Remember John Lennon
the love he would send
to the young and the old
till his life it did end.

Robert Dale Taylor...

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he's a sweet harmonica home Joe
soft steel raven, bending blues
dripping honey from her spoon
nothing quite says melancholy
like a harp in cupping wah-wah glow
for endless grooves, a winding show
playing Take Me Home Country Road
and Lennon's riff in Love Me Do
with gracious silk, a satin throw
a trip to the moon in a single note
around the cosmos, her kiss, I know
our love, warm lips, harmonica Joe...

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DB COOPER-IAN MUNYWE
Ka DB cooper sina pupa,
nitaondokea pia muda ukifika.
Daily kukachora kuzuia swara,
bila rwaara bado ninang`ara.
kaka dada mama baba,
nawatakia mengi mafanikio.
nahisi kama Jimi Hendrix,
back in 69 huko woodstock,
ama king Bob Marley in 79 santa barbara.
vibe ilikuwa safi pia,
John Lennon akiwa madison square in 72.
basi tunazidi kwa bidii,
maombi tele ili majaaliwa tufike kilele....

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