Short Roy Orbison Poems
Short Roy Orbison Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Roy Orbison by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Roy Orbison by length and keyword.
Vignette- Only the Lonely
A poet with a voice
and a popular choice
Tragedy dogged his life-
Emotion in a controlled cry..
Too early did it die.
Tribute-Roy Orbison (1936-1988)...
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Categories:
roy orbison, music, people
Form:
Narrative
Marion Robert Morrison
Marion Robert Morrison
his voice couldn’t be confused with Roy Orbison
but he really gained his fame
when he became known as John Wayne
...
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Categories:
roy orbison, film,
Form:
Clerihew
Unrequited Love
Returning from a one-sided
love affair
on a full tank of unleaded love.
It didn’t help matters much
with Roy Orbison singing
“It’s over” on the radio;
I made an attempt to turn it off
but I just couldn’t do it.
I was masochistically mesmerized:
hearing only his voice
lamenting its familiar, few last lyrics:
“It's over, it's over,
it’s over… it’s o...ver.”
Indeed, it was!...
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Categories:
roy orbison, love hurts,
Form:
Free verse
A Moment of the Past
I sit before my monitor
Humming an old Roy Orbison
Tune I memorized so long ago.
Hum…Hum um! That Hum! Again
“They’re playing that song again.
I guess it will never end. They’re
Playing it again…” The time I
Spent as a kid replaying it:
A borrowed forty-five record
Until I heard it in my sleep;
That’s what we did to occupy
Our time before the arrival
Of the now widespread computer
I guess nothing lasts forever!...
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Categories:
roy orbison, introspectiontime,
Form:
Free verse