Short Seeger Poems

Pete Seeger flower child sandalwood Frank "Incensed" Myrrh, TH
versus
Pistol Pete, not the ball player
personally, was rooting for Pete
Pete lost
happened in a boat
rover and rover repeat...

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Something about having
you inside
me feels like outside is
warmer than
inside even when
maybe it's not but
it could be and that
doesn't matter because
matter is about how
happy we are inside and
outside.

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RIP, Pete Seeger.
Namaste
~N...

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"To everything there is a season." Ecclesiastes, Pete Seeger

Through green leaves and golden tresses, blew
Summer breezes when we were two.

Then Autumn, by ones, by twos, by threes
Swirled amber leaves off of the trees.

A white Winter storm, I was bereft,
And only leafless branches left.

A Spring zephyr on a sunny day
Told me, "Everything's OK"....

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Newport 1965
(Or Dylan Goes Electric)

This was the dream concert
folk was at its peak
Pete Seeger, Joan Baez,
Odetta, Peter, Paul and Mary
Bill Monroe, Johnny Cash,
Gordon Lightfoot, Ian and Sylvia
But the prize, the dream was
to see Dylan play Blowin’ In the Wind
acoustically.
The folkie purists were shocked,
the dream had died.
Dylan played Maggie’s Farm with an
electric guitar and their world came
to an end.
...

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