Pretentious
...Full court press on the press
an all out assault on speech
verbose wit-nitts sowing deceit supremes masquerading liberators
an all out assault on speech
university protest branded
supremes...
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Categories:
supremes, america, angst, bullying, freedom,
Form: Pantoum
The Golden Age of Sound 1955 to 1975
...The jukebox glowed, the records spun..
A brand-new age had just begun.
From ‘55 to ‘75,
Music soared, it came alive.
The blues and jazz still held their ground..
But rock and roll had found it...
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Categories:
supremes, dance, journey, memory, music,
Form: Rhyme
Golden Age of Music
...Two decades of music were known as the golden age.
It was all the rage, the era from the 50s through the 70s
Motown, Rock and Roll, and Blues that touched my heart.
Listening to them always start ...
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Categories:
supremes, music,
Form: Free verse
Magical Moments
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“Your Life will be Filled with Magical Moments”
Now what more can be said except that anything is possible at any given moment. Probably the greatest example of something from nothing comes from t...
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Categories:
supremes, poetry,
Form: Haibun
Beachfront 8945
...As I walk through the sands of the beach, I wonder if the love of my life
will ever come into my life. Life is strange; you see many places of sands,
but not of any particular item that sta...
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Categories:
supremes, 10th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Claudette the Chiropodist
...Island girl now of Purley
at youth shielded from Rock N Roll
she remembers the Supremes
Kick start those autumn leaves
You're a pillar of an ancient profession
This is no ruse
just plain though...
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Categories:
supremes, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Adjudications
...Esteemed personages and jurists
let the oral arguments begin.
Sir, the legality of your position on this
most serious of matters
limps like a drunken duck.
Madam your logic has diminished,
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Categories:
supremes, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Our Music Was Is the Best
...It’s funny how each generation thinks their music is the best
that the songs of their youth are the best songs…
and how each generation knows that they are right…
and every other generations out t...
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Categories:
supremes, music,
Form: Rhyme
Native Demise
...Our forever Sky Dancer peace parades his Paradise dance on soaring
silky clouds kissing a milky blue tender sky, sun on high, breezes on low
all giving way to cautioned Winds of a coming Change. T...
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Categories:
supremes, america, education, endurance, international,
Form: Free verse
The Eagle's Eye
...By rontwigger
Is there somebody who has an eagle's eye,
An eye that could see anybody's whereabouts?
Oh, I guess no mundane would say an aye.
For sure He scorns when someone flouts.
Is there...
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Categories:
supremes, 12th grade, god,
Form: Rhyme
A Song of Three - Favorite
...I sing a song of three.
There’s Larry, Curly, Moe;
the Ego and the Id
and the Super Ego.
Three Kings of the Orient
are known as three wise men.
Showing up at Christmas too
in song are three ...
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Categories:
supremes, fun,
Form: Rhyme
My Favorite Music
...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
R...
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Categories:
supremes, music,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Mustang Sally Dwm
...Sixties music was so sublime.
It was bell bottomed trousers and Motown time.
The Tracks of My Tears and Ooh Baby, Baby
Our dances to our parents seemed crazy.
We would slow grind to Smokey’s cr...
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Categories:
supremes, age, dance, music,
Form: Rhyme
Tom Hanks
...T his the mid-seventies, California,
O akland Airport Hilton Inn, town aura,
M idst Oakland Stadium Complex, airport.
H ospitality Senior Special sort.
A t ni...
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Categories:
supremes, allegory, career, dedication, destiny,
Form: Acrostic
When Did It All Start
...Go go boots
Made for walking
Nancy Sinatra
60’s fodder
Rock’N Roll
Jazz
The Blues
Diana Ross and the Supremes
Elvis and Ann Margaret
Ed Sullivan
The Beatles
Twiggy
Mini-skirts
Johnny Cas...
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Categories:
supremes, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
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