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Syd Poems - Poems about Syd

To the Strongest Woman I've Ever Known

...To the strongest
Woman I’ve ever known,
The brightest light in every 
Room, Church,
Hall and building
That she 
Ever entered.

To the strongest 
Woman I’ve ever known,
You never knew
How y...
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Categories: syd, anxiety, grandmother, grief, growing
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSyd Barrett

...Syd has finally come home to nest,
somewhere on the dark side of the moon.
Lovingly tending to his space rock garden.
Sometimes he strums an ancient guitar
and whispers sweetly to pinkish stars.
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Categories: syd, good night, people,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberSee You On the Dark Side of the Moon

...What's on the moon's darkest parched side
that spooky cool patch, for millennium ignored
perhaps manphibians sitting aside a moonfire
worshipping the sun and its quivers of fine gold-

Maybe the...
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Categories: syd, allusion, earth, moon,
Form: Free verse

Christmas Day Near Massacre

...When we were kids, kids we were without no pain or fears,
we’d do the ‘devilish’ of things to impress our peers.
The biggest dare or bravest feat would for the pack be tried.
Lord knows now when I...
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Categories: syd, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Another Brick In the Wall

...Another Brick in the Wall

I went to St Peters School in Cambridge
The first time I ever heard Pink Floyd
Was at my friends house during lunch break
His name was Brendan 
And was kicked out of ...
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Categories: syd, music,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberFilter Kings

...Two years and a couple of weeks and I will be on the road again. Back from living right and ready to start living wrong. Ain't that a *****. But I got a pocket full of money gotta last me till they b...
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Categories: syd, freedom,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberCurious George

...I remember Christopher Robin
When helping Pooh find honey
Was my biggest problem
I remember the blustery days
We trusted each other in every way

I remember When we helped Eeyore
Find his way ...
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Categories: syd, adventure, child abuse, childhood,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Lunatic Is On the Grass

...Unknowingly unable again to ever feel
As I stand gazing at the gates of dawn
Arnold Lange in evening heels
Awkwardly walking across the lifeless lawn
The pipers playing softly in the rays of a ne...
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Categories: syd, confusion,
Form: Rhyme

Two Sisters

...I’d been out of work for quite some time and let me funds run low,
Of course this meant some favoured treats are first things that must go,
And for me favoured treat that meant the most, I degenera...
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Categories: syd, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Unnamed

...Love is lost within the world
Anger flares in light of misconceptions
Sadness comes and sees its flag unfurled
Feeding itself on varying perceptions

This poem was written for my by another poet....
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Categories: syd, lonely, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTickles and Pickles In Eve's Den

...He's given me a pickle
with nary any tickle!
As in the shade I stood
[He wasn't very good!]

The apple that I shared
he gave to me unpared.
So I gave his snake a shake
to make him see the stakes.

Th...
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Categories: syd, funny, me,
Form: Light Verse

Syd Barrett Tribute Poem

...Thoughtlessness 
of an fanciful mind
camouflaged to a layman's eye

a vision with an 
uptopian trance
mimicked by 
the madcap laughs

Shine on, 
Crazy Diamond...
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Categories: syd, music,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Soupson For Four

..."My God, if I was just able
to pick just four for my table,
Lord who would it be,
Yes, surely nette,
and Syd for we’d want a fable!

Now, in short, that makes only two
I know, our wee nikko wo...
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Categories: syd, friendship
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberHallowed Ground

...As the breath fills our hallowed chest with life 
and heart beats upon drum of anch’ring bone
so prayerful meditation eases strife,
through dance and strum, we know, we’re not alone.
Our mantras ...
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Categories: syd, caregiving, devotion, faith
Form: Ottava rima

Message In a Bottle - Girl - Syd

...“MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE”…....GIRL..…..SYD


Oft-times I gave my true love  flowers  -

Embodiment of  loveliness,

Well-shaped and  well-proportioned,

So pretty and so fresh,

So perfumed,  ...
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Categories: syd, love
Form: Nonet

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