Travolta and Our High Heeled Boogie Shoes
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Some of you, will in memory, may fondly recall.
Enchanting, colored dance floors, you all had a ball!
When women still wore stunning, gorgeous dresses,
Unafraid to wear makeup, and sport l...
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Categories:
travolta, cute, dance, emotions, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Disco Fever Sweeps the Land
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Lit up balls sparkling bright
Hanging like a big bright light
Over a dance floor like a stage
People dancing a new craze
Disco is catching on fast
I wonder if it's gonna last
One arm staying...
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Categories:
travolta, dance, fun, music,
Form: Rhyme
Disco fever sweeps the land
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Lit up balls sparkling bright
Hanging like a big bright light
Over a dance floor like a stage
People dancing a new craze
Disco is catching on fast
I wonder if it's gonna last
One arm staying...
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Categories:
travolta, music,
Form: Rhyme
Rother Homme
...Rother Homme.
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Hi chicks my name is Chuck
I’m one hell of a man
In my tight satin trousers
A rug on my chest
And a fake tan
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Some men have got it
Someone of them don’t
And some a few of t...
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Categories:
travolta, men,
Form: Free verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems Vi
...Juvenilia: Early Poems VI
An Illusion
by Michael R. Burch
The sky was as hushed as the breath of a bee
and the world was bathed in shades of palest gold
when I awoke.
She came to me w...
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Categories:
travolta, poetry, poets, teen, teenage,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Things That Break Iii
...Poems about Things that Break III
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb, a thunderstorm, cities and towers in times of war, old ha...
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Categories:
travolta, break up, farewell, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Having Touched You
...Having Touched You
by Michael R. Burch
What I have lost
is not less
than what I have gained.
And for each moment passed
like the sun to the west,
another remained,
suspended in memory
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Categories:
travolta, care, death, first love,
Form: Verse
- Summer Songs of All Time -
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Do you have: "That Summer Feelin"
- by Jonathan Richman (1984)
Finally: "School's Out for Summer"
- by Alice Cooper (1972)
Yes, : "Sun is Shining"
- by Bob Marley and the Wailers (1971)
B...
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Categories:
travolta, blessing, song, summer,
Form: Free verse
From the Eyes of Someone Born In 1952
...Through the eyes of one born in 1952:
1950’s TV craze
Muscle cars, blue jeans
Poodle skirts, class ring exchanges
Simple time, grandparents involved.
Girls want to be pretty, men call women gi...
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Categories:
travolta, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Vinyl
...Vinyl (3/1/19)
“Wow, everybody just cleared out.
“That’s what happens when you leave a
“Bookstore with vinyl.”
I haven’t a clue what she meant
And to be perfectly honest, I’m not
Sure she k...
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Categories:
travolta, girlfriend, life, love, music,
Form: Free verse
Mother Rat
...Mother Rat
The queen of common suffering
is a pregnant rat.
She lifts a perfume atomizer
from a dumpster-
for its chandelier glint,
lilac smell,
mint vodka taste,
soft squeeze-bulb feel,
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Categories:
travolta, animal, death, drug, mother,
Form: Free verse
Where Were You In the Seventies
...WHERE WERE YOU IN THE SEVENTIES
i was between a tween and adult, in the house of the hudson valley,
and music was my main man,
i would hear whispered in my ear
me and mrs. jones...we got ...
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Categories:
travolta, life,
Form: Bio
Raise the Roof
...so you gotta second chance to take part in the dance
life is being busy making other plans you understand
as a young child I would dream of far off places
stuck in certain traces with castles b...
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Categories:
travolta, art, rap,
Form: Free verse
What Doesn'T Kill Us-Regrets
...Regrets I have a few today,
time flew by as the month of May,
ambitious thoughts I put off yesterday...
Looking back at my plowed fields I stumbled,
a reaping what I sowed kind of fumble,
out ...
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Categories:
travolta, growing up, how i
Form: Light Verse
Fancy Dress Party
...All the best costumes are taken.
So here I am,
dressed up like John Travolta.
Saturday Night Fever,
'cept it's Friday,
and my shoes aren't quite right.
All alone,
in a corner,
on ...
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Categories:
travolta, sad,
Form: I do not know?
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