Ian Scott Anderson
...Ian Scott Anderson
as a flautist loved to have fun
in prog. rock he wasn’t dull
and gave us Jethro Tull
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Categories:
tull, humorous,
Form: Clerihew
Yours truly me just got acclimated to writing 2024
...Yours truly (me) just got acclimated to writing 2024...
whenever I needed to append the date to a document
Though the situation infrequently arose
for me to incorporate the year (2024 in this ca...
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Categories:
tull, adventure, age, allusion, america,
Form: Free verse
THE BEN!
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Phonetically that’s what my name
means in Japanese, I’ve been told.
My name has a synonym.
My name is in the Bible.
Maybe one day, folks will say,
“Holy Ben!”
My mentor also ...
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Categories:
tull, crazy, me, muse,
Form: Bio
Isis staind 27 plus years
...Isis staind 27+ years...
of scorpion stinging poison us marriage,
whereby the missus and I,
nevertheless experienced genesis as
mama and papa respectively.
(jest kibitizing)
thus explain...
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Categories:
tull, adventure, angst, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Musical Organisms
...Musical Organisms
"Let’s Bungle In the Jungle” Jethro Tull
Don’t want to tangle
with slithery snakes.
"The Lion Sleeps Tonight” The Tokens
I won’t be walking in their
territory afte...
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Categories:
tull, humor,
Form: Free verse
Isis Staind 26 Plus Years of Marriage
...Isis staind 26+ years of marriage
Yes, believe me you,
I (also considered the best karaoke singer
for the go-go's)
putting Shabrina Leonita to shame
back in two thousand and twenty one
once...
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Categories:
tull, adventure, age, america, anniversary,
Form: Rhyme
While Daydreaming About Timepiece Inventors
...While daydreaming about timepiece inventors...
as the figurative curtain closes on 2022
How arbitrary the assignment
of seconds, minutes, hours,
days, months, years...
to the passage of time,
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Categories:
tull, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Acknowledgements
...1. John Desmond Patrick Keegan
2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
3. Sally Aline Mae Beller
4. Charles Edward A. Berry
5. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
6. Béla Ferenc Dezso Blaskó
7. Joh...
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Categories:
tull, appreciation, dedication, inspiration,
Form: List
Soothes My Soul
...Remember when "Suzie" wore her dresses tight
When Elton John was Singin' 'bout "Saturday night"
Singin' bout the rocket man and his old blue jeans
While Arlo Guthrie sung a song 'bout a train ...
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Categories:
tull, music,
Form: Lyric
Onerous Ordeal
...(strike while the iron's hot, else...
up prize cold hard steel Goldfinger
rewind: the following case in point).
Believe me you (stranger out there
along the information super highway),
perhaps...
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Categories:
tull, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Upon Contemplating What To Write
...Who decides what historical events adorn
textbooks students read,
hence a starry notion born
grew up while
this lumpenproletariat day dreaming,
Asian aw shucks husky
husba...
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Categories:
tull, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Roland's Tower Part Ii
...The gunslinger entered the tiny town of Tull
A town that was cast under his enemy's spell.
First smiles, then lies, last gunfire came,
Then Tull lay dead, in the gunslinger's name.
Through the hu...
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Categories:
tull, adventure, allegory, analogy, boy,
Form: Ballad
While Daydreaming About Timepiece Inventors Two Oh Clock
...A quick and easy (makeshift, albeit very temporary)
Cheap Trick would suffice in the interim
(which might entail many generations)
to rock a Super Tramp off The Farm.
Lo and behold a panacea ...
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Categories:
tull, career, creation, devotion, humor,
Form: Ode
Govan Lass Written In Glesga Slang
...Am a lass fae Govan
There a wiz born n breid
When a wiz wee a wiz playing tig on the dykes
N a split ma poor wee heid
Fae Glesga to Fife
Wiz where we went
To a flat in Methil
That ma maw goa...
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Categories:
tull, adventure,
Form: Verse
Isis Staind 19 Plus Years of a Scorpion Sting Ing Poison Us Marriage
...without wearing a helm mitt on my head, yet did suffer inxs
of welts the size of cranberries amidst talking heads, whose traffic
mishap of cars unable to Stp, thus this passenger indistinguishable ...
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Categories:
tull, character, feelings, hip hop,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
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