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Twitty Poems - Poems about Twitty

The Ghost of Frankenstein - Things to Come
...You’d recreate a military hero? Macarthur, maybe? Nimitz? Pershing? Sherman? Or would you choose a leader from the past? Suppose you went for Mussolini – Nero – (I can’t remember what they called......

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Categories: twitty, future,
Form: Rhyme
Conway
...When a Country singer died, people felt sadness and pity. He died thirty years ago and his name was Conway Twitty. Conway sang "Tight Fittin' Jeans" and "I'd Love To Lay You Down". He died of an a......

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Categories: twitty, anniversary, death,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Country - Pleiades
...Cash, Willie, Cline, and a Coal Miner’s daughter sang Classics with "Dolly" twang. Crossover Taylor Swift, Conway with Twitty wit, Clint Black, Garth, Strait, McGraw, Carrie, Blake: Love them a......

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Categories: twitty, music,
Form: Pleiades
Premium Member Dancing In the Fifties
...Throughout the nineteen-fifties, times were neat; full, long flared skirts and bobby socks gals wore, while rock and roll and doo-wop moved our feet to music slow and fast on the dance floor. E......

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Categories: twitty, dance, fun, high school,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member My Kind of Heaven
...Opps! must be dead, looks like the pearly gates, Rough guy levitates towards me, think I know his face, St Peter, I need some help trying to get into this place, I’ll let you enter kiddo, bu......

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Categories: twitty, celebrity, death, drink, drug,
Form: Rhyme



Finding Me
...I’m from toy cars and mismatched Barbie shoes. I’m from bike races down the one road where no unpadded limb was safe. I’m from a Sunday carpool and Tom Thumb slushies in Florala. I’m from the twan......

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Categories: twitty, appreciation, i am,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It Could Have Been Me
...Sweet rice Sleep tight Everybody ride a bike Home sick pick up bricks Throwing up doesn't necessary mean you're sick You could be having an exhortation Just missed the revelations Now whose go......

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Categories: twitty, adventure, analogy, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Modern English Most
...Modern English Most Do use modern English most these days If poems wanted to receive much praise So of the game what must be the quirk? Answer is Poetry Soup having a network. Another secret......

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Categories: twitty, political,
Form: Couplet
Truck Stop Time
...Truck Stop Time The frozen wind cracks its whip And slits my darkened lips One on top of the other, dry. The warm blood hardens scabs crusty on my Four o’clock shadow Four o’clock a week ago......

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Categories: twitty, drink, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Do You Hear Them Sing
...Do you still hear them sing? As I open the gates of heaven. I listen to the sweet music of Johnny cash. As I board the train, as he sings the orange blossom special. I take the train for the stage......

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Categories: twitty, music,
Form: ABC
Pd's Lullaby
...Little Linda close your eyes It's time to tell the day goodbye Lay your head down, soft and slow It's time to let your worries go Still the thoughts, racing through your brain Don't give in to......

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Categories: twitty, imagination, time, day, time,
Form: Rhyme
Good Ole Days
...The Good Ole Days Grilling hotdogs in the backyard, Relaxing on a tree tire swing. Listening to Conway Twitty on the radio, Hearing daddy trying to sing. Picking daisies for mommy’s birthday......

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Categories: twitty, life
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Conway Twitty, Boyhood Memories
...Some of those boyhood memories, only so often come around, so when they do, I set them free, on paper I write them down, When I was younger living at Blackiston Mill.. I had a rocking horse, ......

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Categories: twitty, childhood, history, introspection, music
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Eighth Grade
...1960 and the world was changing A time for living and rearranging Baseball in the school yard with a sponge ball and a fist Donnie Brooks sang Mission Bell and Chubby did The Twist Bobbie sox and......

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Categories: twitty, childhood, music, nostalgiaschool, world,
Form: Narrative
Twitty
...(Dedicated to Conway Twitty who passed away June 5, 1993) The world faced a great loss when you died in 1993. You went on the road too soon after having surgery. Your death felt like a crime. Y......

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Categories: twitty, death, loss, music, world,
Form: I do not know?

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