Tag: rhythm
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Rhythm (&Blues)
You’d better know how much I want you, how much I am willing to fight, how much I am willing to persevere and how much I need to be right, how much I can give up, how much I can give in– you better know what I’m willing to do in order for us to…
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Locked Away
Her smile can hide a wealth of lies and all of them in blood I hear his words behind his words not all of them are good the more I listen, listen hard the more he wants to play He follows her along this old road this oldfashioned way place this play place this familiar…
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Blank Verse Thing
There she stood with flag unfurling, watching o’er the battle’s ending– watching o’er the bloody ending– while the bodies piled below her. There he stood that misty morning, watching blood run from her country, watching hope run from her country, watching it from his own eyrie. There, the fallen ones did praise them, praise them…
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Broken
Bile and rage will at best destroy the life that has only glass for a heart. If you’re to survive, you must forge anew a vessel that cannot be hated apart. Tags: hate, heart, love, poem, poems, poetry, rhythm, writing
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Nothing Like It Used To
They don’t write ’em like they used to, the epic songs, the twice-told tales; they don’t spin them like they used to, the stories you could stay up all night to listen to. They don’t play them like they used to, the long golden notes ringing out in every throat, echoed like nothing else, like…