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Premium Member I'M Going Home
...I'm going home to Belize of my birth Beat the drums My fathers fashioned Honk the horns My brothers firmly hold Strike up the band, All a we da one. I am home! Not alone You, me, everybod......Read the rest...
Categories: strike up the band, anniversary, appreciation, beauty, blue,
Form: Bio

Premium Member I Will Still Fly My Flag
...So, come what may, I will still fly my flag I am proud to call myself an American, In spite of all her bizarre foibles and faults Crooked politicians and their shenanigans. So, come......Read the rest...
Categories: strike up the band, america, patriotic,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member New Moon
...New Moon What, a new moon? We're getting a new moon? You say it will be arriving soon? Will it be as shiny and bright As the other with its glistening light? Oh, how positively grand The la......Read the rest...
Categories: strike up the band, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Disparaging Cry Goes Up
...A disparaging cry goes up throughout our land Intense feelings are generated by vocal dissent We are not hearing a patriotic “Strike Up the Band!” The pot of dissent is stirred by a former ......Read the rest...
Categories: strike up the band, america, angst, anxiety, leadership,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member We Go To War
...We go to war to acquire more Land We go to war to protect our investment the Oil 'neat the sand We go to war to depose your 'evil leader' strike up the band We go to war becau......Read the rest...
Categories: strike up the band, cry, perspective, war,
Form: Rhyme

Strike Up Band At My Command
...must strike up the band when you want to understand do at my command Jim Horn......Read the rest...
Categories: strike up the band, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Here Comes the Sun
...At a hospital in the United States When someone beats the virus fates They play “Here comes the Sun” A Beatles standard grandly done The words hold a meaning for those Struck down by the Cov......Read the rest...
Categories: strike up the band, life, lost love,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Great Space Wedding Compromise
...My daughter's ideas strange as could be A moonscape wedding demanded from me Would Lunar sites open June twenty-three I checked with NASA; it wasn't to be What now? said my daughter, awash in t......Read the rest...
Categories: strike up the band, father daughter, moon, space,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Some Say
...Some say the most honorable thing one can do, Is to lay down one's life, for a friend. That is only a blip on the timeline of eternity. I would say, the greater gift, is to give a friend's spir......Read the rest...
Categories: strike up the band, good night,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Live Just Right
...I want to live life just right I don’t want to fuss around or fight The time has come to strike up my band This very moment is in my hand Forget about yesterday for it is past I’m not reliving......Read the rest...
Categories: strike up the band, life,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member When the Party Is Over
...The guests had all left; the band had stopped playing No more witty remarks, no more 'As I was saying' Decorations strewn casually on the floor here and there Half-filled glasses of champagn......Read the rest...
Categories: strike up the band, celebration, drink, music,
Form: Sonnet
Tall and Strong
...Stand up to the gale You know you cannot fail Tall and strong All along Strike up the band The win will be as planned Don’t cry You’ll get by. © Paul Warren Poetry......Read the rest...
Categories: strike up the band, conflict, courage,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Before the Concert
...A cacophony of sounds, all jumbled together Random notes, dissonance everywhere Violin bows saw the air lazily, effortlessly Then furiously, chins pressed hard to instruments Flautists'......Read the rest...
Categories: strike up the band, music,
Form: Verse
Soultrain
...The Soul-train was leaving the station, Believers were gathered on board. Their hands were all reaching for heaven, And happily praising the lord. But someone was left on the platform, A ticket......Read the rest...
Categories: strike up the band, funny, hilarious, humorous, religious,
Form: Rhyme
It's Hard
...Where life can seem half empty In a sandbox missing sand In this land of plenty It is still full of demands You can follow along the playbook Do the best you can But it's hard to fight what's ......Read the rest...
Categories: strike up the band, life,
Form: Rhyme

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