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Poetry: The blues

• 1 of 47

  by Sid de Knees

  On-line blues....

  When I see sadness more than smiles,
  and clearly joy becomes old news,
  I know I know from other trials
  beneath

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  by Johnny Stone

  TWELVE BARS

  she sings the blues
  like it ain't no thing
  but her heart's on the table
  scarred and belabored
  like a boxer who stayed
  too

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• 3 of 47

  by Steven West

  I'm feeling kind of down
  Because I have the blues.
  I'm going to leave this town
  That's yesterday's news.

  There's no point in

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  by Renae Richardson

  Pastel, midnight, and indigo

  Somber, passionate, and unglued

  Fragments of brokenness in verse

  Outpouring of vexations continuously

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• 5 of 47

  by Fran Mascioli

  I cried as I watched it still struggle to beat.

  How could it still work, down there by my feet?

  I never knew I could feel this

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Poetry: The blues