Elvis

[LCK]

This poem was inspired by Larry on 'Rattle and Hum' He was so quiet, so stricken after visiting Elvis' grave and said he almost wished it had been somewhere he couldn't have gone... My late father was also a huge Elvis fan himself, I was raised on Elvis and the Beatles the way my kids have been raised on U2 and Springsteen.

Elvis

Even in death
We do not let you rest
Adulation
Will not cease
Yet in our enthusiasm
To keep you with us
We are suffocating you
Holding You
In perpetual limbo
Your grave
Done up like a Vegas shrine
The tramp of millions of
Footsteps
Passing by, reaching out
Never giving you peace
An eternal spotlight
A benevolent purgatory
Cast upon you;
You should be
On a quiet hill
Beneath a weeping willow
Whose branches
Bow and stretch
Down to a nearby stream
I want to picture you
On an ethereal highway
Guitar slung across your back
Your Harley beneath you
The freedom of the wind
In your face
The shackles of fame cut loose
Let you ride eternally free
Rest in peace at last.

Laurie

 

[AcrobatMan]

Hi Laurie

you have hijacked Dream out section

poetry all of them

AcrobatMan

 

[LCK]

Sorry to be so greedy with the bandwidth Least I should do is get off my butt and send in my premium registration to help cover it eh? Thanks for the compliment.

 

[gareth brown]

*Reads Poem*



That was absolutley beautiful! You really have natural talent for poetry. Do you just do it in your spare time/whenever you feel the need to or quite a lot? Because they are bloody fantastic!