Some people can string together a thousand words
of the most beautiful poetry ever heard
but what matters the most to me,
is do they write from the heart
With sincerity?
By:J.N.R Dutton
Tag: heart
Down Home Country Feel
I heard the music of a songwriter named John today
Whose poetic lyrics were phrased in a perfect way
He’s a throwback to good old days,
not greedy or changing for the latest craze
He sang from the soul, kept it real,
He had that down home country feel
By:J.N.R Dutton
The Golden Voice
Randy had a golden voice that the whole world came to know
I always loved to hear it come on the radio
When he sang a song it was about both
the heartfelt message & the show
Though his voice was robbed from him,
by a stroke a few years ago
He’s fighting tooth & nail to recover,
even though progress is slow
By:J.N.R Dutton
Wild & Free
He never learned or cared much about
the formal rigid rules of poetry
He had more of a “Dead Poets” thing going,
writing from the heart, about his life,
& dreams, letting his mind run wild & free
& occasionally, he hit on a cool rhyme scheme
By: J.N.R Dutton
The “Dead Poets” referenced in this poem is the 1989 film “Dead Poets Society” starring the late great Robin Williams as maverick teacher John Keating
Tanya Tucker
I grew up on Tanya Tucker’s
“Two Sparrows In A Hurricane”
It has a depth few other songs can claim
It’s the song that made me really remember her name
There was so much heart in the way she sang
It’s among my favorites to this day
It’s a real shame songs like that
hardly get radio play
By: J.N.R Dutton
Tennessee (Micro-Poetry)
His heart’s down in Jacksonville,
but his soul’s in Tennessee
That’s where he’s always felt
that he was born to be
By: J.N.R Dutton
New Poem
Sometimes I just don’t know
what to do or what to say
I still have my faith,
but it’s sometimes hard
For me to face some days
There’s an old song that talks about
Not knowing which way to pray,
Oh, I’ve been there,
but I’ve got to believe
That God knows my heart
and knows my prayers,
even the things
I can’t quite articulate
By: J.N.R Dutton
