• Happy Birthday Poem for Willie Nelson at 80

    Terry Roland Posted On April 30, 2013
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    To the Gypsy for Willie 20 years later

                   When you step off the bus
                   your slow, easy movement
                   gifts my mind with open desert scenes
                   cactus, tequila and rain after a dry summer day
                   you move through the crowd like a honky-tonk king
                   dispatched from some smokey sawdust bar
                   funny how time has slipped into the lines on your face.
                   Flashbulbs, reaching arms, autograph hounds surround
                   the cowboy st. nick,  they shake around you
                   you remain still and move into
                   the eye of my hurricane life.
                   As I shake your hand
                   I feel the leather of your skin
                   I mention my texas homeland
                   your eyes spark stardust
                   you smile  ask my name
                   (funny how time slips)
                   your eyes pierce soul-deep
                   cut through my fan-embarrassed modesty.
     
                   Later deep in the night
                   I will sleep
                   with dreams of whiskey rivers
                   and a tequila grin.
     

     




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