Sailing Away with Dolly
written by: Anne Gruner
She sailed away so suddenly,
an island in the stream,
now singing for eternity,
the Country Music Queen.
She rose from nearly nothing
in the Smoky Mountain high.
Her poverty was crushing
yet her being touched the sky.
She gave away her millions
wherever her heart would lead,
and unlike politicians,
she wouldn’t make them plead.
We’ve always loved you, Dolly
and will miss you so so much.
The world’s a lot less jolly
without your golden touch.
Anne Gruner is a Pushcart-nominee whose poetry can be found in numerous print and on-line publications, including "Amsterdam Quarterly," "Beltway Poetry Quarterly," "Wayfarer Magazine," “New Verse News,” “Humans of the World,” "Spillwords," "Written Tales," Old Mountain Press Anthologies, and others. Her fiction and non-fiction has appeared in "Dogwood, a Journal of Poetry and Prose," Third Flatiron's "Rhapsody of the Spheres," "Persimmon Tree," "Constellations: Journal of Poetry and Fiction," "Hippocampus Magazine," and others.
Latest posts by Anne Gruner (see all)
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