Today's word, HAGGARD, was given to me by my writer friend, Julie Rowan-Zoch on April 4th and Merle Haggard passed away two days later! Kind of eerie!! So, I took a departure from my funny, lighthearted poems to write a short tribute to Merle Haggard. In all honestly, I'm not really a country fan, so I'm only familiar with a couple of his songs. One I really like is Sing Me Back Home!
Sing Me Back Home
On April 6th, Merle
Haggard
left this earthly
world.
For years he sang and
swaggered;
his melodies
unfurled.
He entertained the
nation
as he sang his famous
tunes.
and caused a big
sensation
with his twangy country
croons.
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