Caren Krutsinger Poet Free verse

Cher Is My Favorite Artist

Cher, why do I love you? Is it your dancing? Your acting?
Is it your singing? The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour?
Thirty million viewers a week cannot be wrong.
Gypsy, Tramps and Thieves is one of my all-time favorite songs
But she has to be sung by you to elicit full power.

Cher, you are so beautiful in Bob Mackie’s costumes.
I can close my eyes and see the Indian headdress on you
With your sweet flat belly button showing. 
And your all powerful dancing eyes as you made fun of Sonny.

Mask, The Witches of Eastwick and Silkwood are favorites with me
Because you were in there, showing your vulnerabilities, being yourself.
You have won a Grammy, an Emmy and an academy award.
The people love you, and I am one of them. You showed us what a woman can do.

Cher, you are the only artist to have a number one single 
On the Billboard charts in six consecutive decades.  
Your philanthropic efforts and social activism 
Are icing on the cake that is you, Cher. 


Written 11-4-2019
Contest: Your Favorite Artist
Sponsor: Chantelle Anne Cooke

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Anne-Lise Andresen November 27, 2019 at 11:16 AM - Hi Caren, congratulations on your great winning poem :) - hugs // Anne-Lise :)

Brenda Chiri November 26, 2019 at 9:23 PM Caren here to congratulate you on your placement! I love Cher! I every time I think of her I think of the show sonny and Cheri and I want to throw my head back like she does!;) hah! Love this!;) Caren Krutsinger November 27, 2019 at 2:46 AM I love everything about her. She entertained me so much when we lived in Michigan - 14 hours away from our families, and I was only 19.

Rhona Mcferran November 4, 2019 at 11:33 PM I adore Cher, too. Our radio station plays 'Dark Lady' and 'Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves' a lot and I love it! Did you ever see Mermaids? It cracked me up how her character was an utterly glamorous badass who only knew how to make kooky cocktail-party appetizers, so that's all she fed her kids! ;D Caren Krutsinger November 4, 2019 at 11:43 PM I liked mermaids also. I like everything about Cher.