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Untitled - Jackson Pollock 1912-1956

They say a picture may paint a thousand words
but I can't read what he wrote
household paint poured onto a horizontal surface
ain't what I call works of note
splashed with no pre-planned end-result
for art's sake to me does not art make
known for his 'drip technique'
yes he was a drip and no mistake
yet a few of his spills

Categories: 1956, art, color, humorous, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme

Hand Outs 1956

Orphans line up

their brown shoes

have yet to learn

to be silent

Categories: 1956, poetry,
Form: Free verse

The Air of a Different Century

The Air of a Different Century
David J Walker

And to think
I remember days in 1956

Not that they mattered to anyone
As young as me 

Only that the sky was clear and
I breathed the air 
of different century 

where it rained on me 
in the fall

and the snow was pure and
fell on all who braved the 
winter storms

Categories: 1956, allegory,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Circa 1956

When the world was small
my heroes were big
living on a 12’’ screen
the telephone operator knew me by name
when the party line was open and free
on Tuesdays it was the bread man
on Wednesdays came meat
Friday mornings the Fuller Brush man rang twice
Saturdays were baseball, bleacher seats for a buck
and on Sunday to church on my bike
when

Categories: 1956, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

The Vinaceous Valentine 1956


The Vinaceous Valentine 1956
As Remembered: by Tom
2-24-2020

Nothing hurt more than perfidy of this friend,
I can still hear her words, “you are so uncouth.”
but it didn’t take too long for my heart to mend,
what rendered the pain, was that it wasn’t the truth.

How refined could either be at age sixteen
not old enough to avoid a tongue

Categories: 1956, girlfriend, valentines day,
Form: Lyric

Samuel Seymour 1956

SAMUEL SEYMOUR 1956

Concern for the man who fell out of the box, 
says this crackerjack kid, “someone help him.”
Only five years old, Samuel Seymour
would be the last surviving witness,
nine decades later, who saw the man
in the theater break a leg, not the good kind.
“I was scared to death,” says the old man, letting
the contestants on

Categories: 1956, history,
Form: Free verse

1956 Newport To Bermuda Race

1956 Newport to Bermuda Race

In June, 89 sailboats at midday
Left Newport and Narragansett Bay.

We're on the way in a 635 mile race
To Bermuda - a beautiful place.

Light winds on the first day out
Even sighted a large whale spout.

Next morning at day light
No other boats in sight.

As there were none we could find.
Are we ahead or

Categories: 1956, boat, night, race, scary,
Form: Rhyme

Anthony Bourdain 1956-2018 -

* Many years now since this very talented, very HUMAN guy left us … those holes never fill, and he is sorely missed. (This is a form I invented called “Tredicum Plus”. *

                   ~

my brother ...
you caught

Categories: 1956, appreciation, celebrity, life, wisdom,
Form: Free verse

The Class of 1956

Some promptly left and didn't return,
Some chose to stay with concern showing.
For a finer life perhaps the first did yearn,
All building lives as families were growing.

While additional left and later moved back,
Renewing friendships, letting memories churn.
Having tasted life the other side of the track,
Sporadically, for School Reunions, others return.

We've now grown older and some have

Categories: 1956, friendship, memory,
Form: Lyric

1956

I was turning ten and learning the tricks
The year was 1956
I remember that my mother cried
The day that Tommy Dorsey died
I still believed in Santa Claus
James Dean was a Rebel without a cause
Green Door was a rockin’ tune
Patty sang about the Allegheny Moon
Russia’s relation with Hungary thinned
Gogi Grant sang The Wayward Wind
Love was a many

Categories: 1956, history, nostalgiaheart, heart,
Form: Couplet