Ailey Poems - Poems about Ailey

The Kennedy Center

...The Kennedy Center is known to the world For honoring those in the arts – From Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Astaire, Whose talents top all of the charts. Sinatra, Gene Kelly, L. Bernstein, Ka......

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Categories: ailey, art,
Form: Rhyme

The Presidential Medal of Freedom

...Previous winners were Elie Wiesel, Mother Teresa, Bob Hope, Norman Rockwell, Rosa Parks, Walt Disney and a Pope*… B.B.King and Yo Yo Ma, Dylan and Pearl Bailey, Frank Sinatra, E.B. White, To......

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Categories: ailey, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme

Numbers In Uphill Letters

...[A cuppa with mademoiselle Fana Tesfagiorgis] I had just driven my ageless self into the Kaufmanns’ 1936–1939 Frank Lloyd Wright-constructed Pennsylvania getaway:Falling Water Mansion– In a 1......

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Categories: ailey, appreciation,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Laugh - Fives

...Moshe, Larry, Curly, Howls, cries, nyuks; Three silly comic stars: Smile, clown -- Cluck! Chico, Harpo, Benny, Berle, Moron grins, happy chins; Crazy nutty comic kooks: Funny jokes -- egads ......

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Categories: ailey, fun, humorous, nonsense, silly,
Form: Light Verse

The Bullet Tree - From a Neighborhood Child

...THE BULLET TREE No one knows how long the bullet has been lodged in the big old maple tree Mr. Ailey claims he knows but Mr. Ailey is an old old man No one till Teddy so far as we ......

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Categories: ailey, childhood, house, old, tree,
Form: Narrative

The Bullet Tree - From a Neighborhood Child

Categories: ailey, childhood, house, old, tree,
Form: Narrative