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Bernstein Poems - Poems about Bernstein

Premium Member When Summer Comes Along
..."Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June." Al Bernstein June’s moon illumines with gold light in a sapphire sky. It’s as clear to me as a cloudless night summertime is ni......

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Categories: bernstein, summer,
Form: Rhyme
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: bernstein, art,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Maestro
...In the heart of melodies, a a luminary arose, Leonard Bernstein, whose brilliance still grows. A maestro with a baton, a poet with a score, In his music, he found what life yearned for. ......

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Categories: bernstein, music,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member SCHOOL BUS FIGHT: true life
...If i remember correctly: My philosophy was Don't react unless Necessary. The school day was over. The ride home began normally. (Corrections made In this poem) Then the School bus Bully beg......

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Categories: bernstein, allusion,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member My Time With An Oscar Winner
...Pangiota’s Personal Meeting with Oscar Winner, George Chakiris of “West Side Story”…. 1961 You were alarmingly affable and delightful. Accepting, and so very, very sweet, To have a special-on......

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Categories: bernstein, courage, fun, joy, memory,
Form: Quatrain



Name That Tune
...The chatter of small birds frame a window of light. My kettle is coughing; soon its shrill whistle will startle me, even though I know exactly when it will erupt. Two pelicans have been sighted i......

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Categories: bernstein, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ny Ny -- the Road In the Fork
...New York, New York, the road in the fork of the events, the places and folks who've buttered the pork Like Rockefeller, Moynihan and Andrew Cuomo Frank Sinatra, Louie Armstrong, John Len......

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Categories: bernstein, film, music, new york,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Happening 27 Ear Candy
...hop skip jive,jump run toward the sound: be alive glide slide turn stop and reflect Inspired by YouTube clip of Bernstein Magnificent Seven theme......

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Categories: bernstein, music,
Form: Verse
Double Tap
... News broadcast: Bad news from the Afghan front lines, an Army lance corporal got killed from Battalion 5, company 9 Soldier Bill James Medlark, affectionately known as Billy the Kid S......

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Categories: bernstein, grave, grief, loss, military,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Jeweler's Lathe
...THE JEWELER’S LATHE Summer’s last rose After many admiring morning visits And with nature’s rusty brown and gold Surrounding, drawing comparison, Becomes even more pink and beautiful Being......

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Categories: bernstein, beauty,
Form: Free verse
West Side Story
...Since “West Side Story” hit the stage, No show could quite compare. Such music, lyrics, dances, plot Are magical and rare. The gorgeous tunes you can’t forget Are Bernstein at his best And So......

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Categories: bernstein, music,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Symphony
...SYMPHONY Searching the audience Young and old in rapt attention Maestro, Bernstein, has come on stage Players have done their final warm up House lights are dimmed Only the foots and high spo......

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Categories: bernstein, music,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Bernstein Visits
...Bernstein Visits by Odin Roark Bernstein-infused reverie Unexpected connections Dissonance merging Like Central Park Pathways disappearing Reappearing Amidst boulder and street lam......

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Categories: bernstein, music,
Form: Free verse
The Internal Dying of Benjamin Tippett
...No Maria - when a Bernstein motif lingers. No rosary beads - they'll simply slip through bourbon-stained fingers. God carved the seven continents, with skillful guise, and Puccini cries. Ad......

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Categories: bernstein, on writing and words
Form: Rhyme
Andean Peaks/ Andengipfel/ Picos De Los Andes
...Mountains glow like amber As being lit by an eternal fire The sun sets slowly Andean peaks embedded in clouds Shadows spread on ancient sands Berge glühen wie Bernstein Wie durch ein......

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Categories: bernstein, nature
Form: Tanka

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