Best Cronkite Poems

...I would practice each day without satisfaction,
longing to capture the moon's oratory.
DeBussy, God, help me, I should say that I'm sorry!
Though my fingers were nimble, I'd lose concentration,
a......

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...The Great Escape - The Birds - Charade - The Fugitive, The Twilight Zone 
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World-
Civil rights, Viet Nam 
The Beatles begged to hold my hand

The day was young and so wa......

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...I'm bathed in the night, as it climbs through my window
While the music of moonlight softens the air
It dips, oh so softly, peeking gently with care, 
Into the room, to lighten the gloom
While a ......

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...
 It was a cultural revolution, while a world jumped to conclusions
 Of mini-skirts, and go-go boots, and psychedelic tensions
The flower child, would smile and sprout communal peaceful versio......

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... Continued from Part 1 

Matt Dillon chases Jack LaLane
Around a roller derby lane
I think I need some more cocaine,
So please don’t ever come back Shane

I try to walk another street......

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..."America's health care system
is neither healthy,
caring,
nor a system."
Walter Cronkite

An organic system,
an interdependent co-governing web
of relationships between communicating subsyste......

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...I Hate the News
By Franklin Price
02/02/2016

Just want to say, I hate the news.
Reporters drive me to more booze.
They spin the news as they see fit
It's hard to make some sense of it

They......

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...Some folks are misguided to sincerely believe
That what they hear on the news is fact, indeed,
I hope this poem will help you, friend, to relieve
That dreadful notion, for the “news” i......

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...Should Remember Walter Cronkite
By Franklin Price
12/3/2016

Should remember Walter Cronkite
Most trusted newsman in the land
He told us what was happening
To help determine where to stand

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...Joplin was to Southern Comfort,
  what Hendrix was to smack
Morrison was to masquerade,
  what Dylan never lacks

Woodstock was to 69,’
  what music was to time
Saigon was to those who stayed,......

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...Cronkite did the talking.
Nixon started walking.
Through the rabbit's ears 
we saw it all.
Windows down by cranking.
Kids still got a spanking.
Food stamps were on paper
not on cards.
Pryor t......

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...Events embedded in my mind—from the decade of 6-0,
Return to me as vivid now, as they were long ago.
I went to bed afraid at night, fearing missiles from the south.
Ears ringing from the bearded m......

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...Angel bars sissy bars and banana seats
The rolling stones what a cool beat

Cronkite 6pm news telling of Kennedys death
Just a young boy i really didnt understand yet

Mother would say you kids......

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...My Missing Muse

I have tried to write as of late,
but my mind has become a true blank slate.

My keyboard is bored and my ideas are bland.
I have to think of something grand.

Lately I lack ......

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