Best Dennis Poems

His parents' worst nightmare that left them disheartened
is the sad tragic tale of Dennis Lloyd Martin

On a family outing at Cades Cove park
Dennis, his brother and some friends on a lark

Playing hide and go seek as they always had
well within sight of their grandpa and...

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Dennis the Menace is his Mother's bane!

   He drives his neighbor George Wilson insane!

      A saint

         He ain't

            But...

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our conversing
about artificial boulders
so long ago
agreeing the Japanese stones
far superior to all...

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One of the greatest coverups of Park Rangers and The FBI took place in
The Great Smokey Mountains National Park in Tennessee on June 14, 1969. It involved a six year old named Dennis Martin who was on vacation with his father and grandfather. William Martin...

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Dennis Cummings

1844-1920

To my friends of the 41st Infantry!

My men, my brave brothers from Wisconsin, are invited!

Invited RSVP to my domesticated, but dignified digs

On south Milton Street in Whittier town,

There, above the tracks of the Southern Pacific

There, surrounded by my better half’s tulips and pumpkins

There, surrounded...

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Back then, life for kids was harder that it should have been
They say that kids had rights too, but I don’t remember when

Back then, If their were child labor laws, they never told us
If labor laws for kids were broken, none made a fuss

Back then,...

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Dennis & Jong-un

Dennis meets the president of 
North Korea & says the guy is a
good guy…that is,
on a personal level,
he is a human being who likes 
basketball---
yet at 28, an age that Dennis has pointed out
repeatedly,
to be young &
unlike his father,
he is still vilified by...

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Back then, life for kids was harder than it should have been.
They say that kids had rights too, but I don’t remember when.

Back then, if there were child labor laws, they never told us.
If labor laws for kids were broken, none ever made a fuss.

Back...

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2000 miles is a long ways, and 50 plus years is a very long time.
It spells the time and space that have separated me and my two friends.
Back then, whether it was hay, ammonia, cowboys, sling shots, or rubber tires,
somewhere in the mix were my...

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Horn
         blows 
velvet
         mellow

Glistening dew 
                       litmus...

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USA MLB PLAYER
Cy Young Award winner.
Oakland A's # 43 
A's won AL Series 19&9
Baseball Hall of Famer

Funny, how we meet folks!!
          ....... 
Dennis, I only met on the phone,
several times.....
I was working for a Cable Company...

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Athol Fugard is a leading voice in theater of Africa
 will he condone silence about the street execution f George Floyd?

Dennis Brutus was being deported from USA in 1980s, from U. Penn
(I helped get him to speak against South Africa's Racist Constitution,
at Ohio University in...

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You, always searching.
                    Searching through the remains of dusty city archives
               That...

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A Salute To Dennis Deyoung

Styx is not the same without Dennis get in the mix
Paradise album in 81 was so very fun
Too much tim on his hands
Babe a timeless classic

now at 70 he hasn't lost his longevity 
although Styx is quite a mystery
thought it was...

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A seaman  called, "Octopus" Dennis
Was known to the girls  as a menace
A sign from Above
Predicted "True Love"
"But you gotta go out and play tennis!"...

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