Best Hero Worship Poems

I want to respond
to the retired Marine
who watched Democratic Congressional Leaders
during the State of our crippled Union event,
disappointed at how their patriotism,
their loyalty to sacred sacrifices of soldiers
appears too tepid,
jaded,
ungrateful
as compared to more thunderous enthusiastic applause
and standing ovations of Republican Leaders.

I have noticed this too
both...

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Steve Säid
None so brave
Did on so many occasions 
save
Me from the bullies
Who
For far too many
Their school days ruin

Steve Säid
Jet black hair swept back
Coffee coloured skin
Immaculate

Steve Säid
How the girls did swoon
Oh,  how I wished I could have been like you

Ray Moody...

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Grandpa Francesco Proia,
from Caserta, Italia,
a clever stowaway 
in the bowels of the ship
bringing him to Ellis Island,
Feb. 4, 1905.
Gruff ways,
often snarling a guttural “Huh,”
a lack of English,
never-ending hand gestures,
made me fearful of him.
But awestruck I was
with the romantic notion
of his stowing away.
Bootlegging homemade vino
during Prohibition...

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