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...

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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...

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>I am not a keen fan of football, although I  did play for my team when in the army, I played left outside, sorry...

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Refreshing feel of identifying with music in my life,

The mother’s voice still echoes sweet in all life’s strife’s.

She taught me to walk, run, dance and...

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Hereupon
I hear a song
Hereunto I embrace the near of dawn
Hereunder I ponder long
Herewith birds to sing the strong

Heroic verse
I'm a hero
I don't need to rehearse...

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Disappointment


My father's signature has been forged for I know his hand
Greed for squandering have made you fall to your lowest ebb
My temples blasted at the...

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Red checkered carpet and mahogany wood dominate
Guinness, beer and wine stand politely 
Reflective 
The eclectic gathering of minds and smiles
Litter the room as left over...

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Captain America
is looking flagpole beautiful
in his wavy red, white and blue 
body-fitting uniform
But, Manifest Destiny hero worship
don’t even come close
to his citizens A-love for the...

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So Thou May'st Shake 
the Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches to Those in Need

"By the hour the winner crosses the finish line, she looks like...

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I'm at the mall
waiting for my new lenses
to find their inside home
in my old outside frames,

Hopefully
not like new wine
in old 
opaque skins.

I try to engage
with...

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Romantic overtures
like gaudy butterflies 
kissing all blooms 
that come their way,
teasing me, haunting me,
flirting with me
and playing havoc 
with my feelings
 
Are you really harmless?
Is...

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waltz and sing

1-19-'17

waltz me to the darkened room,
where the things happen that never they let you know,
waltz me there with cutthroat and mistletoe,
let me find...

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Partners in Prose

I am addicted to the drug
of writing poetry with you
for we were destined to create
our stressed out syllables to mate 
collaborating with such...

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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...

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Lately i have been studiously going
over and delving into John Lennon's 
back catalogue of work

And what I learned and took from it
from it is this

It...

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