Best Hoffman Poems
Dustin HoffmanThe Graduate
Tootsie and Rain Man
which one you like the best?...
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Categories:
hoffman, character, nostalgia,
Form:
Questionku
The Sit Down Comedian-By Cheryl HoffmanHe's unlike the kind you see on stage,
who do stand up like their actors in a play,
instead he'll sit down and build and create,
while he and his quirky imagination go on a nutella date,
He conjures up animal's who build rockets,
or writes about belly lint or...
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Categories:
hoffman, birthday, fun,
Form:
Light Verse
Paraphrasing Hoffman"You measure democracy by the freedom it awards its dissidents,
and not the freedom it gives to its assimilated conformists."
- Abbie Hoffman
(but I'm paraphrasing him)....
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Categories:
hoffman, people, freedom,
Form:
Rhyme
A Requiem For the DovekeepersA Requiem for the Dovekeepers
We went walking through the orchard, toward terraces where ancient olive trees and huge, twisted grapevines grew.
The birds were cooing. I felt a pulse in my throat, remembering how I had waited for my prey in the wilderness, how they had...
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Categories:
hoffman, bereavement, betrayal, blessing, devotion,
Form:
Free verse