Best Illustrators Poems

We have designated drivers and designated hitters
But where are the designated cowboys? 
The designated artists?
The designated illustrators? 
The designated astronauts?  
The designated dancers?

Who decides?
Is it the child or a parent? 
A mentor? A committee? A judge?
Who gets to designate me?  
Will they designate...

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Heaven to each of us will be something different.
Artists will find paint brushes, easels, canvases, and glitter paint.
Musicians will discover instruments not invented yet on earth.
Scientists will land in a lab with like-minded white coats.

Romance writers will wake up to the fragrance of lilacs and...

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ACCEPTANCE SPEECH


I would like to thank all my readers and fans for supporting me and making this award I received so meaningful. I would like to thank PoetySoup and the poetic academy for all their accolades. I wish to thank my ex wives, my numerous...

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paths lined by beautifully written word
to transport you into an unknown world
or relish while tethered to where you are
the fragrance and wind of lands afar

humor,history, fact or fiction housed under one roof
volumes of poetry for a dreamer and her muse
poets, authors,illustrators both alive and dead
beckoning...

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She was the baby-faced doll of the thirties for sure.
Her long eyelashes and adorable legs, not incredibly pure.
Max and Grim, her illustrators had the true scoop
On their lovely creation, Miss Betty Boop!

Her button nose wiggled, and she jiggled with happy
She danced around on the screen,...

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What’s wrong with a child creating
in comic book style their own villains,
and heroes armed with guns.  A n d  still the teachers teach
to be civilized you must not color

outside       the lines

as if all folk are m a...

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Dedicated to Stephen Mooser,

 President of the internation  
Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, 
Los Angeles, California

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My books live somewhere 

in distant California,

in city with the beautiful name «Los Angeles».

I sent them there to unfamiliar Mr. Mooser.

Now he is their new father.

I...

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