Best Indianapolis Poems

It was in July of 1945 
  And the USS Indianapolis
Had a crew of nearly 12 hundred alive
  But a Japanese sub fired...

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The date is twenty six July,nineteen hundred forty five
soon, only three hundred seventeen would be alive
Eleven hundred ninety six of you assigned 
eight hundred seventy...

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Indianapolis

Look around
What is it that you see?
Is it the different under tones of grey hues
coming from the tall cement and steel that towers around you
or...

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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...

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My Three Kenyan Friends
I met them this weekend at a friend’s house in Indianapolis
The sweetest siblings you would ever want to meet
Blessed by the presence...

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Ode To Wayne Gretzky

We all carry the same genes
and look how different we turn out;
I honed my skills to playing hockey
and look how far I’ve...

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At the age 23 I struggled with my horrible addiction of heroin I had tried to stop but its not easy. Going almost four years...

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Have Only Just Begun

I’ve sailed the Atlantic Ocean,
Swam the seven seas.
Lived out in the wilderness,
Made a home from the trees.

I’ve climbed Mt. Everest,
Skied down the...

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Indianapolis welcomes you.
Navigate, find your place, sailing through
synthetic waterway just for fun.
Off’ring journeys with anecdotes,
carriages, kayaks and pedal boats
worthwhile way to enjoy snow or sun.

We'll...

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I once traveled around the U. S. on a Greyhound bus,
My wife thought I was crazy, but she made little fuss,
It was, by far, the...

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Though still as loving, still as kind and gentle, still as beautiful as they were in days of yore…
today’s grandmas are a different breed than...

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Stepping backwards into our future,
blowing into the bag of our achievements.
Fabric stretching reality; ready to burst

Indianapolis track of progression.
Conscience, hard wired from the system
and morality,...

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My dear Louisiana residents of now and the past,
It is my massive pleasure in,
Saying that our mission has been accomplished.
Seeing our spectacular Saints marching in,
In...

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Good legacy is one of a kind treasure
That will last for generations
With the bucket of love we all share
Shall remain forever

We listened with our hearts,...

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Systematically I work as I go through each and every room
With my invisible hyssop branch I paint
I paint the Lamb’s sacrificial blood over each and...

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