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Premium Member John F Kennedy - Martin Luther King Jr - Robert F Kennedy and Donald Duck
it was the sixties
we were young
we were going to change the world
spin it like a basketball on our finger
take the three point shot 
win the...

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Categories: john f kennedy, philosophy,
Form: Free verse



John F Kennedy
 John F. Kennedy
1917-1963
The great 35th president of US
It wasn't really a success

He tried to stop the missile bases
There were lot of angry faces

When there...

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© Heeju Kim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: john f kennedy, death, history, patriotic, poetry,
Form: Epitaph
Premium Member Birth and Death
The sun and moon conceived a star
shooting through time and space
 born within the ocean
delivered upon its waves

while Beethoven's sonatas softly played 
nightly gales whispered...

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Categories: john f kennedy, adventure, life, lost love,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Our Liberty Blazing Soldiers
"...when power narrows the areas of man’s concern, 
poetry reminds him of the richness
and diversity of his existence...” 
--John F. Kennedy

~~~~~~~***~~~~~~~


Soldiers of our armed forces,
Iraq,...

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Categories: john f kennedy, adventure, dedication, history, life,
Form: Villanelle
America Wasn'T So Bad Back Then
We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the...

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Categories: john f kennedy, america,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Beneath the Sword of Damocles
Beneath the Sword of Damocles

As we nurse our nuclear nightmares
in a not to certain day
We are conjoined in common phobia
of madness or foul play.

Little children...

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Categories: john f kennedy, war,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member If I Had a Time Travel Machine
Get me inside quickly and as fast as you can, 
please turn the time travel dial to September 1963
Get me to a post office in...

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Categories: john f kennedy, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Angels Danced For Martin


From the grounds of the south during the sweltering summer 
of Negros in America*, came white violence and murder.  The 
suppression and degradation of...

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Categories: john f kennedy, character, freedom,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member America 101
When I was born in 1949, Harry Truman was the President of The United States.  Of course I do not personally remember him. ...

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Categories: john f kennedy, celebration, patriotic,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The 60's
The 60's
The look was penny loafers, bobby socks,
pleated skirts, button up shirts,
bell bottom pants and headbands
Flower children were also the era, 
Stood for peace and...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: john f kennedy, dance, fashion, life, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Merciful Majesty—make Misery End!
“…when power narrows the areas of man’s 
     concern, poetry reminds him of the richness 
     ...

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Categories: john f kennedy, forgiveness, history, introspection, peoplepoetry,
Form: Sonnet
Lets Be Civil
im awkwardly facing an officer, dont know what to expect
will we both jump the gun and start a civil unrest
will the tone of my skin...

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Categories: john f kennedy, america, anger, change, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
History's Sad Song
History's Sad Song (Revised)

throughout my life
I've heard many a sad song
relating to the lyrics
that seemed to play too long

way back during the Crusade
where religious debt...

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© Bob Shank  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: john f kennedy, introspection, life, , western,
Form: Free verse
Road
My acquaintance with poetry in general and the simplistic literary brilliance of Robert Frost in particular, came at a relatively early age. My mother would...

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Categories: john f kennedy, age, perspective, , cute,
Form: Bio
Premium Member All Is Not Lost
We are in a recession
Are we a bankrupt nation?
If that is true than why are athletes still getting paid millions!
There is so much blood spilled
Our...

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Categories: john f kennedy, faith, hope, inspirational, life,
Form: Rhyme

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