Best Kilmer Poems

?I thought that I would never see
Another macho man like me.
Ex-green Beret and Airborne Ranger,
Who never shirked in face of danger.	
But that ancient myth was soon dissolved,
When my wife asked me to get involved,
And accompany her, one fine day,
In search for her new negligee.

Now stout...

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I think that I have never known
a tree as lovely as a poem.

A poem that in a single breath
infuses life, defying death

with words that move in stylish grace
and give emotion resting place.

A poem reflecting life and love
and faith, perhaps, in He above

who gave the world...

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I think that I shall never see
a beast as loathsome as a flea.

A flea whose hungry mouth consumes
all the blood that it exhumes.

A flea that gets into my hair
and makes me scratch 'til I am bare.

A flea that makes me itch all day
and irritates in...

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When I was yet in grade school, my teacher gave to me,
a task I thought most surely would be the death of me.
She ordered me to write a verse, in any style I chose,
I will tell you right up front that at her words I...

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Winter
..with apologies to Joyce Kilmer


I think that there shall never be
Another winter such as thee.

A winter in which snow didst fall
In depths to six and eight feet tall;

A winter Hugging frozen ground
Muffling all prayerful sound;

A winter icing Kilmer’s trees
Where now the robins slowly freeze;

Who would...

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For years I've tried to figure out
The tree Joyce Kilmer wrote about.
Was it an oak, or maybe elm?
What was it so appealed to him
That gives his simple poem so much clout?

He thought that he would never see a poem lovely as a tree,
Then, quick as...

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I think that I shall never see
As lovely a dichotomy --
Soul serene, secure in beauty,
Fearful, though, of social duty,
Thoughtful lover, unrequited
By your own predisposition,
Home alone with Truth united --
A modern metaphysician.

Passions rage; you arrange a truce
Between your sparrows and your snakes.
Soul-searching makes you a recluse,
Lost...

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When I think of a poem, "as lovely as a tree,"
I ponder what sacrifice was made for me.

More than lovely smooth white paper
on which to write poetry.

The bite to its bark must have caused pain,
slicing through wood-skin turned
so thin that I could write on it...

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(a parody of "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer)

I doubt that we shall ever see
A more handsome pair than you and me
Me, whose hungry mouth is pressed
Against your ample, perky breast
You look at me with sparkling eyes
And utter those sweet whispering sighs;
The tiara I gave you, you...

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I think that I
        shall never see, 
A poem as lovely
        as a tree,
The sun thus shine
        its countenance,
The tree whose gift,
  ...

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Because of Pneumonia, he couldn't survive.
Val Kilmer has died at the age of sixty-five.
He starred as Batman in "Batman Forever" thirty years ago.
In 2013, he starred in "Ghost Ghirls" and "Palo Alto".
In 2011, he starred in "Blood Out" and "Five Days Of War".
He was a...

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Alfred Joyce Kilmer Tribute ''Trees'' via rehash VIDEO presentation:

Alfred Joyce Kilmer, penned name, 'Joyce Kilmer,'
was killed by a sniper's bullet in WWI at 31 years old,
20   July   30,   1918. Joyce held a beautiful view of life
whereto, he wrote his...

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I’m your huckleberry
Always makes me smile
Since Val Kilmer used it in the move Tombstone

My husband and I used it over and over
The month after we saw the movie
Delighted us beyond any sane reason

To this day when I hear it
I have the same reaction
And I smile...

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