Best Lbj Poems

Schools are closed, there is no mail
And stores hold special sales.
To honor our first president,
That’s what this day entails.

Though technically, our 16th prez
Is celebrated, too.
To make a Monday holiday,
That’s what they chose to do.

The 40-something other men
Who served the USA
As presidents were not awarded
Their own...

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The Boring Teacher

By Elton Camp

Coach Lindsey is an ignorant creep
Who puts all of his students to sleep

Sports is the only thing that he knows
Yet, into the history classroom he goes

He doesn’t know how people did live
And a coherent lecture he can’t give

He can’t tell one...

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It was a long and turbulent year
Beset with death, war and crime.
Oh! Where do we  journey from here?
Alas, a New Year begins its chimes.

Last January misfortune began
North Korea captured the Pueblo ship
While Americans soldiers died in Vietnam
The Hippies embraced the LSD trip.

Chaos and dissent...

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HRC and You and Me

Bill retired and did ride off into the dust
Return again we always knew he must
With Hillary wo happened to be trusty
Even though great shape not very busty.

Many experiences Hillary had been through
Yet still firm not changing point of view
With voice we...

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Forty-eight years ago
JFK died.
If you were living then,
You must have cried.

TV ran on and on – 
Pink hat and shots;
Oswald and Ruby
Connecting the dots.

Bloodstains on Jackie,
The LBJ pledge;
All of America
Sitting on edge.

John John saluted,
The widow in black.
Innocence ended
And never came back.

Each twenty-second
The month of November,
Those...

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The wife of LBJ, known to all as 'Ladybird'
    was famous for the following words
      'Plant a tree, a shrub, or a bush'

  She never dreamed they'd lead to
    two more Texans in...

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Our leaders who are Caucasians
On some previous occasions
Would A-bomb Japan
And Viet Nam hides tan
But hate all bias against Asians

Author's comment: Hate crime is always bad. Here's an idea for a political cartoon:

Frame 1: Truman and advisors celebrate the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with laughter...

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We have our whims with acronyms,
especially with our Presidents:
   Remember JFK and RFK?
   ~ They paved the way for LBJ.

'Course FDR started so much more--
   the AAA and the CCC
   the CWA and the FHA  ...

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It's really not that bad a place
Just a little run down is all
The paint's peeling due to factory defects
The  golf course needs work on the greens
Nine flags need replacing
Both fireplaces could stand pointing
The kitchen is small
But designed for one to cook
without walking a country...

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Fifty-odd years ago
JFK died.
If you were living then,
You must have cried.

TV ran on and on – 
Pink hat and shots;
Oswald and Ruby
Connecting the dots.

Bloodstains on Jackie,
The LBJ pledge;
All of America
Sitting on edge.

John John saluted,
The widow in black.
Innocence ended
And never came back.

Each twenty-second
The month of November,
Those...

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Close your eyes: Picture a long-ago time and place
   When life was lived at a much slower pace
Think Deep South, small towns or big cities
   Your lot in life there determined by race

Colored folks couldn't attend school with whites
  ...

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The Great Society has returned
  Its leader now not LBJ
But Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.
  His hair all white; his ideas frayed

It didn't work then, it won't work now
  'Coz it's not a matter of know-how
The old 'War on Poverty' needs be the...

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Watched Rachel Maddow with her studio show.

great studio show
her home we will get to know
on us she does grow

She seems to have been in
contact with someone who
had COVID so she will be
quarantining herself by
staying home and doing
her show there. Sad that
she will be gone for...

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Donald and Joe
  Ronnie and Jimmy

Harry and George
  Richard 'n Cal 'n Barack

JFK, LBJ and TR
  Like Pinocchio, they wished on a star

All made promises they didn't keep
  All made us laugh, cry and say bleep ~

Remember, please, that the office...

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things seen on book shelves
they are always interesting
part of person's life

on books we will prey
with Meacham went all the way
just like LBJ

while in pool we splashed
after we would become smashed
then in our beds crashed

weather cold or warm
when they would raise a big storm
mob began to...

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