Best Legacies Poems

Senator Edward Kennedy introduced "The affordable health care act"!Barack Obama implemented"The affordable health care act"and had some "Legislative flack,but this "Affordable Health Act " was made "Law"and that is a fact!They tried to shut the "Law" down,and "The American People said that that was not...

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Ghosts in my mind, I feel your influence
And value your life and legacy.
I hear your voice through the years
And feel regret that you have gone,
That time and death separate us.

I see the need to perpetuate
Those beginnings which you held dear,
To collect the fragments of your...

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Our hist'ry books are filled with famous names
Brave men who sacrificed and persevered
Some men reach greatness simply playing games
While some find courage, challenging what's feared

To be remembered after one has died
A light that shines through centuries of dark
We hope our children bear our name with...

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Leave legacies of love and light,
fame and fortune is not worth the fight.

-Adeleke Adeite....

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Halls of steel and concrete, 
massive Cyclopean towers 
of immodesty where moguls
bask in gross extravagance. 

Children in neglect, 
souls with haggard faces, 
ekeing out their livelihoods 
with hopes and modest means.

Versions of prosperity;
the rich man pads his pockets while 
the poor man haunts his tenement,
struggling...

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Playing football earned me a concussion
   Basketball tore the cartilage in my knee
Running cross-country sprained me my ankle
   While boxing knocked the sense out of me

Throwing a curveball ruined my elbow
   Swimming lap after lap did 'fix' my shoulder
My...

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...for Hart Crane


Halls of steel and concrete, 
massive Cyclopean towers 
of immodesty where moguls
bask in gross extravagance. 

Children in neglect, 
souls with haggard faces, 
ekeing out their livelihoods 
with hopes and modest means.

Measures of prosperity;
the rich man pads his pockets while 
the poor man haunts...

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Legacies of October

Pinstripe domination 
Out of nowhere perfection
Pittsburgh’s unexpected celebration
The great Dodger rotation
Gibby’s game 1 animation
69 defies explanation
Green and gold covered the nation
The queen city was king during the second Nixon administration
Reggie’s single-handed ruination
Bean town’s 86 devastation
The heroic apparition
Atlanta’s autumn frustration
An eight decade delayed coronation...

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Mother died at the honorable age of one hundred and one
Born a Gemini, she died under a different constellation
So familiar to us, her old life was different from everyone
Without frills, pale pretences or any mental augmentation
Mother was real, and she understood what I never forgave
In...

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...for Hart Crane


Halls of steel and concrete, 
massive Cyclopean towers 
of immodesty where moguls
bask in gross extravagance. 

Children in neglect, 
souls with haggard faces, 
ekeing out their livelihoods 
with hopes and modest means.

Measures of prosperity;
the rich man pads his pockets while 
the poor man haunts...

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With bowed heads and fervent prayer
 we shed our tears with broken hearts
 in memory of those no longer here,
 those memories are now set far apart.
Names listed on the TV screen
 the familiar ones heard from another century,
 Benedict and Barbara Walters, 
 other...

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...for Hart Crane


Halls of steel and concrete, 
massive Cyclopean towers 
of immodesty where moguls
bask in gross extravagance. 

Children in neglect, 
souls with haggard faces, 
ekeing out their livelihoods 
with hopes and modest means.

Measures of prosperity;
the rich man pads his pockets while 
the poor man haunts...

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Take a moment, if you will
  to ponder the situation of government at will.
Representatives of the people they claim
 yet, individual indiscretions gain greater fame.
Racist ramblings dress a deep inner rage
 rise to the surface from pasts poorly displayed.
Whiteout and black face strayed
 openly...

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Pick up the picture,
Half are gone,
Deceased and gone,
I wish-
I could bring those eras back,
The eras of beloved ladies living,
True ladies of legacies,
Left us all behind,
Now onward we press....

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A Myriad of loving voices echo through my memories 
Ghosts of those who touched my soul
And gifted me their legacies
Along the way there has been reckless peril on my stormy seas
There was but one who Salvaged me 
Who saved me from my misery 
Anchored me...

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