Best Newsman Poems

...Unique newsman Andy Rooney,
did not look like a George Clooney;
beetling brows grew too much hair,
verbalist extraordinaire.

Copyright, May 17, 2014
Faye Lanham Gibson......

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...Nostalgia and I 
sat waiting rain and more breeze
my wind chimes all sang.

As I rocked pines swayed
a summer wreath held bird nest
right on my front porch.

The honey inside
I sat alone loo......

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...A dog with a missing leg
Knocked down by a driver
Drove at dog speed
And barked away 

We have stopped to see
A group of people, too
The dog with a missing leg
And smoke from nearby hut

Th......

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...This is a anecdote about not taking things for granted....
Seeing how we often jump to conclusions based on wrong assumptions...

A top notched news photographer was in a mighty hurry...
He saw a......

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...Godzilla Dreams



My little dragon is growing up. I do believe he’s just had his first crush.
In his cave with a sign ‘To Enter, Beware’, are Godzilla posters everywhere.
And he talks about he......

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...A man came here to speak today,
students did not like him at all,
egged of by professors, quite enraged,
with no decency at all.
They claim we should ‘hear all sides,’
but when this man dared to......

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...We heard it over the radio 

We heard it over the radio and I don’t know if it’s true
It was today at the gathering by the village square
The chief had just bought new batteries so everyone was t......

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...Ploop Plop
I flopped down onto the black leather coach
Wee Snaw 
I inhaled deeply
Slowly i twisted my head to the right
The AT&T remote control lay blocked
Umph
An attempt to get the remote; I succed......

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...Dan, 

Dan is the man that tells all. 
He lets us know the world, 
is upside down, and turned around. 
He lets us know it is on fire in one place 
and flooding in another. 
Dan walks the beach......

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...Rhetoric! Over and over again, we hear
The same old arguments, year after year
Fooling around with mankind’s minds
You hide cleverly and can’t be found

The TV newsman reports, as they’re told
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...A Convict on the Loose

By Elton Camp

It was eight o’clock and we’d settled for the night
But little traffic was passing so our street was quiet
One of our favorite movies was just about to be......

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...How disappointed he must have felt,
when the epiphany rushed in like the first salty water 
of a tidal wave,
and he knew he loved this one,
that he had found her,
the one, 
that chosen girl,
b......

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...“Hit me, hit, me, hit me, pass…
One can loose money with poker fast!”

Skipping in line, the skipper plead,
“Move aside; let me pass ahead.”

The diner said, “I am not crass.
Cabbage gives me ......

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...*Image of Paul Simon SNL by Giphy.

Simple Simon

Simple Simon the blessed pieman,
Woke up fresh as the day began,
Busy cooking, his wife named Anne,
Made his breakfast in a saucep......

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...Should Remember Walter Cronkite
By Franklin Price
12/3/2016

Should remember Walter Cronkite
Most trusted newsman in the land
He told us what was happening
To help determine where to stand

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