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Dealey Plaza, are you keeping right on the still unresolved Elm street?
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I had a cat, a large one
I thought I loved the cat
The cat thought he loved me too!

Then, one day,
They took the cat away
The cat, with the bassinet, the little furry presence
And Sameeha......

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Categories: oswald, absence, anxiety, repetition,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beginning of the Downfall
...I was a senior in high school and I still remember
That Friday afternoon in late November
Early dismissal after saying a prayer
Disbelief and sadness filling the air

He was a man with vision an......

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Categories: oswald, history, high school,
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 was paid
by the blood......

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© Bob Shank  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oswald, introspection, life, , western,
Form: Free verse

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Everything Is Not As It Seems
...Back in '63,
I remember vividly,
only 6 years old,
and watching our
black and white tv,
showing Lee Harvey Oswald
being escorted down the hall,
handcuffed and under arrest,
when out of the bl......

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Categories: oswald, allusion, america, remember, ,
Form: Light Verse
Proven
...today it has been proven that our justice system does'nt represent justice. it just 
fixes things the way they want things to be fixed. today a murderer was judged not 
guilty and will soon walk fr......

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Categories: oswald, allegorytoday,
Form:
History Lesson
...HISTORY LESSON

I.

Sweet Joe McCarthy who will fill your shoes
Keeping down the reds and making them sing the blues
Your spirit lives on in these modern days
Teaching us to hate in many diffe......

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Categories: oswald, political, life,
Form: Free verse



1963
...I wear a veil of iron mesh,
it sheilds me from sensation,
it's like the one that Jackie wore
after Jack's assassination.

I was just a youngster then,
but, deep inside, I knew,
that with that ......

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Categories: oswald, angst, childhood, death, historyworld,
Form: Rhyme
To Lee Harvey Oswald, My Lover
...Fire
Flames – destroying everything –
Flames – I felt their heat –
The whirling world – it cannot stand—
In fevered circuit melts.

Those flames traverse
Throughout my bones,
Rage, hot, acros......

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Categories: oswald, history, introspection, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Just a Vet'Ran - Cobwebs Turning Into Dust
...Just a vet'ran - Cobwebs turning into dust

       He's a teen out of the 60's - now wrinkled on his brow.
 Did not need to be drafted --  woulda' signed up anyhow
  'Cause He grew up with Kenned......

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© Ken Hayden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oswald, betrayal, death of a
Form: Ode
If You Could Change World History
...If you could change World History

If you could alter World History,
What would you change and why.
Choose with care and astuteness,
Or someone that lived, might die.

Edward John Smith has fa......

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© Kevin Shaw  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oswald, change, death, history, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Truthbomb
...Natural resources plundered worldwide
Everyone's a suspect
Watching us and all we do

Working our fingers to the bone until the day we die
One world government the ultimate plan
Rights to free ......

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Categories: oswald, life, political, social, world,
Form: Acrostic
Marco Rubio
...Marco Rubio
not many know he's the son of Jack Rubio
and who was he?
the guy who offed Oswald between luncheon and tea.......

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Categories: oswald, absence,
Form: Clerihew
Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse Contest
...Winnie the pooh is an icon
A mascot for a Canadian brigade
Named after the a lieutenants home
With the name of Winnipeg I heard

Mickey Mouse is an endearing fellow
To replace Oswald the lucky rabbit......

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Categories: oswald, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Conspiracy Theories
...Conspiracy theories are nothing new
 I'm sure you know a few
 But they can take you down a dark maze
 And used by politicians to manipulate you

 The moon landing was said to be fake
 With wind......

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oswald, crazy, people,
Form: Free verse
Can a Historian Explain This
...Lincoln elected to Congress in 1846
Kennedy elected to Congress in 1946 
Lincoln elected President in 1860
Kennedy elected President in 1960 
Lincoln's secretary named Kennedy 
Kennedy's Secreta......

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Categories: oswald, history, mystery, political,
Form: Free verse

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