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Premium Member The Rough Riders
The U.S. was fighting against Spain over their colonial policies with Cuba,
And Asist. Secretary of the Navy, Theodore Roosevelt resigned his position just to join...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: theodore roosevelt, history,
Form: Free verse



Mount Rushmore
I looked up at the mountain,
the result - I was in awe!
George, Teddy, Tom, and Abe,
were the faces, that I saw!

Faces carved in granite.
Fourteen years,...

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Categories: theodore roosevelt, history, tribute, , memorial,
Form: Rhyme
Wish
I wish I could have 
    seen Theodore Roosevelt 
Eugene Debs, Calvin Coolidge
    speak their minds
I wish I could...

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Categories: theodore roosevelt, memory, time, time, travel,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Wish
I wish I could have 
     seen and heard Theodore Roosevelt , 
Eugene Debs and Calvin Coolidge 
   ...

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Categories: theodore roosevelt, fantasy, imagination, science fiction,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Theodore Rooselvet
In the historical archives, many trails have led to
The making of a legend, those born with the pioneer spirit
Of individuality, bred deeply within their soul.
Such...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: theodore roosevelt, character, history, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Dinner At the White House
Dinner at the White House

Theodore Roosevelt a robust, Republican president
had to Booker T. Washington a dinner invite sent.
Roosevelt was progressive for his day
and the segregated...

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Categories: theodore roosevelt, history,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Mount Rushmore, Carved In Stone
Mount Rushmore; Carved In Stone

From deep within the earth’s crust,
An orogeny pushes
The batholith upwards
To become ‘The Shrine of Democracy,’
Of weathered presidential faces
Chiseled in rock in...

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Categories: theodore roosevelt, america, education, history, inspiration,
Form: Verse
American Beauty
We often hear America the 
Beautiful being played 
somewhere…

The Bald Eagle is the national 
symbol of the United States…

There are many monuments 
and memorials that...

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Categories: theodore roosevelt, war, , memorial,
Form: Verse
Shangrila Is Vanishing
THE DREAM HAS BEEN
LOST.

SHANGRILA IS
VANISHING.

LOOKING OUT ON THE
NATURAL LANDSCAPE,

THE TAKERS ARE
DESTROYING THE LAND.

ONE BY ONE, THE
GREED TAKES OVER,

BLINDING THEM FROM
CARE TAKING MOTHER
EARTH.

GREED HAS NO
BOUNDARIES,

NO CONSCIOUSNESS.

WE...

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Categories: theodore roosevelt, earth, earth day,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Old Four Eyes
He wore wire rimmed glasses
Weird looking clothes
Had a fine rig for his horse
Passing through I suppose

But I learned from a friend
He was out here to...

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Categories: theodore roosevelt, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Roosevelt Elk My Favorite Animal In the Wild
I love to sit and watch the Roosevelt Elk for hours.  The Roosevelt Elk named for Theodore Roosevelt, it's my favorite animal in the...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: theodore roosevelt, animal, nature,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Our Political Divide
Our Political Divide
Miracle Man Opinion
6/17/2022

Each time a problem, of any kind, rears its head,
the establishment quickly looks for someone to blame.
Efforts should be directed toward...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: theodore roosevelt, how i feel, political,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member In Spirit
In Spirit Haiku

all Americans
story tellers dream catchers~
drum circle homage

Other

First in war—First in peace            ...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: theodore roosevelt, appreciation, presidents day,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Teddy Bears
Do you know why they're called “Teddy Bears”
After Theodore Roosevelt, because Teddy cared
A captured bear, he refused to kill
A kindness remembered still
Quite “unsportsmanlike” he was...

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Categories: theodore roosevelt, history,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Twisting Tale of An Avian Apparition
"The discrepancies are many, the dalliances are few,
both pitched against one dynamic, lifelong achievement"

Poking through the woods of the Mill Grove Audubon Estate,
suddenly came upon...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: theodore roosevelt, america, appreciation, art, bird,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Shattered Sighs