Best Tv Poems

Identify an elephant
And I will shout, “Hooray!”
For you’re so smart you could be
Leader of the U.S.A.

Another test to prove your worth?
Repeat this after me – 
Five words: they’re “Person, Woman, Man”
Then “Camera” and “T.V.”

It’s comforting to know we’re led
By one with an I.Q.
That helps him...

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Boxed in prize-fighter
Spinning punches for a sold-out crowd
Tubes and tubes

Run chain for miles, rust spots baring
Stark, empty Jews
Playing corn in a field, as
Nazi golems keep track of the moves.

A dusty field lying naked and bruised
Soaking a fever 
Like a garden patch, mid-Sundayafternoon.
A mindless hum and...

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Star strung
like Bette Davis Sundays
marathon watching 
and sitting in tears
Wrestling emotions
which calm and confuse us
Confound us and move us
beyond golden years
Broken
like black and white vision
fuzzy and stationed
with grey rabbit ears
Lost in commotion
which break and betray us
which bullet gun lays us
compounding our fears....

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From every side of a culture filled with "pop"
I could flip through five thousand channels non-stop
Surfing through waves of Pepsi and Spears
wading through starlets priming in mirrors

Oh, Oh!! Its Paris!  Never more substantial things to see
I hope her new BFF is Britney, or Whitney...or...

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TV
It is a strange country Portugal
You switch on the Tv, and there 
are song and dance
From different districts
The formula is always the same someone a tune
People are familiar too, and there are two dancing girls
Moving about which appears unrehearsed
However, this doesn’t matter  
They are...

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TV has captured me fully today. 
I am not struggling. 
Sophie dog is loving it. 
Peapod snuggled in our dual Lazy Boy heaven.

Bag of salty chips and tissues at arm’s reach. 
I give Sophie gentle pats 
Wondering if she notices 
Her snores are loud 

Lulling...

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The kids put the program guide back on 
Each station had way too much crap on
Then mum said hey kids
Watch one of dad’s vids
And soon Tim said Mum, what’s a strap on?...

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It was our sixth move.
We had been married three years.
My husband is always dissatisfied.
Thus we are perpetually moving.

He had this great idea.
It would be faster if I stood on the sidewalk
He would throw the things from the top floor 
And I could catch them.

He is...

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I sit on my chair and travel the world
I turn off my TV 
And cry...

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I am sitting inside my smart TV set 
with my wireless remote control 
and I can’t seem to get my wireless remote control 
to work for me
can someone out there 
please keep on  changing the channels for me 
to something else...

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ABC Afterschool Special
was my favorite program as kid
when it was on I never hid
at that young age I was gentle
after high school heavy metal
television has been my life
enjoy watching it with the wife
we have even watched a rental

In navy wasn’t much TV
I was keeping busy...

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Law Passed
    Still Loud...

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If I was Auntie Mame, I would be excited about everything.
Kicking up fun wherever I am invited.
Even places I’m not, but everywhere being the zing.
Bringing people together, making them united.


I would be like giant puppies, leaping into lap places,
Sure I am welcome, not aware if...

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George Jetson was the last one in Spacely’s office that day.
When he saw his family he yelled “Hip! Hip! Hooray!”
Their TV show made famous by Hannah Barbara and TV too 
I watched them every Saturday morning in the sixties. How about you?...

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For My Daddy, With Infinite Love, Quarters & Innings
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