Winter Thoughts of Ann Rutledge
...These are poems about Ann Rutledge and her romantic relationship with Abraham Lincoln.
Winter Thoughts of Ann Rutledge
by Michael R. Burch
Winter was not easy,
nor would the spring return.
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Categories:
biographers, history, lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme
Maybe It Was Eleanor
...Ever wonder where big ideas come from?
Memories of FDR
from newsreel clips -
a lion-headed striking man
with rakish grin,
jaw jutting proudly,
signature cigarette holder
clenched in his tee...
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Categories:
biographers, feelings, history, international, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Black Ops
...Black Ops
Tex Lester and his sidekick Lumpy Bascom
wiggled down the arroyo on their bellies
to better observe a latifundista trouble spot
too hot to touch so they tap danced instead
Lumpy gra...
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Categories:
biographers, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Mercy From the Memory of Multitudes -
...Let them say I was a simple, stubborn person,
hypersensative or insensative, a dispenser of partial justice,
a person of particular patience,
may those who encountered me in moments of bliss or ...
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Categories:
biographers, atheist, happiness, introspection, me,
Form: Epitaph
W-Marilyn Monroe- a Golden Lotus In Dull Grave
...The new book “Fragments” refresh the
The image of larger-than-life American.
The “fragments” do ignite many questions
Of what turns a human being into a legend.
Personal excellence, exceptional ...
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Categories:
biographers, life,
Form: Free verse
Societies Bedrock
...Often mocked as stupid
I am always faced with
the idea i am missing
something worth knowing.
I go to work. I do my job.
Preached to standards higher
than I can conceive,
I am everywhere and...
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Categories:
biographers, allegory, introspection, people,
Form: Free verse