Bruce Lee
(A Tribute in Dream and Shadow)
I was not there when death closed your eyes,
But I saw you on the great screen of the world.
In dreamland, twice you walked toward me—
your steps were not of flesh,
but of spirit dressed in fire.
The first time I beheld Enter the Dragon,
I knew you were not merely a man—
your body
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Categories:
bruce, beauty, blessing, celebration, cheer
Form: Free verse
Master Kung Fu Within An Hour
I have always been a fan of Kung Fu and Brue Lee
I so wanted to Learn the art and looked around for lessons
But although I travelled far and wide I found none not one for me
Disheartened that instead of becoming a master
As I had dreamed about it since childhood
It was a complete disaster
Then one day
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Categories:
bruce, crazy,
Form: Rhyme
Games Not To End In Death
Don’t start a game ending in death,
Something there: forfeiture of breath!
Don’t mind Superstar Bruce Lee,
His Game of Death Kung Fu we see.
Next, the player lodged in some heath,
To The Living Death: Living Threat!”
Don’t think of a game marked by risk.
The sort guys start and taste the whisk
“You’re a rogue who’d begun to frisk:
You were breathing
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Categories:
bruce, cry, death, violence, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Bruce the Goose
I’m Bruce the goose
And fly with geese
I follow the rules
In forming V’s
And being a goose
Sometimes I lead
Then play caboose
To lessen breeze
Yet I faltered
Their perfect V’s
When I altered
Their masterpiece
I figured we’d
Fly much better
If we proceed
With a new letter
Seen from below
Instead of V’s
Our flight would show
F’s, R’s, or D’s
I got our flock
To fly an H
As the earth
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Categories:
bruce, bird, funny, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
The Boss Aka Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
The boss aka Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen
born at Monmouth Medical Center
in Long Branch, New Jersey,
on September 23, 1949.
His nationalities include hodgepodge
of Dutch, Irish, and Italian descent.
He grew up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey.
I dedicate the following poem
to aforementioned musician,
whose figurative guitar finger
kept on
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Categories:
bruce, 12th grade, age, america,
Form: Free verse
During the Job Interview, I Was Worried the Interviewer Hadn'T Heard Fire By Bruce Springsteen
his nose was distracting
but so was mine
i listened to it ; in the car on the way
there
the bass was in my brain
what if he'd never heard it?
the questions kept coming
questions about
stuff
thinking about the book of judges
i saw paintings
i followed him home
hid beneath the window pane
but heard nothing
i didn't get the job
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Categories:
bruce, 6th grade, art,
Form: Free verse
Clerihew Bruce
Poet& hymnist Michael Bruce
whose verse was rarely obtuse
In many ways a 'Keats in padallel'
dying too yoing of consumption a well
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Categories:
bruce, people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew
Going All Bruce Lee
"Going All Bruce Lee"
It’s like holding water
in your hands.
they say, be like water
as if on the drop,
the turn of H20 on tap,
one can go all Bruce Lee.
he was rather gung-ho;
but the subliminal message
he projected, without malice
in his lithe fluidity
brought on dreamy visions
of going all soft
and compliant.
one might
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Categories:
bruce, dark, imagery, muse,
Form: Narrative
Clerihew Bruce
Michael Bruce was poet so free
dying too soon with TB
Best known for ' Ode to the Cuckoo'
perhaps 'Lochleven' the best in view
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Categories:
bruce, people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew
I Am Waiting - - - Acknowledging Bruce Pascoe and His Book Dark Emu
I am waiting
For the colonists’ offspring
To see.
See what’s already there.
Been there decades,
hundreds and thousands of years.
Brewarrina. Birrngi-Bream.
Condah. Tuupuurn-Galaxis.
Bolac. Smoked eels.
Curly Mitchell Grass.
Nodding Greenhoods.
Yam Daisy-Murnong.
Budj Bim.
World Heritage.
Right here!
Dark Emu.
Read it.
Grasp the future.
Don’t wait.
Act.
Thrive.
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Categories:
bruce, discrimination, prejudice, racism, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Memorial:Cousin Bruce, Porsche Race Car Driver
He dreamt of car races and our sunny California beaches.
Of tanned women playing volleyball. Yes, all were within his vibrant reach.
Porsche-mania, though was his all.
Some talk endlessly of dreams coming true, but Bruce, followed them. He
packed up his things and left his freezing Chicago neighborhood.
Blond, tall, amenable with the most beautiful eyes of hypnotic blue.
My cousin, Bruce, so
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Categories:
bruce, cousin, memorial, thanks, tribute,
Form: Prose Poetry
Brutal Bruce
Bruce was a hard taskmaster
Who ordered his staff to work faster
The faster they went
Bruce would not relent
Causing a major disaster
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Categories:
bruce, 10th grade,
Form: Limerick
The Great Bruce Lee
The Bruce Lee’s days was a kun fu stage. His fighting style lasted for quite a while. His hits and kicks was used with his slashing sticks. As he screams and screams, he takes over his dragon dreams. Did you know that he was a fantastic dancer with a tad touch from a bee’s
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Categories:
bruce, blessing, god, love, motivation,
Form: Rhyme
In Memoriam: Cousin Bruce
Beneath this green sod, lies
my Cousin Bruce.
It's true, his mother called him
'Silly Goose.'
Oh, that Nordic DNA, those
gorgeous blue eyes, and sense
of humor.
A skier and a Porsche race car
driver, he grew up to be.
Always filled with humor and
a genuine love for humanity.
Leukemia took his life at forty.
He serves God now, in grateful
and glowing, angelic glory.
July 10,
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Categories:
bruce, cousin, death, memory, ,
Form: Epitaph
Bruce Trail
Friends from the Lutheran church got together,
We decided to hike on the Bruce Trail,
i walked with my friend Axel,
We were friends along the trail and we were completely quiet.
Traveled on the rugged terrain,
The scenery was beautiful.
He is very athletic and handsome,
i enjoyed walking very much.
His parents and my parents were good friends,
We used to
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Categories:
bruce, appreciation, blessing, environment, friendship,
Form: Free verse
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