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FBI GONE BAD

...FBI ALAN KING FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION CHICAGO FIELD OFFICE I ALWAYS KNEW SOMETHING WAS OFF WITH ALAN I MEAN AFTER ALL HE WAS ACTUALLY WORKING FOR WANNABE MOBSTERS CIRO GARGANO WHO TRULY BELIE...

Categories: capote, allah,
Form: Lento

Breakfast At Tiffanys

...I watched “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” last night - we’re going to be reading Truman Capote’s book after the break and I wanted to start thinking about it. The movie rewrites Truman Capote’s story, turni...

Categories: capote, class, school, society, student,
Form: Free verse

Moonlight and Proses

...Storyteller weaves his tales
throughout my mind and heart.
He alchemies my leaden days
into golden thoughts.

We soar above the shrinking earth
on word-filled wings at night,
glide on intellec...

Categories: capote, emotions, feelings, friendship love,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

To Kill a Mockingbird: the Unsung Heroes

...To Kill a Mockingbird is both a young girl’s coming-of-age story and a more nebulous production about the reasons and consequences of bigotry and discrimination, examining how good and...

Categories: capote, angst, character, muse,
Form: Dramatic Verse

A Poetic Interview With Nancy Clutter

...A Poetic Interview with Nancy Clutter

(This poetic interview is fictional and imaginary, and is based on 47 years of study and repeated readings relative to Truman Capote’s novel, In Cold Blood, p...

Categories: capote, death,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Noel -French Sonnet

...Can you bring cheese to feast of Noel's Day,
good time of year to celebrate with cheer.
Yes, I will be there waiting you don't fear,
again together, Ma chérie, what may.
Your brother hates the si...

Categories: capote, romance,
Form: Sonnet

Matador

...Poet:  Ken Jordan
Poem:  Matador
Edited by:  Sparkle Jordan
written:  October/2015

Bravely 
he
poses

before
the
gates 

of
sudden death -

Poised
to
face 

his
most

formidab...

Categories: capote, animal, art, courage, image,
Form: Verse

All the Little Bards

...Albert Gannon Farquar-Lock, he sowed 
his peppered praise; his Shakespeare 
wandering love of  words, and hey!... 
distant, country, with me the pupil fifteen 
and a day, he my teacher:
keen to ...

Categories: capote, appreciation, art, beauty, culture,
Form: Free verse

Young American Days

...To be in a young America ~
           visions of a ship upcoming statue of Liberty
               the young lad holding tightly to his Mothers leg
             in all excitement of a new Land to call...

Categories: capote, absence, america, art, books,
Form: Epic

The Flamenco Dancer and the Bull

...The Flamenco Dancer and The Bull

The acoustics of your snuffle
 is an absolution 
of a descending staccato 
in an E chord.
Behold, my lancing third, 
an urgency to trick you 
with my jalapeño-colore...

Categories: capote, conflict,
Form: Ballad

Miss Lily Jane, the Iridescent

...When Miss Lily Jane Bobbit arrived in that Alabama town,
jaws dropped; all eyes were riveted on her.
The ordinary street on which she lived would be no longer common,
for Lily Jane now gra...

Categories: capote, people, woman, people, people,
Form: Narrative