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Cronkite Poems - Poems about Cronkite

My Missing Muse
...My Missing Muse I have tried to write as of late, but my mind has become a true blank slate. My keyboard is bored and my ideas are bland. I have to think of something grand. Lately I lack ......

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Categories: cronkite, poems, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member alternative facts eye roll
...It is an alternative fact, she says. Interpretation: It is a lie. Walter Cronkite would be horrified. That she used that term on national television. There are no alternative facts, only facts.......

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Categories: cronkite, history,
Form: Free verse



The state of the fourth estate
...No estate should be able to turn away health inspectors, No estate should be able to turn away ambulances, while bleeding internally, No estate should need to employ so many muckrakers, or bu......

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Categories: cronkite, abuse, assonance, bereavement, betrayal,
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member Walter Cronkite
...Walter Cronkite, Waxed erudite. For fifty-six years he reported the news, Trusted and revered for his truthful views.......

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Categories: cronkite, celebrity, integrity,
Form: Clerihew
Anchors Without Rancour
...Anchors without rancour are rare today. They don’t just report rumors, they dissect some. Men like Brinkley and Huntley, anchors aweigh, anchors without rancour. They steer clear of party-line......

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Categories: cronkite, 11th grade, integrity, leadership,
Form: Roundel



Premium Member Longing For Walter Cronkite
...Some folks are misguided to sincerely believe That what they hear on the news is fact, indeed, I hope this poem will help you, friend, to relieve That dreadful notion, for the “news” i......

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Categories: cronkite, anger, history, how i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thoughts On the Evening News
...To those who soak up the slanted slop from Fox Isn’t it time you switched off your black box, Or, changed to a channel espousing the facts-- All the things your "balanced TV News” surely l......

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Categories: cronkite, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Lambs To Slaughter
...Sometimes, the very best informed remain the most naïve Cronkite in 1963, “Oswald Was The One” The Mob sat back and licked their chops, “Bobby’s Finished Now” As millions mourn in fal......

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Categories: cronkite, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Restoring Earthhealth
..."America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system." Walter Cronkite An organic system, an interdependent co-governing web of relationships between communicating subsyste......

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Categories: cronkite, caregiving, community, conflict, earth,
Form: Political Verse
Walter Cronkite and Why He Was So Right
...Walter was so right, In his fight for right, While not too far to the right. Walter was a shining light, A guiding light, All his weight behind the light. His quotes right on the money, B......

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Categories: cronkite, analogy, appreciation, art, best
Form: Epitaph
What Conscience Is To Shame
...Joplin was to Southern Comfort, what Hendrix was to smack Morrison was to masquerade, what Dylan never lacks Woodstock was to 69,’ what music was to rhyme Saigon was to those who stayed, wha......

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Categories: cronkite, memorial,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Y2k
...I would have to pause in trying to remember certain things that I would have experienced or events that happened 20 years ago. On the other hand, there is one major world situation that gradually unf......

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Categories: cronkite, change, computer, fear,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Clair De Lune
...I would practice each day without satisfaction, longing to capture the moon's oratory. DeBussy, God, help me, I should say that I'm sorry! Though my fingers were nimble, I'd lose concentration, a......

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Categories: cronkite, childhood, music, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Uncorked
...I'll never meet Cronkite, Monroe, Garbo, Einstein, Epstein, Bogart, Newman,Truman, but wish I knew what they knew, known? wished I'd known, tenses and I pretend I know them but I haven't go......

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Categories: cronkite, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Flipping Through the Channels
...Flipping Through the Channels By Franklin Price 3/11/2018 Flipping through the channels On this, time changed, Sunday morn The network commentators Politically committing **** Presenting t......

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Categories: cronkite, perspective, political,
Form: Rhyme

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