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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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Marikate Kingston
Categories:
cronkite,
poems, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
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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Caren Krutsinger
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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David Smith
Categories:
cronkite,
abuse, assonance, bereavement, betrayal,
Form:
Burlesque
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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Kim Merryman
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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Reason A. Poteet
Categories:
cronkite,
11th grade, integrity, leadership,
Form:
Roundel
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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L Milton Hankins
Categories:
cronkite,
anger, history, how i
Form:
Free verse
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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L Milton Hankins
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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Kurt Philip Behm
Categories:
cronkite,
memory,
Form:
Free verse
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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Gerald Dillenbeck
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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David Smith
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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Kurt Philip Behm
Categories:
cronkite,
memorial,
Form:
Rhyme
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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Curtis Johnson
Categories:
cronkite,
change, computer, fear,
Form:
Prose
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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Carrie Richards
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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John Smallshaw
Categories:
cronkite,
loss,
Form:
Rhyme
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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Franklin Price
Categories:
cronkite,
perspective, political,
Form:
Rhyme
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