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Hunter Biden

...From his mother’s womb
One February afternoon
and straight to the Situation Room
Hunter Biden, we presume.
His father, with his thoughtless clauses and pauses,
Captured the most prestigious of o...

Categories: delano, america, celebrity, drug, funny,
Form: Political Verse

Delano Goes Back To School

...He lives right next door to me and he is seven years old 
as I stood on my balcony I watch him come out of the house 
backpack strapped to his back he looked forlorn and serious 
"Are you looking ...

Categories: delano, angst, preschool, september,
Form: Narrative

True Leadership

...Nation huddled in darkness
As a leader emerged
Promising a “New Deal”
Recovery from the Great Depression

Our thirty-second president
Wise, compassionate
Franklin Delano Roosevelt 
Beacon...

Categories: delano, history, leadership,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Israel and Palestinians Won My Heart - How and Why

...1. Emirates (UAE) that has not officially recognized Israel, made a historic flight to Ben Gurion Airport to deliver several tons of aid to "Palestinians." WEST-BANK refused the aid. Why? It was not ...

Categories: delano, creation, food, immigration, international,
Form: Didactic

Bass Strait Sealing Rush

...The Bass Strait sealing rush began in eighteen-o-three,
where at least a dozen vessels were wrestling with the sea,
for the China trade was booming, for the want of skins and oils.
This was the fi...

Categories: delano, history,
Form: Lyric

Einstein's Brain

...Einstein's Brain

Gifted genius, Newtonian spoiler,
Physicist and Nobel Prize winner;
Pacifist whose formula and theory
On energy and quantum mechanics;

Advances the scientific communi...

Categories: delano, america, education, history, science,
Form: Quatrain

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

...Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
White House is where he dwelt.
He did three long terms,
“Set term limits” congress confirms!




January 23, 2019
Contest:Educate Me with Humor - Leader 
Clerihew...

Categories: delano, political, tribute,
Form: Clerihew

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...

Categories: delano, feelings, history, international, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Skoal!

...It's "The Children's Hour," as Franklin Delano
dubbed it, proffering that famous profile, chin high,
cigarette holder clinched in good dental symmetry,
all the while flashing that celebrated smile...

Categories: delano, people
Form: Free verse