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enduring memory

...enduring memory 

It was in New York
on the pavement
outside
Radio City Music Hall
I saw Jack Dempsey
and Alan Ladd
I had not seen a famous
people before
Jack wore brown pants
a loud sport...

Categories: dempsey, absence, age, child,
Form: Free verse

we who loved America

...We Who Loved America (first part)

It was a humid August evening in 1958
when the cargo ship
I served as a galley helper docked in NEW York
I was mesmerized by the tall buildings
the tallest bu...

Categories: dempsey, absence, addiction, april, birthday,
Form: Blank verse

When We Idolized

...
  ~ A Sonnet in Iambic Tetrameter ~

  Remember when we idolized
    Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Shoeless Joe  
  They seemed so great back in the day
    Personas perfect, A-OK 

  But that was...

Categories: dempsey, celebrity, hero, loss, sports,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

The Contender

...The contender

I have not met many famous people in me continues life
but I have seen three kings, the first one who, when old
broke his leg for a reason not clear to me, died from
the accident ...

Categories: dempsey, absence, depression, humanity,
Form: Blank verse

A Boxer and An Actor

...The boxer and the actor

I saw them on the sidewalk near The Radio music Hall
in New York, Jack was telling Alan a joke 
Jack Dempsey wore a sport’s jacket, brown trousers
a white shirt’s open, ...

Categories: dempsey, america, blessing, color, confidence,
Form: Sonnet

New York1955

...New York 1955


  Evening in Broadway I saw Alan Ladd 
 Talking to Joe Dempsey
  Alan was surprisingly small
 Joe was big and had drinkers face.
 Advertisement for Camel cigarettes
  I didn`t...

Categories: dempsey, 9th grade, baseball, basketball,
Form: Blank verse

The Greatest, Still

...In 1960, I was introduced to the world in a place called Rome
A place where gladiators battled at center stage, a place so far away from home
Young, robust, handsome; nah, 'pretty', that's right, '...

Categories: dempsey, appreciation, black african american,
Form: Bio

Summer Oasis In the Bronx

...Dawn awakens, lets yawn red searing sigh,
summer steams sweltering sweating sunlight.
Street's hot bed of coals smolders in July,
temperatures torch with tropical smite.

Haze humid stir-frying ...

Categories: dempsey, children, city, summer, water,
Form: Rhyme

I'M Sorry

...Apologies are 
Commonly phrased 
Cliche afterthoughts 
Of inadequate responses
And inferior substitutes 
For thinking ere speaking, 
Which right no wrongs, 
Created by those 
Desiring to feel...

Categories: dempsey, forgiveness, friendship, life, philosophy,
Form: Lyric