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Ed Sullivan Poems - Poems about Ed Sullivan

Premium Member Clap Your Hands
... When he was 13 and I was 12, he sang “Clap your hands just a little bit louder,” and I followed his playful commands. We out there in TV land thrilled to the sound of his superb, inimitabl......

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Categories: ed sullivan, appreciation, music, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Today, I Mourn slain Beatle John Lennon
...Today, I Mourn slain Beatle John Lennon assassinated at 10:50 PM, on December 8, 1980 forty four years later to date outside The Dakota Apartment, (also known as the Dakota Apartments), located......

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Categories: ed sullivan, anger, anniversary, appreciation, death,
Form: Free verse



Record Collections
...In a closet, stuffed in bags, My records gather dust. The player’s gone and speakers, too, But keeping them’s a must. My friend is giving hers away, But on the other side, My sister got my co......

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Categories: ed sullivan, music, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member remembering in black and white
...tv in the fifties altering weekend rituals one set in the neighbourhood streetboys sitting around the famous indian head for their fill of saturday morning cartoons sci-fi flash gordon and i lo......

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Categories: ed sullivan, change, community, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Who Remember the Good Ole Days
...Only the Real OG's will remember. All of these old movies are from back in the day. Some of you will remember and some of you won't have a clue of what I am talking about. Let's go down memory la......

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Categories: ed sullivan, change, growing up, life,
Form: Narrative



DAYS OF OLD 40's
...We had; The face behind the mask and Chattanooga choo, choo. A boy and his dog and Bill and Coo. We three and Gaslight. The black cat and Dead of the night. A ......

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Categories: ed sullivan, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Feels Like a Saturday
...My childhood of the 1960's, all those years ago, feels like a Saturday in my journey nostalgic. The Cowsill's song "Flower Girl," their purity of song, of smiles. A daydream streams, of runnin......

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Categories: ed sullivan, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Teen Magazine 1965
...teen magazine was popular in 1965 when I was thirteen mom had Better Homes and Garden, Redbook and Women’s Day. it was only right that my identical twin and I would have Teen. mom’s magazines were......

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Categories: ed sullivan, nostalgia,
Form: Blank verse
Beware the Ides of March 2023
...Beware The Ides of March 2023 Ides simply referred to first new moon, which usually fell between the thirteenth and fifteenth day of a given month. The following events all occurred fift......

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Categories: ed sullivan, abuse, age, anniversary, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Vapor
...VAPOR! By Paul David Powers! Life is but a vapor, flowers bloom and die! But we have a destiny, a purpose, reason rhyme! In the beginning is the searching to find the person you The Beatles a......

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Categories: ed sullivan, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Beware the Ides of March 2022 Part I
...Ides simply referred to first new moon, which usually fell between the thirteenth and fifteenth day of a given month. Smithsonian Magazine history buff Tom A. Frail posted March 4, 2010 iss......

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Categories: ed sullivan, adventure, celebration, conflict, death,
Form: Rhyme
Dazed
...Charlie’s Angels, Starsky and Hutch, Welcome Back Cotter, The Brady Bunch. I think I watched TV too much! Columbo, The Partridge Family, Lucille Ball, I must confess I viewed them ......

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Categories: ed sullivan, growing up, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Too Much Tv
...Too Much TV David J Walker I imagined a grand theme song And the applause of a capitative audience A clever line or two and then The laugh track Of an amused though admittedly p......

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Categories: ed sullivan, nostalgia, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Marilyn and Elvis
...Marilyn and Elvis, iconic, and well-loved, cherished, beloved. Loved and beloved in the same sentence? Only for these two. They both have a vulnerability and a tragic back story Elvis had to live ......

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Categories: ed sullivan, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rabbit Ears
...Black and white television set First one in the neighborhood Rabbit ears adjusting the reception Rotating dial to change channels Kiddie cartoons and Roy Rogers Weekly ritual of Saturday mor......

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Categories: ed sullivan, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse

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