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Literary Feud Among - Pt 1

Prelude to what…..

I see you,  /  you / yes, come into my…… 
laboratory of alchemist mystical languaging.
where arsenic spills into the whirlpool of thought 
and savage syntax shatter like glass on concrete.

Where Titans clash their pens
both spear and shield
signifier and signified in eternal dance.

What truths lie hidden in
the battle's tolling roll call.
Just what

Categories: fitzgerald, emotions, judgement, literature, poetry,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Clerihew Fitzgerald

Edwrd Fitzgerald a gentle manner
translated Omar Khayyam
These quatrains known asrubaiyat
so novel hedonistic &stansaic

Categories: fitzgerald, people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew

The Edmond Fitzgerald

The Edmond Fitzgerald was a tanker bold, twenty five thousand tons
of cargo, she held in her hole.
A crew of twenty seven sailors, a captain and a mate sailed the stormy waters
of a Michigan Great Lake.
She cruised out under a clear blue sky: they stood on the decks
as the waves slipped by.
They saw the sea birds

Categories: fitzgerald, eulogy,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

The S S Edmund Fitzgerald

“Superior, they said, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early” – Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian Balladeer,
from The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald

A song by Gordon Lightfoot I would hear
in 1976, my newborn daughter’s year.

S S Edmund Fitgerald was the ship,
and Lightfoot’s song described its final trip.

I thought that Lightfoot had made up

Categories: fitzgerald, history,
Form: Rhyme

The Ss Edmond Fitzgerald

In memory of the SS Edmond Fitzgerald
November 10, 1975
Seventeen miles Northwest of Whitefish Point, Michigan
Lake Superior

Twenty-nine crew men are cradled
in a watery grave
no distress calls were ever heard
no bodies ever recovered
the gales of November turned fierce
as the 729 foot ore carrier 
plummeted to her final resting place
530 feet below
Lake Superior holds too many secrets
and leaves

Categories: fitzgerald, anniversary, death,
Form: Free verse

Iho the Crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Lake Superior, Gitche Gumee
November winds, fear starts boiling.
The ship creaks, groans, twists, water spumy; 
Thoughts of loved ones waiting on shore pushed aside.
Evil eye of the storm is coiling
And springs to release twenty-nine souls into the debris.
The church bell twenty-nine times is tolling.

Categories: fitzgerald, journey, sea, tribute,
Form: Rhyme

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Today, would never be elected!
He'd be run out of rooms.
How dare he ask us:
"Ask not what your country can 
do for you, ask what you can
do for your country."

I remember being so moved by
that statement.
But our country has taken a new
direction.
And we scratch our heads, oh really?
Asking why there is so much dereliction?

Re-think JFK's question.
Stop listening

Categories: fitzgerald, america, brother,
Form: Free verse

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

The Great Lakes Engineering Works built a new boat
S. S. Edmund Fitzgerald, t'would soon be afloat
The people that owned her needed a name
President of the company was given that fame.

One of the largest boats to sail on the Great Lakes
Was a solidly built boat and had what it takes
September twenty fourth nineteen fifty and eight
Was

Categories: fitzgerald, memorial, natural disasters,
Form: Narrative

Here Today Gone Tomorrow a Tribute To President John Fitzgerald Kennedy

And there for one brief moment
Was our light
Shining strong
And shining bright
Bringing us new signs of hope
With courage
And the gift to cope
He left us when he's needed most 
Returning to the Blessed Host
With caring grace 
And love of man
This leader came
Did all he can
All must remember what he gave
His dreams for us
Are what we save

Categories: fitzgerald, absence, america, courage, faith,
Form: Rhyme