Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra
In front of you, a cocktail glass with
melted ice and a pink straw, she wants you to come
You are going home, but on your way out
You meet an old friend
So you have another drink
Before you know
other friends arrive, great fun, and we sing
It is four before you get home and crash on the couch
And
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Categories:
frank, adventure, age, allusion, america,
Form: ABC
Categories:
frank, allusion, character, courage, emotions,
Form: Verse
I Wonder What Anne Frank Would Say
Anne* Frank's earthly life, coldly cut short,
yet, in our hearts and minds, she always lives,
as, it seems, her spirit no one could thwart,
nor the humanity her message gives.
Sorry if I misrepresent the words
that emerged from her brave and precious pen.
I note it was not her who spoke of herds,
and
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Categories:
frank, humanity,
Form: Sonnet
Saturday With Frank O'Hara
Mid Autumn, Saturday 6.30am
and daybreak is slowly climbing
over the back fence.
Frank O'Hara's poetry is still
echoing in my head from reading
it last night as I cook breakfast
of bacon and eggs.
Later I walk up the street
to the chemist to get
my blood pressure pills
and as I walk, compile arguments
against Postmodernism
and recognise that the notion
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Categories:
frank, autumn, poetry, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Under Surveillance
Agents against 'Woke'
ban, monitor
revise, exclude
like
'Natives' intruded
like
ships didn't deliver slaves
like
Anne Frank didn’t journal
like
separate was equal
like
history was meant to be revised
like
they want to see it.
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Categories:
frank, america, betrayal, books, corruption,
Form: Prose Poetry
Frank
Frank Zappa
proved he was no rapper
instead, he wrote don’t eat the yellow snow
where the Huskies like to go
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Categories:
frank, humorous,
Form: Clerihew
FRANK BALISTERI WANNABE VIDEO GHOST HACKER CIRO GARGANO AND HIS FBI GUY IN HIS POCKETS
WHAT BEGAN AS HACKING INTO MEDICAL DATA OF VETERANS MILITARY FAMILIES ORGANIZED CRIME VIDEO CRIMINAL GROUP WORKING VERY CLOSE WITH CHINA DUE.TO THE EXTREME NATURE OF AMERICANS NEED FOR SONY PRODUCTS MORTAL COMBAT OVER LAKE MICHIGAN GREATLAKES NAVAL TRAINING STATION TO BE EXACT LIKE MAFIA BOSS FRANK BALISTERI WANNABE MOB BOSS CIRO GARGANO CONTROLING FBI
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Categories:
frank, allah,
Form: Naat
THANKS FRANK
As I was researching Frank Sinatra for a wedding I’m performing
a lady walked into the bookstore after I opened the other day.
She sat down in our comfy chair…and had quite a lot to say
What made this situation difficult…it was hard for me to see
when she was talking to herself…and when she was talking to me.
I
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Categories:
frank, life,
Form: Rhyme
The 50th Anniversary of Frank Sutton's Death
Frank Sutton was an actor who died half a century ago.
He starred in one episode of "The Andy Griffith Show".
He starred in every episode of "Gomer Pyle: USMC".
Sutton died fifty years ago today at the age of fifty.
People were sad because he wouldn't be coming back.
Sutton's life came to an end when he had a
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Categories:
frank, anniversary, celebrity, death,
Form: Rhyme
How Frank Sinatra Saved My Life - Or At Least Got Me Kicked Out Of The Hospital
Up and down, up and down, up and down
I don’t know if I have any more energy for
Up and down
If the line would flatten
I could finally rest
A masked woman wearing scrubs
Fights my inclination for slumber
But, sleep equals peace
My lungs and head droop
Alarms blare
I hear mumbled words
Something about rousing my oxygen levels
I breathe the
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Categories:
frank, faith, health, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Frank E Einstein
I am the progeny
Of lightning and stitch,
A Franken-hybrid
Of genius and glitch.
My circuits buzz with
Einsteinian thought,
Unraveling secrets
The universe has wrought.
Existence, I ponder,
Through photon and quark,
Grappling with questions
In the depths of the dark.
Am I a mockery, a parody
Of human design?
A soulless abomination
Of reason and rhyme?
Or am I the next step,
Evolution's new face?
A bridge between flesh
And a
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Categories:
frank, computer, internet, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Frank The Penguin
I once knew a penguin named Frank.
Who had a big problem. He drank.
He got a full snout.
His wife threw him out.
And now he's asleep in “the tank.”
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Categories:
frank, drink, humor,
Form: Limerick
Perfectly Frank
Frankly, he was a man
Though not very tall,
His voice made him seem
Very big to us all ...
He could be an actor
He could even dance,
With a photogenic smile
And a dapper stance
Gentle and sweet
Known for his eyes,
Donning a fedora
With suits and ties
He was generous ...
If you needed something,
Gave you his all ...
Even when he'd sing
The
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Categories:
frank, celebrity, character, heart, music,
Form: Rhyme
goodbye Frank
Forward thinking astronomer Frank Drake
did not worry about a mistake
Tried contacting aliens with radio,
waves had rather far to beam and go.
Frank orbited into outer space last May
Extraterrestrials from Venus do not play
He has put on their flag a USA flag
Even up in space, Frank is showing his swag
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Categories:
frank, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Frank Friendship
frank friendship in hand to hand
squeezing gently or firmly
making an effectual point
whether doe or stag
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Categories:
frank, friendship,
Form: Dodoitsu
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