1930 To 1939
...I am the empire state
Building opens.
I am Nazi Germany
Invades Poland.
I am the 21st amendment
Ending prohibition.
I am Life magazine's first
Addition.
I am the Star...
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Categories:
franklin roosevelt, history,
Form: Rhyme
Catch-Phrase
...*Image of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt.
Catch-Phrase
TANKA
(interrupt someone who's talking)
West would say, If I
may stop you dead in your tracks
East would say, If I
may ...
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Categories:
franklin roosevelt, word play,
Form: Verse
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...
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Categories:
franklin roosevelt, history, leadership,
Form: Free verse
The Florida of My Youth - My Generation
...The Florida of My Youth - My Generation
By Franklin Price
10/13/2019
Was born in mid November of nineteen forty five,
Was the last of seven siblings (only four are still alive).
Four sisters a...
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Categories:
franklin roosevelt, family, life,
Form: Couplet
All For Show
...Most Americans just didn't know
Franklin Roosevelt had polio --
He sat in his iron chair
And he sweat like a bear --
His powerful image all for show...
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Categories:
franklin roosevelt, image, power, sick,
Form: Limerick
A Wartime Childhood
...I was seven years old when began World War Two
And eleven became by the time it was through.
I have vague recollections of things when that small,
But events during wartime I clearly recall.
Si...
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Categories:
franklin roosevelt, america, history, patriotic, soldier,
Form: Rhyme
Drawn From Mainline Observations
...Described as a ‘nightmare scenario’
in Iraq and the Middle East;
the endless war – its mess
that afflicts people of all races.
More troops have been sent there
more personnel and other organizations...
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Categories:
franklin roosevelt, death, devotion, faith, history,
Form: Narrative