Nostalgia Hero Poems

My flag is not black n white with a blue streak 
My flag is not a field of white stars n scars of machine guns
My...

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Be a cowboy, the TV once beamed at me
    Later on, a baseball or football star

  For a while, of 'He-Man'...

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Marvelous Maxine Hunkel, heroine cyclone, 
With her amazing power gets anyone blown...!

Through her abductor scientist Morrow the mad,
With vast violent velocity she got clad...!

Her simple...

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A voice of gravel wrapped in velvet
Bringing a warmth to every song,
Laid back and gentle as
Every track moved along.
He looked so tall and lanky in
Photographs...

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Who the hell is Gordon Bennett
Some think there’s insanity
In the fact we call his name
As though it were profanity

Not so famous nowadays
As once he used...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Courtly days of knights so gallant,
And demure damsels in distress;
Hearken ye to this admiring descant,
Of chivalry and sheer noblesse.

Nights of satin and days of adventure,
Of...

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Promises are broken not because of untruth
but because they lied....

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I was watching the TV the other day
When a certain Rerun began to play.
It brought me back to one of my brain's stifled bans
Because it...

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It's early November '91, 
and I quite can't remember, 
ever, 
feeling this humbled, seeing
Magic stumble, 
off his shiny crown, 
and the little boy
Who once glared...

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She then got tangled in her floor length gown,
Hustle, bustle, she collected herself down.
Up she stared to see her charming prince of dream,
Woke up from...

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So you old bugger 
you’ve gone

and how many more will there be of

you

in the top 

one

watching from Holgate you’d just come back
you'd scored for England...

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What is being a hero?
But only flaunting our virtues
And when is it too late? When we are dead?

When we die are we really going to...

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An amulet of peace hung ‘round my neck,
An AR16 rifle in my hands….
Seemed like such a paradox,
In the paddies and jungles of Vietnam.

An amulet of...

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Dedicated to every young man bestowed the honor of wearing 
the glorious Oklahoma Sooners' Crimson & Cream 

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Over sixty years, boy and man, I have...

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