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Jack Dempsey Poems - Poems about Jack Dempsey


enduring memory
...enduring memory  It was in New York on the pavement outside Radio City Music Hall I saw Jack Dempsey and Alan Ladd I had not seen a famous people before Jack wore brown pants a loud sport......

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Categories: jack dempsey, absence, age, child,
Form: Free verse
we who loved America
...We Who Loved America (first part) It was a humid August evening in 1958 when the cargo ship I served as a galley helper docked in NEW York I was mesmerized by the tall buildings the tallest bu......

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Categories: jack dempsey, absence, addiction, april, birthday,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member When We Idolized
... ~ A Sonnet in Iambic Tetrameter ~ Remember when we idolized Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Shoeless Joe They seemed so great back in the day Personas perfect, A-OK But that was......

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Categories: jack dempsey, celebrity, hero, loss, sports,
Form: Sonnet
The Contender
...The contender I have not met many famous people in me continues life but I have seen three kings, the first one who, when old broke his leg for a reason not clear to me, died from the accident ......

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Categories: jack dempsey, absence, depression, humanity,
Form: Blank verse
A Boxer and An Actor
...The boxer and the actor I saw them on the sidewalk near The Radio music Hall in New York, Jack was telling Alan a joke Jack Dempsey wore a sport’s jacket, brown trousers a white shirt’s open, ......

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Categories: jack dempsey, america, blessing, color, confidence,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Summer Oasis In the Bronx
...Dawn awakens, lets yawn red searing sigh, summer steams sweltering sweating sunlight. Street's hot bed of coals smolders in July, temperatures torch with tropical smite. Haze humid stir-frying ......

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Categories: jack dempsey, children, city, summer, water,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things