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Celebrity Commonness

...What sad fate does all of these celebrities likely have in common?

Aaliyah
Aaron Hernandez
Abraham Lincoln
Amy Winehouse
Anna Nicole Smith
Bob Marley
Brandon Lee
Brittany Murphy
Bruce Lee
...

Categories: lee harvey oswald, anxiety,
Form: List

While Vehicle Underwent Routine Oil Change Today

...While vehicle underwent routine oil change today...

At Norm's Save Station
551 Gravel Pike, Collegeville, Pennsylvania,
yours truly suddenly realized
fifty eight years earlier
(a preschooler l...

Categories: lee harvey oswald, absence, america, anger, bereavement,
Form: Free verse

My Time Machine

...I flipped the switch and it roared to life,
With gears spinning and blinking lights,
Dials with arrows swinging left and right,
And a GPS screen to track my flight.

Then I closely examined my h...

Categories: lee harvey oswald, dad, fantasy, father, father
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

The Annals of History

...Review the annals of history
   Murder upon murder you'll see

Start with Adam and Eve's son, Cain
   Who murdered his brother Abel in vain

Then there's Moses, the saintly lawgiver
   Who mur...

Categories: lee harvey oswald, history, murder, remember,
Form: Couplet

Everything Is Not As It Seems

...Back in '63,
I remember vividly,
only 6 years old,
and watching our
black and white tv,
showing Lee Harvey Oswald
being escorted down the hall,
handcuffed and under arrest,
when out of the bl...

Categories: lee harvey oswald, allusion, america, remember, ,
Form: Light Verse

Proven

...today it has been proven that our justice system does'nt represent justice. it just 
fixes things the way they want things to be fixed. today a murderer was judged not 
guilty and will soon walk fr...

Categories: lee harvey oswald, allegorytoday,
Form: I do not know?

Some Folks Are So Gullible

...Some Folks Are So Gullible

By Elton Camp

Pity those who believe anything others say
People like that are certain Lincoln was gay
FDR was a sorry presidential ball of slime
Who knew about Pea...

Categories: lee harvey oswald, funny
Form: Rhyme

Beginning of the Downfall

...I was a senior in high school and I still remember
That Friday afternoon in late November
Early dismissal after saying a prayer
Disbelief and sadness filling the air

He was a man with vision an...

Categories: lee harvey oswald, history, high school,
Form: Rhyme

History Lesson

...HISTORY LESSON

I.

Sweet Joe McCarthy who will fill your shoes
Keeping down the reds and making them sing the blues
Your spirit lives on in these modern days
Teaching us to hate in many diffe...

Categories: lee harvey oswald, political, life,
Form: Free verse

To Lee Harvey Oswald, My Lover

...Fire
Flames – destroying everything –
Flames – I felt their heat –
The whirling world – it cannot stand—
In fevered circuit melts.

Those flames traverse
Throughout my bones,
Rage, hot, acros...

Categories: lee harvey oswald, history, introspection, lost love,
Form: Rhyme

Cup of Stars

...When I escape
this world of storm--
(I can, you know, in many ways)
I'll leave behind
(they say it's so)
Just a body full of days.

When I escape
--go heaven-bound --
As easily as a tear is ...

Categories: lee harvey oswald, loveme, world, body, me,
Form: Lyric

Can a Historian Explain This

...Lincoln elected to Congress in 1846
Kennedy elected to Congress in 1946 
Lincoln elected President in 1860
Kennedy elected President in 1960 
Lincoln's secretary named Kennedy 
Kennedy's Secreta...

Categories: lee harvey oswald, history, mystery, political,
Form: Free verse