In Grandma's House
...In one corner of your room
you’d hung a faded photograph
of Charles Lindbergh and his plane
in sepia
covering
a lighter-colored square of wall
exactly the same size.
He looked so dashing
wi...
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Categories:
lindbergh, farm, flying, grandmother, loss,
Form: Free verse
1920 To 1929
...I am the roaring twenties
And the cotton club.
I am Al Capone and his
Thugs.
I am the rise of Joseph
Stalin.
I am the age of science
And penicillin.
I am Walt Disney a...
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Categories:
lindbergh, history,
Form: Rhyme
Almost Perfect Day
...I lollygag as much as I can
As I travel from meadow to prairie
Grandma packs me a lunch
Knowing she will not see me for hours
It is 1960. She is not frightened I will be found dead
Kidnappers on...
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Categories:
lindbergh, childhood,
Form: Prose Poetry
Undivided Love
...Their love was divided
many times over
it stood the test of time
as they enlarged it
Never diminishing it grew
encompassing family
including friends
in their magic circle
No matter what l...
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Categories:
lindbergh, love,
Form: Verse
Will This Agony Ever End?
...Most folks have experienced torturous problems along life's bourne.
Some brooked it with blissful grace, others with venomous scorn!
'Tis easy to be trapped in a seemingly hopeless situation,
Musi...
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Categories:
lindbergh, funny
Form: Rhyme
When They Met. Part I.
...When Socretes, Plato and Aristotle teamed,
the line between the will to learn married the will to teach.
When Raphael, Leonardo, and Michael lived at Belvedere,
Art would see her form take shape a...
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Categories:
lindbergh, education, history, hope, imagination,
Form: Carpe Diem