Long Cronkite Poems
Long Cronkite Poems. Below are the most popular long Cronkite by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Cronkite poems by poem length and keyword.
Restoring Earthhealth"America's health care system
is neither healthy,
caring,
nor a system."
Walter Cronkite
An organic system,
an interdependent co-governing web
of relationships between communicating subsystems,
To be resilient,
to remain robust,
must be win/win cooperative rooted
and not so much capitalist,
headstrong win/lose dominant intended.
Win/lose plutocratic,
kleptocracy,
and capitalist...
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Categories:
cronkite, caregiving, community, conflict, earth, environment, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Y2kI would have to pause in trying to remember certain things that I would have experienced or events that happened 20 years ago. On the other hand, there is one major world situation that gradually...
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Categories:
cronkite, change, computer, fear,
Form:
Prose
50's and 60's Weird Tv On Channel Three - Part 2 Continued from Part 1
Matt Dillon chases Jack LaLane
Around a roller derby lane
I think I need some more cocaine,
So please don’t ever come back Shane
I try to walk another street
When me and Walter Cronkite...
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Categories:
cronkite, parody, night, me, night,
Form:
Rhyme
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Categories:
cronkite, history
Form:
Verse
Headliines of a ChildEvents embedded in my mind—from the decade of 6-0,
Return to me as vivid now, as they were long ago.
I went to bed afraid at night, fearing missiles from the south.
Ears ringing from the bearded man,...
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Categories:
cronkite, childhoodme,
Form:
I do not know?
UndertowThe Great Escape - The Birds - Charade - The Fugitive, The Twilight Zone
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World-
Civil rights, Viet Nam
The Beatles begged to hold my hand
The day was young and...
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Categories:
cronkite, death, history, november,
Form:
Free verse
The 60's
It was a cultural revolution, while a world jumped to conclusions
Of mini-skirts, and go-go boots, and psychedelic tensions
The flower child, would smile and sprout communal peaceful versions
about a war, and called it wrong,...
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Categories:
cronkite, history, time, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
Clair De LuneI would practice each day without satisfaction,
longing to capture the moon's oratory.
DeBussy, God, help me, I should say that I'm sorry!
Though my fingers were nimble, I'd lose concentration,
and fumble along with a grumble and sigh....
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Categories:
cronkite, childhood, music, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Longing For Walter CronkiteSome folks are misguided to sincerely believe
That what they hear on the news is fact, indeed,
I hope this poem will help you, friend, to relieve
That dreadful notion, for the “news” is suspect
Of being more commentary...
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Categories:
cronkite, anger, history, how i feel, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Moonlight SonataI'm bathed in the night, as it climbs through my window
While the music of moonlight softens the air
It dips, oh so softly, peeking gently with care,
Into the room, to lighten the gloom
While a timeless...
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Categories:
cronkite, moon, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
The state of the fourth estateNo estate should be able to turn away health inspectors,
No estate should be able to turn away ambulances,
while bleeding internally,
No estate should need to employ so many muckrakers,
or bush lawyers.
No...
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Categories:
cronkite, abuse, assonance, bereavement, betrayal, break up, cheer
Form:
Burlesque
Thoughts On the Evening NewsTo those who soak up the slanted slop from Fox
Isn’t it time you switched off your black box,
Or, changed to a channel espousing the facts--
All the things your "balanced TV News” surely lacks
I challenge you...
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Categories:
cronkite, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
Should Remember Walter CronkiteShould Remember Walter Cronkite
By Franklin Price
12/3/2016
Should remember Walter Cronkite
Most trusted newsman in the land
He told us what was happening
To help determine where to stand
Reported what was happening
Embellishment was not his thing
Reported, did not make the...
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Categories:
cronkite, celebrity, conflict, integrity, pollution, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Flipping Through the ChannelsFlipping Through the Channels
By Franklin Price
3/11/2018
Flipping through the channels
On this, time changed, Sunday morn
The network commentators
Politically committing porn
Presenting their agenda
Spouting their one sided view
To degrade the opposition
To see who they can screw
We participate as...
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Categories:
cronkite, perspective, political,
Form:
Rhyme
What Conscience Is To ShameJoplin was to Southern Comfort,
what Hendrix was to smack
Morrison was to masquerade,
what Dylan never lacks
Woodstock was to 69,’
what music was to time
Saigon was to those who stayed,
what...
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Categories:
cronkite, history,
Form:
Rhyme
What Conscience Is To ShameJoplin was to Southern Comfort,
what Hendrix was to smack
Morrison was to masquerade,
what Dylan never lacks
Woodstock was to 69,’
what music was to rhyme
Saigon was to those who stayed,
what Auschwitz now reminds
Kennedy was to hopes and dreams,
what...
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Categories:
cronkite, memorial,
Form:
Rhyme
Walter Cronkite and Why He Was So RightWalter was so right,
In his fight for right,
While not too far to the right.
Walter was a shining light,
A guiding light,
All his weight behind the light.
His quotes right on the money,
But not for the sake...
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Categories:
cronkite, analogy, appreciation, art, best friend, character, corruption,
Form:
Epitaph
UncorkedI'll never meet Cronkite,
Monroe, Garbo, Einstein, Epstein,
Bogart, Newman,Truman, but
wish I knew what they knew,
known?
wished I'd known,
tenses and I pretend I know them
but
I haven't got a clue as if you
the last of yesterday
know or knew them...
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Categories:
cronkite, loss,
Form:
Rhyme