Long Eleanor roosevelt Poems

Please Michelle Obama...
can you save American democracy?

I highly hugely grant 
Barack Hussein belated kudos
what with his wizardesses 
in tow wrought wonders 
to one nation analogous 
while an under dog
sweeping in like... 
It's a Bird... It's...

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Women all around the world
a tribute to you twirling
everyday work and struggles
A woman, wife, mother, chauffeur,
nurse, doctors, lawyers, engineer,
short order cook, baker, teacher,
poet, artist, librarian, soldier,
sister, mother in-law, grandmother,
great-grandmother, daughter,
friend, peacemaker, dancer,
dog-walker, ... and a...

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A Woman's Self-Worth, is highest among all, for it was a woman, God created, in thy divine holy image.  Friendships, relationships, and holy matrimony, was God's blueprint, for all women.

Eve, the first wife and...

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CHOICES* 
From the time we are born until the time that we die
Choices are ours to make or to try.
When we were very small we had no say at all
but a choice was there for...

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“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can...

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In the history of first ladies
 I never envisioned the strength and power of women that carried a torch of greatness for which they stood.  
From Eleanor Roosevelt to Jackie Kennedy…just to name a...

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History books are filled with men’s escapades
Are women’s accomplishments seen as charades?

Joan of Arc had visions of saints leading her
to save France from Britain’s tyrannical cur.

Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat --
defending...

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Ideal instructor, shows integrity, impact in instruction.

5/2/2022

* Deuteronomy 32:2  
May my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distill as the dew, like gentle rain upon the tender grass, and like showers upon the...

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She hid me for months in isolation,
withholding the truth about her mistake
from a past when innocence was ruined;
yet, strong enough to keep an embryo pulsing..
as this baby born with a man’s same features
labeled her as...

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Do you ever get thirsty?
With a cup that's half empty
I believe in the waters of endless oceans
To me peace has a special movement and motion
It has grip on you, you feel the strength, but it's...

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The future belongs to those who believe 
in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt

                    ...

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So many seem to feel no self-esteem
feeling so very down think they're no good
confidence so low at various times
but there's a way to get one in the mood

You can raise yourself up again
feed yourself with...

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   "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."             -Eleanor Roosevelt


My aspirations keep me whole.
Your love...

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Quote: "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. 
 By -Eleanor Roosevelt" 
                ...

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I’ll pluck the poisonous parrot with a PROVERB:
‘Nob’dy can make you feel inferior without your consent!’*

(But WHY
Would I give my consent,
ANYWAY?)

(Because it’s a habit!)
(Because DREAMS are SCARY)

(The mean little P.P. SABOTAGES words with words)

…a little...

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At the museum, the portraits are hung
Of presidents, staring ahead,
A few of them still drawing breath, but by now,
Most have been, for a lot of years, dead.

Some I studied in school, some I knew not...

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Eleanor Roosevelt, six days a week,
Wrote a column that many would read.
Since ninety-odd papers did carry her work,
She had all of the readers she’d need.

Called “My Day,” her writing described what she felt,
Where she traveled...

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“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature;
but beautiful old people are works of art.”  - Eleanor Roosevelt

Experience soaks in
And mixes with
Internal chemistry
The personality distills
And slowly seeps to the surface
With age

I see youth -
Beautiful at...

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