Long Lyndon Poems

When I was born in 1949, Harry Truman was the President of The United States.  Of course I do not personally remember him.  Mr. Truman was followed by Mr. Dwight Eisenhower, but I...

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Sinai Campaign, 1967

“Operation Focus” sees Israeli jets streaking, 1
Attacking Arab fighter jets and air force bases, 2
Thus attaining dominance over Middle Eastern skies,
While IDF ground divisions launch into action. 3

Israeli tanks (Pattons, Shermans, and Centurions)
Blitzkrieg...

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Only God can see perfectly what is ahead four years up the road.                      ...

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Memorial Day – 2023... origin of holiday

Strong and brave men and women 
gave their level best
crème de la crème strongest and bravest
leaving grieving significant others 
with emotional agony within treasured chest
o'er the redoubt the the...

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(Taking headlines from October 1964,
the poem revisits our shared experience ...)

Monday 5: Fifty-Four East Germans Tunnel to Freedom

Back then, it was not in doubt,
(Richard Burton Tony Quinn):
the Wall was there to keep us out?
No –...

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Numbers are great bearers of truth.                             ...

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I wear a veil of iron mesh,
it sheilds me from sensation,
it's like the one that Jackie wore
after Jack's assassination.

I was just a youngster then,
but, deep inside, I knew,
that with that act of violence
came the end...

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Memorial Day – 2020... since time immemorial

crème de la crème strongest and bravest
forsook their lives eternal peace they rest
honored and revered succumbed mortal test.

(now pardon ma faux pas 
from dis po' pa try'n 2b sleek)
line...

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Lyndon, you’ve sent me overseas 
To fight your bloody battle 
Although it hasn’t been that long 
That I threw down my baby rattle 
But bodies are what you needed 
And wars make you rich 
While...

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Officially called Decoration Day
proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan
first observed on 30 May 1868
Waterloo N.Y. officially declared the birthplace
by President Lyndon Johnson in May 1966.

though two score and ten plus years since...

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*VIDEO of Barry Lyndon's Final by YouTube.
LYRICS by numbers.

As Loyal as a Dove

Whereth a realm ebbs loyal subjects  0:06
Causeth Spring to be it forever more  0:16
Whereth be it tide laurels of passion ...

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How are you my darling
How's things in heaven
And are you honoring the Father
You whom are one of His daughter

And are you playing with our first "Grandson Lyndon"
How's Mama and  Pa Brown
Did you finally meet...

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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 Secretary named Lincoln 

Both concerned with Civil Rights
Both lost children...

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The longer I live the greater Martin Luther King looks 
compared with those who have tried to carry on his work. 
The man had integrity, guts, ideas and class. 

It was heartbreaking in the Sixties...

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that day*

two score and ten
business men in leisure suits,
grandmothers with grey handkerchiefed hair 
and adolescents in gaudy glasses,
girls wearing bouffants and sweaters, 
the boys maybe ducktails with Pomade

all wrinkling their faces in disbelief - 
profound...

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