Long Newsmen Poems

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Each town has it’s own Heart Beat: Thump, Thump- Thump, Thump.
And All can go astray when doing wrong feels so right.

A young man came in contact with the police… and has died.
So the town decided...

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In endless quest we sought seclusions peace                          	
hiding in the...

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I recall it was just the other day
Featured in the daily for which we pay
Your blown-up photo splashed across
The front page for all to gloss
Your background and your virtues extolled
For your wedding bells were soon...

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Alarm clock screams, it's time to rise,
bye bye sleepy dreams, into the lows from last night's highs,
ready yourself for the line or the cubicle cage,
tell yourself you'll be fine, while you silently rage,
what new rules...

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As we rallied to the Falklands cry,
And prepared ourselves to fight and die,
Some willing, some pressed, some volunteers,
All with deep down hidden fears.
Gangways gone, Hawser sip,
Sail Intrepid, fighting ship!!
Long hard days, sleepless nights
Working hard to...

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THE MUSHERS RIDE OUT

              Air colder than the heart of death
           ...

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*Image of Ukraine Chronicles by PJC.

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November Ninth the President
By Franklin Price
11/9/2016

November ninth the president elect is thought to be:
Donald Trump with outside chance will get the victory.
It's nip and tuck and hardly fought; the vote count is not done.
There are...

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Slouch Hat
When you see the hat or hear the tune so fair, 
you'll know what its about. 
The old "Slouch hat" that our Digger's wear, 
and the "Waltzing Matilda" no doubt. 
Yes we have some...

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At Dalton town where I was born
in Ozark hills of home,
There lived a man named Leamon Brown
who plowed the rich, black loam.

His wife, a sweet and gentle soul,
did not foresee his bent,
she daily worked beside...

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Irma and Florida
By Franklin Price
9/10/2017 -  10:07 AM

 We're watching several channels
To determine what's for real
Reporters on the outside,
In the wind and rain's ideal

The place now is Miami
Presentation there's the best
Storm surge rising in...

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Single stitch seams in a sensitive place
Can make you look foolish – can make you lose face
Single stitch seams – just what were we thinking
With the strain on the job or material shrinking
Believe it or...

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Reporting devastation
Even hardened newsmen cry.
We watch in consternation
As the weak among them die.

As each new revelation 
Brings more horror  to our eyes,
We share the sheer elation
Of brave rescues from the skies.

There are more heroes...

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Should 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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I was helping a customer with her internet issues, 
and remarked that before we’re done, that she will be
like one of our field technicians.

She indicated that she did not want to be a network guru.
"When...

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The News is Not the News
By Franklin Price
7/18/2015

The news is not the news
until the newsmen put their spin
to increase their ratings;
where oh where do  they begin.

They try to make each incident
appear to shake the...

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KNOCKER.B

Yes here we are in the great south land,   (Australia)
right amongst the knockers be.
Don't stick your nose up or be grand,
they'll stomp yer like a flea.
In the land of knockers they take joy,
the...

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I'll remember twenty-fifteen
for the atrocities, I've seen.
When ISIS cut a man's head off,
newsmen squealed like pigs at a trough.

The Arab spring was ill-conceived,
democracy wasn't achieved.
And refugees thus forced to flee,
capsized boats, and got drowned at...

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The news is bad, the newsmen glad
Talking heads squawking gaily on and on
Daily dispensing skewed views of the news
Expert analysis from partisan fools
They report an event, for a few seconds
Then speculate, commiserate, and try to...

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Gussie Moran, a tennis star,
Created quite a stir
When she wore lace-trimmed underwear,
Created just for her.

In 1949 this was,
On Wimbledon’s staid courts;
The British folk were scandalized,
According to reports.

Designed by Teddy Tingling,
A tennis pro and Brit,
The all-white...

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(Spenserian Sonnet) 

A flagrant man is Robert Brown, a swine;
his eyes glow red like ember coals of fire.
Will fate be kind or bring him bitter brine
and will his soul the evil one require?
Did in pretense...

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who's counting bridges in shiny town
the air-cutting sirens sound closer today
and newsmen run to compile their shows
around the sidewalk sleepers

trucks reversing shout their intent
to ear-phoned hoodies and baggy jeans
swinging necklaces of vape machines
these eyeless rats...

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The new boats came to the harbour town
for the harbour had new moorings.
Gently the boats bobbed up and down
upon the gentle water.

The newness sparkled on the boats
and the owners had new jumpers.
"Harbour Days!" the newsmen...

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TV Land won’t be the same
Without Jon Stewart’s face,
For he’s the one man on the air
That no one can replace.

With other newsmen slinking off
Because they’ve lost our trust,
“The Daily Show’s” lead anchor
Leaves all others in...

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