Girl Memorial Poems

Coleen Moore 1898-1988.
An Angel Born In Michigan 
Her personality and good looks
Took her to fortune and fame
On stage and the silent silver screen
A longed for...

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Look look it’s crazy I’m the one they want to represent
Young black girl,I can probably be the president
I’m the voice of the youth,you heard my...

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Light
Can simply not be held
                   It finds...

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To All Who Gave Their Lives

Far across the seas, they went, to keep this great land ….safe and free.
I was just a wee bit of...

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The sights of the stars and stripes,
Invoke in me a sensation of pride,
When I hear The Star Spangled Banner,
I’m besieged with chills running up and...

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The Killing Fields”
Stepping across these bodies
Makes me ill

Pools of blood stitched
In the soles of my shoes       

Body parts dripping...

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See the girls on the corner 
In tight tanks 
And micro minis
Popping gum
Locking eyes 
Driving boys wild
See the sunlight 
Outline their curls in gold
Memories of...

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Bright blonde-haired girl
competitive
From the start, made a nine
Mile ride
With a spirited heart, straight
to the 
Summit of Telegraph Hill, I’ll
guess
She freewheeled back ‘just for
the thrill’

A gifted...

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Memorial Day

Memories that have been made 
Lives celebrated for the price they paid 
Sacrificing for a country 
Who has has went down so bluntly 
Values...

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That giggle that wiggle and a saucy laugh to boot,
Star of film, theatre and tv,
A naughty bubbly blond in a small package,
Some called her brassy...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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There are a few facts I know. 
You weren't happy at that moment. 
I controlled you, puppet on a string.
You never had my friendship.

Except on...

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Behind The Curtain Door
There's one in front,
          there's one in back,
Both keyless doors,
   ...

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Mami Swirl   Rapper girl
Distant Star
Songbird in the morning mist
Hold me   Against the dawn
From the wrong
That this life has now to bear
For...

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Postcard 1
by Miklós Radnóti
written August 30, 1944
translated by Michael R. Burch
 
Out of Bulgaria, the great wild roar of the artillery thunders,
resounds on the mountain...

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