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I Promise, It's Nothing Personal

...
Only twenty-five years since I took your name,
fluorescent lights, a government building,
the officiant a stranger we met that morning—
no pictures, no rehearsals, just vows
read like lines on ...

Categories: newsreels, endurance, growth, life,
Form: Free verse

Hollywood's Golden Years

...Ah! The Golden Years of Hollywood
And those old black and white movies
Some were cinematic disasters
But some you could call quite groovy

Even now, my heart skips a beat
When one appea...

Categories: newsreels, memory,
Form: Rhyme

Hollywood's Golden Years

...Ah! The Golden Years of Hollywood
And those old black and white movies
Some were cinematic disasters
But some you could call quite groovy

Even now, my heart skips a beat
When one appea...

Categories: newsreels, fun,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Remembering the 1950's

...Baseball cards and hula hoops
  Baloney sandwich, Campbell’s soup

Howdy Doody and Mickey Mouse
  Mamie and Ike in the White House

American Bandstand, Rock 'n Roll
  Elvis the Pelvis, Nat Kin...

Categories: newsreels, fun, nostalgia, remember,
Form: Couplet

Jesus In Town

...Jesus in Town
David J Walker 

Jesus could explain life like no other
Riding in the back of the 56 Chevy pickup 
The Farm to Market roads 
Crossing the country of a summer  
Lost in Lea County...

Categories: newsreels, allegory, jesus,
Form: Rhyme

A Small Part of the Story of Being

...having arrived at this juncture
of learning the man made structure
of creations, gods, demons and time
and various situations not quite so sublime
where nothing under the sun appears to be new
l...

Categories: newsreels, creation, philosophy, planet, truth,
Form: Rhyme

The Empty Prey

...And if by love they should be saved
lift them by angels
in innocence to a horizons trumpet

They who have fallen unnumbered
to the hate of bullets
and the factions of brush aside politics

An...

Categories: newsreels, political, war,
Form: Free verse

A Wartime Childhood

...I was seven years old when began World War Two
And eleven became by the time it was through.
I have vague recollections of things when that small,
But events during wartime I clearly recall.

Si...

Categories: newsreels, america, history, patriotic, soldier,
Form: Rhyme

A Change I Would Like To See

...A complex world we've made this earth;
     our times more difficult today,
because our globe has surely shrunk
     with messaging seconds away.

In olden days, it took a week
     to see news...

Categories: newsreels, change, internet, world,
Form: Quatrain

Hollywood's Golden Years

...Ah! The Golden Years of Hollywood
And those old black and white movies
Some were cinematic disasters
But some you could call quite groovy

Even now, my heart skips a beat
When one appea...

Categories: newsreels, film, , western,
Form: Quatrain

Lest We Forget the Horses

...Watching old newsreels sadness washes over me 

Highstepping horses, gentle eyes transformed in fear 
valiantly charging under men that could not yield

Amid the noise of cannons, over the death...

Categories: newsreels, appreciation, eulogy, freedom, history,
Form: Ballade

What Makes You Tick

...Its the simple things in life that turn my wheels
a stroll over the moors, I don't need newsreels

The beauty of the full moon to my heart appeals
sounds of the night, I hear high pitched squeals

No...

Categories: newsreels, life,
Form: Couplet

Marriage of Science, Law, and Emotion

...The limits of which you speak
Have gathered upset underneath
Pens that prognosticate
Stolen imagery, a thieving magpie
Dreams her dark blessing
 
She has no care for truth
Her only penchant is expose...

Categories: newsreels, adventure, art, childhood,
Form: Free verse