Connie Was a Cheerleader
...Connie was a cheerleader
bright white toothed smile
bouncing boobs
short skirt legs running long
through school boy fantasies
friday nights her stage
crisp November air her makeup
Robert was...
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Categories:
norman rockwell, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Spirit of the Snow
...1930
It started snowing during the night of Thanksgiving and until the next day.
The afternoon sky was a sullen bluish-gray.
The delicate white crystals touched down on top of the smooth skin of...
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Categories:
norman rockwell, remember,
Form: Free verse
In the Anywhere Burbs
...Here in suburbia - anywhere,
it's easy to be almost happy.
We have time and permission
to talk to neighbors, wave at strangers
as we stroll our leafy streets,
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Categories:
norman rockwell, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Picture Perfect Thanksgiving
...table filled with joy
perfectly browned plump beauty
young and old hold hands
memories of times long past
as if by Norman Rockwell...
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Categories:
norman rockwell, childhood, memory, thanksgiving,
Form: Tanka
Norman Rockwell Scene
...I had to stop the car
to take another look.
It could have been a page
from Norman Rockwell’s book.
A farmhouse painted white,
a porch with rocking chairs,
chickens in the barnyard
scratch...
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Categories:
norman rockwell, art, humor, imagery, memory,
Form: Quatrain
New School-Contest
...As she was walking to a brand new school,
four strange men walked
with just her.
She didn't
know
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Categories:
norman rockwell, courage, school,
Form: Tetractys
Not the Nine
...Painting ~ Freedom From Want ~ painted by Norman Rockwell
A skin and nerve disease unspeakable -
outcast, unclean; they came to be restored.
In all, ten lepers Jesus healed in full
but...
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Categories:
norman rockwell, appreciation, blessing, god, holiday,
Form: Sonnet
The Connoisseur
...I saw a painting as a younger man;
some artwork I enjoyed - this not so much.
Not ready yet for abstract, off I ran
to view portraits, landscapes, still lifes and such.
A decade later, we met u...
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Categories:
norman rockwell, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Autumn
...Feeling inside soul of time and weather change
Colder weather arriving and autumn harvest,
Full natural growth and the autumnal equinox glows
Wonderful time for a football game, hometown competiti...
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Categories:
norman rockwell, autumn, earth, farm, football,
Form: Rhyme
The Presidential Medal of Freedom
...Previous winners were Elie Wiesel,
Mother Teresa, Bob Hope,
Norman Rockwell, Rosa Parks,
Walt Disney and a Pope*…
B.B.King and Yo Yo Ma,
Dylan and Pearl Bailey,
Frank Sinatra, E.B. White,
To...
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Categories:
norman rockwell, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
How Quaint It Is
...it's like a norman rockwell photo
this quaint little town not far away
where white picket fences stand
banners and flags wave in the breeze
every lamppost tells a tale
of their proud, unforgotte...
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Categories:
norman rockwell, america, military, patriotic, soldier,
Form: Ode
Warm Poetic Jots
...The frightful winter solstice approaches
with an opaque snow globe life intertwine.
Stars sprinkle early, romance encroaches
upon one headstrong to dread wintertime.
Power poles are overthrown ...
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Categories:
norman rockwell, childhood, games, nostalgia, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Busy Business Above
...Scratchy, scratchy, what's that sound,
Atop my home space, high and round?
Could there be one self-served mouse,
Schemed to steal my sweet, dry house?
No, those sounds don't seem that soft,
Fo...
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Categories:
norman rockwell, animal, happy, home, image,
Form: Rhyme
First Snow
...The first snow of the winter,
And it's really coming down.
Large geometric flakes,
Drift slowly to the ground.
Painting trees and fences,
In garlands of dazzling white.
Making all it touches,...
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Categories:
norman rockwell, seasons, snow,
Form: Quatrain
Life In a Norman Rockwell Painting
...I want to live in a Norman Rockwell painting
Where I'm surrounded by the simple times
If you don't know what I mean let me explain it
It consists of front porch swings and Mom's apple pie
Sunda...
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Categories:
norman rockwell, life,
Form: Light Verse
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