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President Kennedy Poems - Poems about President Kennedy

Premium Memberclimbing into motorcade

...light pink suit
splatters of blood 
secret service men climbing into motorcade
Dallas Texas
November 22, 1963
some of us will never be the same...
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Categories: president kennedy, memory,
Form: List

Premium MemberThe Day the Country Died

...The Day the Country Died

November 22, 1963
three pm e.s.t
fifth grade 
pa speaker clicks on
“today, at one pm c.s.t
President Kennedy shot
he is dead”
our young substitute teacher
gasps th...
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Categories: president kennedy, history,
Form: Free verse



November 21, 1963

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 November 21, 1963                                                                             

He took the harmonica 
from the bib pocket of his overalls
blew thru left to right, low to hig...
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Categories: president kennedy, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

The Assassination

...Assassination of President Kennedy 

The tank ship was on the way to Kingston in Jamaica
The sea was deep blue, the weather calm, In a few hours, we could stretch our legs and have a beer because ...
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Categories: president kennedy, africa, bangla, beach, body,
Form: Blank verse

1960 To 1969

...I am John F. Kennedy as 
President. 
   I am a civil right activist 
100 percent. 

   I am Woodstock rock n 
Roll festival. 
   I am the first man on the moon 
Unforgettable. 

   I am And...
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Categories: president kennedy, history,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberThe New World Order

...It is not new. The thirteen families, and Freemasons have been plotting for hundreds of years. Here are the thirteen families that make up the list. Rothchild, Bundy, Collins, Ayers, Kennedy, Rockefe...
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Categories: president kennedy, bible, dark, future, jesus,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberLiving In the Sixties

...We did not travel in covered wagons, but we thought our parents did.
My mother and father lived during the big depression.
Hobos wandered around marking gates and houses with a fish.
A sign that t...
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Categories: president kennedy, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberPresident Kennedy

...I was only four when you died
                      My mama screamed, and then she cried
                 It was on our tv set, tears fall as I remember yet
                       My daddy rushed ...
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Categories: president kennedy, leadership, memory, presidents day,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberJohn F and Jacqueline Kennedy Fairy Tale Camelot

...35th President John F. Kennedy
Somehow developed major enemies
Their seemingly styled Camelot
Dissolved when extramarital affairs were caught

His wife the graceful Jacqueline Kennedy
Drew ...
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Categories: president kennedy, betrayal, love,
Form: Clerihew

Building a Wall

...I'm writing this poem in the last days of 2018. The government of the United States is shut down in a fight over the building of a border wall. I am reminded of another border wall that was erected d...
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Categories: president kennedy, america, freedom, history, political,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberPeace Dove

...Peace dove
Bay of Pigs
Childhood nightmare
President Kennedy
Peace dove

Peace dove
Viet Nam
Terror of Youth
Made 1960’s sad
Peace dove

Peace dove
The Gulf War
My daughter’s turn
In c...
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Categories: president kennedy, nostalgia, peace, soldier, war,
Form: Cinqku

President Kennedy

...President Kennedy 

50 years ago, how young we were I was on a happy 
Little ship that had crew enough so no one got overworked
The ship ploughing blue water on her way to Jamaica,
It was a wond...
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Categories: president kennedy, absence, america,
Form: Blank verse

America Wasn'T So Bad Back Then

...We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two of us shoot the...
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Categories: president kennedy, america,
Form: Prose

90's Grunge Blitz

...Thrift shop miracles of multi-
layered mysteries,insomniac-
drifters stumbling up the highway to
a water-logged Nirvana.
Stuttering hymns to flannel saints 
who have not yet; joined the cult of
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Categories: president kennedy, addiction, age, america, angst,
Form: Blitz

Death and Dying In Dallas

...Death and Dying in Dallas

Death and dying in Dallas seems to have all 
started with the death of President Kennedy.

The following is all true and actually, recently
happened in my life. The e...
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Categories: president kennedy, allegory, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Couplet

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