climbing 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
The 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
The 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
Living 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
President 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
John 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
Peace 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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