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Right Stuff Poems - Poems about Right Stuff

Diner Might
...In nineteen sixty-three, May twenty-eight, three youngsters in a Woolworths five-and-dime sat down and asked for coffee. This was war. In Jackson, Mississippi, way back when, outrageous things l......

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Categories: right stuff, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Annie Londonderry
...In 1894, Annie climbed on a bike Told the doubters to take a hike Planned to cycle cross the planet, found sponsors, took a gun Though she died 50 years after, her legend had begun. How much is......

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Categories: right stuff, adventure, america, courage, endurance,
Form: Lyric



Transparent
...For what it's worth, You had me, For what it's worth, I can see. My love was not enough. Not quite the right stuff. Marooned at sea, a soul afloat, Drifting out with dwindling hope. Shim......

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Categories: right stuff, love, love hurts, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 'dirty Laundry'
...'Dirty Laundry!' Tell me why hearts compose when all poems are born in a world full of wastrels (where weakest get slain?) There are bloodstains besmirching blank sheets ......

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Categories: right stuff, faith, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Mist Looks Lovely On the Mountains Today
...The rain, from a distance, Grey lines hinting existence, Falling on faces of jagged risen earth, A moment to remember; worth, As the mist looks lovely on the mountains today. A moment to ......

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Categories: right stuff, life,
Form: Rhyme



An Indifferent Christian Pleas
...AN INDIFFERENT CHRISTIAN PLEAS TO A FUNDAMENTAL PREACHER Tell me what I like to hear! Come on, preacher, tickle my ear! Don’t preach out against my sin, Or you won’t many friendships win. I’m ......

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Categories: right stuff, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Houseplant Not Happy
...My lovely Aloe Vera houseplant. Why are you so unhappy? Is it me? What more could I have done? I dusted and washed your spiky leaves. I waited until your roots were dry before I watered them ......

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Categories: right stuff, garden,
Form: Free verse
Fabulous Fabiola
...There's a girl that I adore. She works in a flower store. I love her with all my heart. Yes, I know we'll never part. Fabulous Fabiola She's the woman I need. Fabulous Fabiola ......

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Categories: right stuff, feelings, happy, love, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Opening Day With a Little Delay
...Opening Day with a Little Delay Take me out to the ball game Of balls and strikes - bloopers and perfect games; Basket catches, ERA’S, country hardball; Foul balls, the pick off, intentiona......

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Categories: right stuff, baseball, celebration, sports,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Td-The Donald
...Ivanka and Melania walking the 5th Avenue Street Red Wolves stalking their beat Being ever so sweet Looking at the window dressing Critical topics they are addressing Knowing Daddy Donald w......

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Categories: right stuff, america, art, best friend,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lockdown Week Three
...Three weeks into lockdown, we're still in one piece, the house is now looking pristine, we've dusted and shined every surface we see now only the air left to clean. We've searched every cranny, w......

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Categories: right stuff, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Enough
...Somewhere along the way we lost it and I cry wondering if I could have stopped it. Just my hindsight saw it all unfold. For years now it has been more than my heart can hold. Mentally, yo......

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Categories: right stuff, angst, change, conflict, emotions,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Rest In Peace-Kirk Douglas and Robert Conrad
...Kirk Douglas Today we heard we lost Kirk Who never needed a shirt Always a lovely flirt that Kirk Joining Moses in heaven Who we watched in the movie way past eleven Hopefully God enjoyed......

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Categories: right stuff, appreciation, fathers day, film,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Burnt To a Crisp
...burnt to a crisp - Christmas. but the town is famous for its restoration, though pets be gone - eight in all; one sits on his lap, joining the family’s source of hope, lifting the communi......

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Categories: right stuff, christmas, heartbreak, hero, loss,
Form: Free verse
Profound Magnificance the Legend of Ghetto Sushi
...He stood in the middle of The ring and asked the Members of The Right Stuff inc. To stop the B.S. And start making things Right for the people. In his lavish robe And pink mask Ghetto Sushi ......

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Categories: right stuff, jobs, music, myth, repetition,
Form: Ballade

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