Short Powell Poems

I Salute You General Colin
Your Becoming The First African American Secretary Of State
Your Heroism standing up for All Of Us Americans 
A True American Hero for all to Look Up to...

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"The trees are dying, the sun’s not shining
No birds are singing, Their music stopped playing
The wind stopped blowing, The river’s not flowing
Life is fading, it’s fading away"
From "Life Is Fading" - Jayla Powell
Rithimus Divisa 8
October 7, 2020...

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Colin Powell Horn Haiku

One was wise old owl
I had thought of Colin Powell
My face has a scowl.

Have lost my respect
Criticism did detect
Can't be more direct.

Seems like politics
Of trade full of many tricks
Off me always ticks.

What do you think of that one?

Jim Horn...

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   George W. Bush, so much maligned
   for the economic collapse of 2008-09 

     Yet would that we today had his outstanding Secretaries of State
     Colin Powell or Condoleeza Rice handling the M-E would be first-rate



     ___________________________________ 
       'M-E' stands for 'Middle East'
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forty  one years ago you blessed us with your birth
now today as we gather to bid you a tearful goodbye 
God seemed fit to suddenly take you from this earth

although for your mom we try to be brave 
i know we cant help but cry
but randy we will see you again 
when we meet you in heaven in the sweet by and by 
R.I,P randy powell beloved son  and brother and nephew  and cousin and  and friend...

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First Black American Secretary of State, COLIN POWELL, (1937-2021)
Served in the G. W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, and Jimmy Carter administrations,
He said, “Success is the result of hard work…and learning from failure,”
His hobby was restoring old cars; hardly knew the meaning of vacations. 

written January 20, 2022
especially for "A Celebrity Epitaph" Poetry Contest
sponsored by Michelle Faulkner...

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                Summer San Francisco Valentine



                 Your heart beats in me 
                 Loving you seasonlessly
                 Under summer stars


 
                 Our silk kimonos
                 Bamboo fever, Powell Street
                 A cable car clangs
                 


                           
                             July 1, 2020
                             11:30am PST

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Heavens Gate the crowd to be
Blues-ed and Rocked
Lures me
Forgotten cream
Of our Music past
Down on Earth
It will always last
 
 
Hendrix, Kossoff guitarists so
Bon Scott, leader we all know
Phil Lynott bassist past
Cozy Powell their memories last
 
What these guys have left behind
Future players they will find
Its our right what we must do
Portray their sounds to me and you
 
What they have done
Is the reason why
They now are
The Great Gig in the Sky....

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We have lived 
In the best of times
Where music was clean
And poetry rhymes.

Where a girl could walk
The streets all alone
Without the safety
Of a 911 phone.

Where decency led
And civility was the rule
No one suffered
The acts of the fool.

When it was okay
To let out a howl
At the precision proficiency
Of Frank Sinatra and Eleanor Powell.

Sad that such things
Now bring on a yawn.
Such times of enjoyment
So innocent and gone.

by E. Marshall Evans...

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The epic behind the satellite epic that was and remains...the career of lewis Findlay.....


He who calls his brother races is endangered of council


Thank you twiggy for all those dedications of carly simon
And you're re so vain



Vanity of vanities 
My darling Sheba


You were my joy and pleasure my sorry shame.

We brought the midnight sun to rise

Across the eb,ny starlite skies

Again like us more shall not come


Barbara srreisand , Kris kristofferson...

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