Short Roosevelt Poems

A couth poetic platypus,
Choosing words that are never rude,
Carries a heavy blunderbuss,
And softly croons a platitude....

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Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt  
With women's rights mostly dealt
But her husband Franklin
Let "Missy" Lehand spank him...

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Most Americans just didn't know
Franklin Roosevelt had polio -- 
   He sat in his iron chair
   And he sweat like a bear -- 
His powerful image all for show...

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Teddy Roosevelt carried a big stick
Walking softly 'till he had to move quick
  He charged up San Juan Hill
  Thinking, 'Who'll foot the bill?' 
He made it into a Hollywood flick...

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“The only thing to fear is fear itself”
FDR's speech rings true for the world's health
Nothing's changed
Cept for some names
Freedom's still out to lunch and the air still smells...

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Mrs. Elinor Roosevelt championed society's outcasts
Asians, widows, orphans, blacks -- all those downcast
   Yet as six million perished in World War Two
   She refused to speak up for a single Jew...

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Do you know why they're called “Teddy Bears”
After Theodore Roosevelt, because Teddy cared
A captured bear, he refused to kill
A kindness remembered still
Quite “unsportsmanlike” he was heard to declare...

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Dinner at the White House

Theodore Roosevelt a robust, Republican president
had to Booker T. Washington a dinner invite sent.
Roosevelt was progressive for his day
and the segregated south had much to say.
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When Teddy Roosevelt married he built a 14 bedroom “cottage”
Describing it as such as he and his wife Edith foxtrotted
Must be really quite nice
Surely a roll of the dice
Being born into a wealthy family allows one to flaunt it...

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WILL THE REEL* TEDDY PLEASE STAND UP

John Alexander acts a Roosevelt - Teddy.
Bugle calls him up the stairs, steady.
With great veracity and a capacity to frame -
his character as a lunatic or a hero, just the same.

6/13/2017
Clerihew Form

* as in a movie reel (a play on words)...

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In my bed under the sheet
In my home on Roosevelt street
In a city they call Mesa
In the lower part of Arizona
In a state in the U.S.A
On a planet called Earth they say
In a solar system third from the sun
In the Milkyway where life was hung
In a universe where all is included
In the mind of God, begun and concluded...

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Teddy P. Roosevelt in 1912 feeling sassy, hale and hearty,
Promptly formed a wonderful new impressive political party.
Women suffrage was on the agenda along with primary direct,
Many educated women jumped onboard, his agenda to inspect.
Yet would not get the vote for decades, no matter how clever and arty,
It was called by many supporters and friends the happy Bull Moose Party....

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Teddy Roosevelt once said -
"speak softly
and carry a big stick”

Donald 
in referencing this statement 
might respond- 
I may not speak softly-
or do anything softly
but I am loved by all
and carry a big stick
a very big hard stick
with very big balls 
in my very big head
and all my very 
very good friends 
all of them 
Hispanic, black , white and Islamic
men, women and others
love me 
and them...

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Off to Mount Rushmore
To see the presidents:
Washington, Jefferson,
Lincoln, and Roosevelt,
Men of enormous stature
In the land of The Lakota,
Keystone, South Dakota
Fourteen years undertaking
Borglum’s work breathtaking,
With sixty-foot-high faces
Carved into granite outcrop,
One of our country’s
Most celebrated places.

written August 15, 2021

Featured on All Poetry's Front Page
September 28, 2021...

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Political Snakes
Written: by Miracle Man
2-6-2020

A snake never feels threatened,
because it has the innate ability to camouflage itself,
It blends in with it’s surroundings for self preservation.
But no matter how often it sheds its skin,
A snake remains a snake.

When they call the roll in the senate,
the senators do not know whether to answer “present” or “not guilty.”
Theodore Roosevelt
...

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In days of old so I’m told Theodore Roosevelt did explain he had no use for the hyphen in any American name. 
And now one can see how the hyphen such a tiny grammatical mark has pushed us apart. 
We are all Americans who may hail from distant shores but now this is our home worth protecting and fighting for.
Do not let the hyphen define you ,where you once were is now behind you.
Let us join together one and all for we are Americans...

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In Spirit Haiku

all Americans
story tellers dream catchers~
drum circle homage

Other

First in war—First in peace                  -George Washington        
A divine inspired Declaration               -Thomas Jefferson
National Parks—Bold Conservation       -Theodore Roosevelt
Emancipation—fight doesn't sease       -Abraham Lincoln


For Presidents Day
Written 2/21/22...

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With Southern charm
He forged the hold
Of foreign gold
On town and farm.

He gave us two
Proud presidents—
No accidents--
Yet hid from view.

I guess he felt
That Wilson could
Be used, as should
Be Roosevelt.

He coached the game
To win us all:
The Federal
Reserve’s its name.

And he’s to thank 
For nations leagued
And then intrigued
Behind One Bank.

You ask my source?
Read his own book,
A blood-bathed look
At rule by force....

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Sarah Palin Replies to Her History Teacher

By Elton Camp

I don’t care if you were my history teacher in school
By what you ask, you surely must think I’m a fool
For you to say that to your class I now should return,
Why that’s ridiculous and makes my face red burn

I assure you that I know American history very well
And that about almost anything I am very able to tell
You can’t know how bad about your remarks I felt
I’m not some dumb blonde like Eleanor Roosevelt...

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So easy to call him Titch.
He's just a tiny teddy-bear.
Yet I, a grown-up man,
feel a strange affection.

Affection, yes, for something fluffy,
and all you can do is look at it,
talk to it – or should I say “him”? –
and leave it on a shelf, table, desk.

Ah, yes, so much history:
Theodore Roosevelt.
He hated the name Teddy,
but folk would call him that.

So thank you, Theodore.
I will not call you Teddy.
You hated it, I know,
so this teddy we call Titch.


(29 Jul 2023)...

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