Woody Guthrie
...Woodrow Wilson Guthrie
sang about the people who lived roughly
he wrote and sang earthy songs a plenty
and he was friend and mentor to many
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Categories:
woodrow wilson, music,
Form: Clerihew
The Voice of Reason
...It isn’t the voice of Aristotle, Plato, Shakespeare or Anton Chekhov riding down red square. It isn’t the voice of Adolf Hitler rumbling underground or Dwight D. Eisenhower building construction in t...
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Categories:
woodrow wilson, adventure, confidence, courage, culture,
Form: Free verse
Change Ability
...Woodrow Wilson, back then a progressive
Now considered a wholesale regressive ~
Just think, Hilary / DJT *
What will you soon be ~
Deplorable compulsive-obsessive
*If Rep...
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Categories:
woodrow wilson, change, future, history, irony,
Form: Limerick
Veterans Day
...The Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel lit red, white, and blue
On the eleventh day of November, there’ll be a crowd.
All day local beaches have folks coming to pay respect,
today as they c...
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Categories:
woodrow wilson, veterans day,
Form: Villanelle
New World Order
...Springing up, like a cactus sprout, after the First-World-War,
The concept of New-World-Order did not touch deeper core;
Like, water drop on lotus leaf, it stood touched and untouched,
Sometimes i...
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Categories:
woodrow wilson, life, world,
Form: Rhyme
Acknowledgements
...1. John Desmond Patrick Keegan
2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
3. Sally Aline Mae Beller
4. Charles Edward A. Berry
5. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
6. Béla Ferenc Dezso Blaskó
7. Joh...
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Categories:
woodrow wilson, appreciation, dedication, inspiration,
Form: List
The Rum Runners
...The Rum Runners
Dry was the USA a hundred years ago.
Prohibition just begun, and spirits running low.
Then, to the rescue, fishermen, fresh from the Georges Bank,
Weighed down their boats with ...
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Categories:
woodrow wilson, america, drink, history, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Mother's Day Tribute
...Mother's Day Tribute
To Mother
Things are complicated, and I’m frustrated
And gag to hear you say with parental authority
“When you’re older, you’ll understand bett...
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Categories:
woodrow wilson, childhood, family, growing up,
Form: Verse
Nineseventeenpm
...TIME IS NO MSYTERY
EACH AND EVERY SECTION HAS A SECOND
AND IS HISTORY
this is my confused telling of my destiny
better dreaming of this calamity
and I am a visionary
or am I a visionary
an...
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Categories:
woodrow wilson, analogy, celebrity, change, community,
Form: Free verse
Find Fun From Four
...Find fun from four,
Starting with four-wheeler;
A vehicle like fancy car
Comforts the mind of the driver.
The Fantastic Four film
Fills your heart with excitement;
Superheroes emerge vi...
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Categories:
woodrow wilson, fun,
Form: Verse
American Green
...American green
The tree of life gave birth to a nation and these men who helped nature
shape it. The father of our Country George Washington the 1st President.
There...
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Categories:
woodrow wilson, america, money,
Form: Free verse
Haunting Spirit At Monmouth University
...Home to President Woodrow Wilson
Ivy scaled Monmouth’s outer walls
Laughter of youth from decades past
Resonated in marble-floored halls
The theater building was set apart
Further down Cedar A...
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Categories:
woodrow wilson, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Presidential Trivia
...President's Day is approaching so I thought I would further your education,
By revealing useless trivia about some of the dudes who've served our nation.
President Washington actually had to borr...
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Categories:
woodrow wilson, funny, history, old, old,
Form: Couplet
Conservative Man
...Woodrow Wilson said,"A
conservative is a man who just sits
and thinks, mostly sits."
Well, if he mostly sits,
I call that laziness.
If his feet were planted firmly in the
air, like FDR says,
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Categories:
woodrow wilson, funny, political
Form: Free verse
The Lusitania (Part Two)
...Explosions rock the boat;
Ocean gushes inside.
The battered stern won't float,
All controls lock their slide.
Listing fifteen degrees,
The lifeboats fail to launch.
Swift decent lugs a squeez...
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Categories:
woodrow wilson, history, war
Form: Ballad
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