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I dislike to change my picture or my icon you knew what I meant...

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Categories: icon, tiger,
Form: Senryu
A Once Beloved Icon
I remember only eight years in the past A once beloved icon shocked a nation Instantly he became an outcast disrupting the flow, the Cheeto now hated A business tycoon with many failures turned successes Strong, bombastic and not the most polished speaker Vitriol ensues but he endures the endless stresses becoming a captivating political leader To some he was Americas champion, strong...

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Categories: icon, political,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member My Brush With An Icon
Jackie Robinson and I go way way back To the spring of nineteen forty-six A Montreal ballpark on a April afternoon The day the world was transfixed The colour barrier that existed in baseball Was about to come crashing down After many decades of ugly discrimination Jackie would become renowned It would take a special kind of individual To withstand all the slurs and...

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Categories: icon, baseball, celebration, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Leslie Neilson- Laughs, Knee Slaps and Good For the Soul Eyerolls
Leslie Neilson Straight faced reveals a pun But what surely made him squirrely They wouldn't stop calling him Shirley Leslie Neilson Armed with wit and naked gun Genius buffoonery unparalleled Save for what Peter Seller's Clueso upheld Leslie Neilson Dracula loving it as a dead one Giving Renfield insect currency And causing Mel brooks an emeRRRgency Leslie Neilson A parody on the run Of spoofery not wrongfully accused Only keeping...

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Categories: icon, tribute,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Ode To a Female Folk Icon
Joan Chandos Baez is an American singer Eighteen years old, first of the later date protest folk singers Famous before Bob Dylan! Songwriter, musician, and activist. Folk music of protest and social justice, in the fields of nonviolence, civil rights, workers' rights, and the environment Made over 30 albums Fluent in Spanish and English, recorded songs in at least six...

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Categories: icon, appreciation, celebrity,
Form: Ode



Premium Member Canadian Icon, Emily Carr
"Art is art, nature is nature you cannot improve upon it ... Pictures should be inspired by nature but made of the soul of the artist. It is the soul of the individual that counts." _ Emily Carr, Canadian Artist and Author,...

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Categories: icon, day, international, women,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Taylor Hawkins
Taylor Hawkins: Foo-Fighters Yesterday my heart was broken to news which I’d awoken Such a tragedy and untimely loss And now a new road you cross Your musical spirit and infectious laughter will live on with all of us forever after All shouting: Condolences to your family Thoughts are with you, An iconic drummer Rest In Beats! 1972-2022 Written 3/27/22...

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Categories: icon, appreciation, celebrity, death,
Form: Rhyme
Last of the Rhyme
You'll put up a statue and say I'm a poet When all of you worship what I'll never know it And go on to rhyming what's left in the moment When statues are showing the glow of the loment And I'll be impressed when the honor is mine And the statues are tumbling for the last of the rhyme...

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Categories: icon, analogy, character, dedication, identity,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Ironic Icon
Write on my gravestone. It was a typing mistake. Not a random skip. Rather, it dropped correctly. Was neater than other lines....

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Categories: icon, emotions, fate, grave, magic,
Form: Tanka
Indian Elephants
Indian Elephants are listed as, endangered They are a cultural icon, in India and throughout Asia traveling migratory routes, while eating grasses, bark, leaves and roots to maintain the integrity of their habitat, that gives them prosperity Indian Elephants, spend up to 19 hours feeding a day with a production of about, 220 pounds of dun per day traveling...

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Categories: icon, animal, beautiful, earth, education,
Form: Rhyme
American Beauty
Hair golden like the suns rays, Figure that was va-va-voom, That wiggle when you walked, Men stared women frowned, That beauty spot was not needed, Acting like a dumb blond, Not dumb, nor blond a redhead she was, Actress and sex symbol, Talented through and through, She died to young, Legend, icon remembered by everyone, Murder, accident or suicide, We will never know, Norma jean remembered....

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Categories: icon, america, beautiful, beauty, remember,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Marilyn
Marilyn, Little Girl Lost. . Little girl lost who never grew up burdened throughout her short life by a lack of her Mothers love. Thrown into the limelight beauty made her a star loved by everyone but never felt good enough so insecure Longed for a family always searching for true love. She became a pin-up and every man's dream because of her alluring beauty femininity and sensuality hiding the real person...

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Categories: icon, abuse, beautiful, beauty, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Icon
She nurtures ...

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Categories: icon, woman,
Form: Tetractys
Premium Member Visual Icon Commonly Blue-
Oh! commonly blue royalty purple you how can I surmise or even be surprised by your cavalier Jonty fair debonair plush you must be courteous imagery ion a visual icon 10/16/20 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020...

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Categories: icon, allusion, beautiful, blue, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Makaveli
In loving memory of a legend deeply missed Taken 2 soon which gets me pi##ed The best musician in lifes childhood Highly misunderstood by ignorant do goods Wrongly accused of so many crimes Punished for speakin up so many times The envy of so many wannabes My inspiration to write with ease I grew up with your music and screen shows Feels...

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Categories: icon, america, black african american,
Form: Rhyme

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