Ima Ryma Poems

'Where's my sandwich? I'm gonna tell.'
He whined and made a face. I smiled.
Little brothers are living hell.
I should have been an only child.
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The Pope hired Michelangelo
To make the huge ceiling stand out
In the Cistine Chapel; to show
What faith and hope were all about.
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The Cold War was a power play,
Communistic U.S.S.R.
Wanting to party crash its way
In any nation, near and far.
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To sin is human nature - tiz!
Other animals by instinct
Do go about their sinless biz.
Sins are what make humans distinct.
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Muhammad Ali - one more round
Of the Olympics - London style.
Now a sports icon, world renowned.
Two thousand twelve - it's been a while
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Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt,
If any were running today
For Prez, how would have each one dealt
With the politics now in play?
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Pearl Harbor happened, so 'twas war.
The Sullivan brothers did go,
From Iowa to South Seas shore.
George, Al and Frank and Matt and Joe,
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'Methuselah' the humans say
My name as a Bristlecone pine.
Forty plus centuries today,
I come from a long living line,
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Pursuit of happiness - that tiz
A futileness for humankind.
Let's leave it to government biz
To give us all happy of mind.
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Margaret Thatcher and the press
Gave each other a lot of flack.
Journalists 'round her did possess
Lots of foreign knic and knac -
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