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My Father's Name

September 3, 2012
By Masterpiece21 DIAMOND, Denver, Colorado
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My father's name,
Buried
Underground.
His sense of elevation:
Gone.
He was only a man.
He save few,
Not millions,
From the Cold.
The death of the hero,
A well-known stranger
Shook a nation.
But my father's name
Shook only the car
On the way home
From the church.

© Alison B., Mendham, NJ

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2012 A poem about Ron, Ronnie, and Ronald.
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