President Bush praised in poetry -- but there are objections

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Patient and steady with all he must bear,
Ready to meet every challenge with care,
Easy in manner, yet solid as steel,
Strong in his faith, refreshingly real.
Isn't afraid to propose what is bold,
Doesn't conform to the usual mould,
Eyes that have foresight, for hindsight won't do,
Never backs down when he sees what is true,
Tells it all straight, and means it all too.
Going forward and knowing he's right,
Even when doubted for why he would fight,
Over and over he makes his case clear,
Reaching to touch the ones who won't hear.
Growing in strength he won't be unnerved,
Ever assuring he'll stand by his word.
Wanting the world to join his firm stand,
Bracing for war, but praying for peace,
Using his power so evil will cease,
So much a leader and worthy of trust,
Here stands a man who will do what he must.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 December 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

Pupils are to ignore it ahead of a reprint next year.
As opposed to all the other poems the learn in school?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 5 December 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

It's clever the way it spells out George Bush like that.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 5 December 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

Makes him sound like a super-hero.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 5 December 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

It's good, but it's no http://www.urdupoint.com/poetry/imgs/Book-Poetry.GIF

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 5 December 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

ROFFLE ROFFLE

― Dan (ROFFLE) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 5 December 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

His college days, now seem a haze,
Of blow and southern bourbon
And vietnam, o! what a bomb!
No swiftboat was he servin.'

― andy --, Monday, 5 December 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

Good argument from removing poetry from curricula entirely. This is what happens when it gets into the wrong hands.

I'm going to go be sick now.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 5 December 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

Andy, 'hoan' is not a word.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 December 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

Hoan was the second socialist mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 5 December 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

Did anyone else notice that, in an attempt at following a structural consistency rule that meant rhymes couldn't cross word boundaries in "President George W Bush", the author had to leave the line about Bush wanting to be all-inclusive and togethery so that it didn't actually rhyme with anything?

Genius.

― Dan (ROFFLE) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 5 December 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

The first ryhme is care bear.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 5 December 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

(reading backwards, ilx style)

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 5 December 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

Even when doubted for why he would fight is pretty faithful to Bushian syntax.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 5 December 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

This made me spit up all over my co-workers.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 5 December 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

Tells it all straight, and means it all too.
Going forward and knowing he's right,

OH NOES METRIC TRAIN WRECK

― Dan (It Scans Better In The Original Zulu) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 5 December 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

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