[Oe List ...] Adventures of Joe Biden--Inauguration Day!

[mellowmilan2 at gmail.com]

For Sarah, I may have posted this one just after election day but . . .

 

Adventures of Joe Biden

 

Joe Biden decided to run again

Though his flawed first attempt had ended in pain

A second run faltered in twenty O eight

Which most likely helped his political fate

Obama asked Joe to be his Vice President

Joe Biden said “Yes!” To the White House he went

The economy was teetering on the brink of recession

Joe helped Barack stave off a depression

Joe Biden’s campaign was going down

Then in South Carolina he turned it around.

 

Joe Biden went on to win nomination

Amidst a pandemic gripping the nation

His opponent was nasty, he trumpeted proudly

He threatened and blustered and shouted loudly

“I’ll beat you Joe Biden—I’ll trample you under”

“I’ll eat you alive—I’ll tear you asunder”

Joe Biden, Joe Biden didn’t worry

Joe Biden didn’t scream or scurry

He just kept going, he wasn’t all hesitant

He just got elected our forty-sixth President.

 

Milan Hamilton

November 8, 2020

 

 

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No mention of Kamala? Or is that a separate poem?

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On Jan 21, 2021, at 9:30 AM, Milan Hamilton via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> > wrote:



I wrote a lot of ‘Adventures of Obama’ during the times now past. Ogden Nash, who wrote comic poetry in the 1920s, wrote ‘Adventures of Isabel,’ a 40 line poem in rhyming couplets. I took my poetic license and wrote a series of the Adventures of Obama in 10 line segments at a time. Each stanza tells the of encountering seemingly impossible odds and turning them into victory in unexpected ways. The original Isabel was a little girl who met a ravenous bear, an ugly witch, a one-eyed giant, and a despairing doctor and used her “magic” powers to win out in the end. I am continuing to use my poetic license with a nod to Ogden Nash in the Adventures of Joe Biden.

 

Adventures of Joe Biden—Inauguration Day

 

Joe Biden showed up for inauguration

Knowing he’d face a divided nation

Mitch and his minions known for obstruction

Smiling as though there’d been no eruption

Of venomous attackers hunting their heads

At the urging of Donald who now they did dread

Joe Biden, Joe Biden didn’t worry

Joe Biden didn’t scream or scurry

He calmly took his oath, made his stand

And brought civility back to our land.

 

Milan Hamilton

January 20, 2021

 

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