As usual there were many fine entries which also makes it tough on judging. It came down to two and the deciding factor was one of these two poems was not on subject.
Thank you all for entering and I hope you had fun in doing so.
I hope you will join me in congratulating Mark for his winning poem........stan

Ford Never Ran

Submitted by remark on Mon, 2017-06-05 02:50

Times were tough, but dad, a job he had
Fine clothing and hair, we all had lunch fare
Ten of us total and this one the target,
target of the jealous, those who didn’t care

The route was small, and spread out worst of all
Pennies and dimes and the MIAs were not fine
The dead on the front page were more day by day
Images of hell, depressing the way

Watergate was no bother, too young to know
Squeaky soon pulled a gun at your show,
show (when I saw something drastic had changed)
The times had changed, home were the soldiers

Unwelcome, feared and forsaken
Gerry, don’t fret, there were no more taken.