Lawrence Beck
Nicely written, Joe.
2013-04-07

countryfog
John Wayne always seemed to me someone larger than life, and in that sense someone one might like to have been but could never really relate to; he was bigger and better than we would ever be. Gary Cooper was someone I did relate to but only when I was older, someone merely mortal who struggled, doubted, feared and sometimes failed, showing us how in the end the courage to face the bad guys is something come to only after facing ourselves. He was flawed, just as we are, but he showed us that character is often what we make of our failings and flaws needn't be fatal.
2013-04-01

Like this, well done!
2013-03-30

Commentally Ill
hi noon, i am commentally ill. i like you - you are real and your flaws hang out in all the right places. your author did a pretty neat job on you. gotta go for now. bye noon.
2013-03-30

Like Atticus Finch, G.C. displayed a quiet, heroic manliness, the sort that makes the rest of us stand a little taller ourselves.

This is nicely done, understated, as was the man. That you chose this character to sketch says something about yourself (as all poems do).
2013-03-29