Risks of High Public Office

                                               Attribution: Patrick Bloodgood (US Army)

Image: 1  The Eternal Flames under construction  (here)

                                                                                                      Attribution: Tony

Image: 2 The Eternal flames burn at the grave-sites
of President JFK and First Lady Jackie at Arlington (here)

We Wordle #20:
eternal, flame glinting, magic, grace, follows
cycle, memory celebratory, shape, grandmother
usually, bowl, border, planet,

An eternal flame burns
Glinting in the sun
As if by magic
To grace following
a cycle of memory
That went back a 
few generations

Of celebratory and celebrated 
status shaped by a matriarch
A grandmother is usually
as influential as in a big family
that bowled over borders 
like a queen by any measure
that was Rose Kennedy

Let’s start with Joe Sr a senior
diplomat to Britain and
Joe Jr groomed for political office
but sadly perished a hero in the war

Left to Jack and Robert who
rose to the highest but mercilessly
cut down by assassin’s bullets
While Sen. Edward was done in
by Chappaquiddick

John Jr a generation after 
had hopes dashed 
when his light plane crashed

Two well-known families
that transcended the globe
the planet in fact
The Kennedys and Onassis
Were cheated of extending
their dynasty which could have a
profound effect on world history
had it not been for Dallas 1963

For Red Wolf Poems hosted by Irene with Wordle: #20