UNDER FESS PARKER'S SPELL

answer to a 12 word challenge

I confess I loved Fess

at the age of eight or nine

for Davy Crockett I would pine

Who knows the reasons

a young boy could identify 

with a TV mountain man?

Could it be the seasons

that he did exemplify

doing good for all that one can?

Or the way he could charge,

from behind a large stone,

stooped and loosely carrying his rifle?

His coon skin cap with tail so large,

running in moccasins, alone,

a man with whom no one would trifle.

Could it be his leather breeches, 

or his buckskin with waving fringe,

or maybe his quiet vocal quality?

His strong determination could reach us.

From adversity he would not cringe.

He treated every person with equality.

Too young to understand what it meant

that he produced and directed himself

and invested his money well.

A talented man who’s made a mint,

who spent each day not on a shelf.

He could frame a scene to sell.

... “King of the Wild Frontier”,

is a tune I still remember well.

Maybe my notes were flat,

but like an idiot, I wanted the gear,

and forgetting the camera, I was under his spell.

I imagine I can feel him giving my head a pat.

Reviews

[Tovli]

this is good--I need to add honorable mentions just for Fess products! oh! love the icon--i might just "steal" that! love Fess! awesome tribute!

[Salvatore Buttaci]

Fess would love this one!

[imawriter]

Ohhh Nooooo!! I'm giving myself away.. but I actually remember the King of the Wild Frontier! Admittedly, Star Trek, Twilight Zone and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea were more my favorites, but my parents watched Dan'el Boone and Davy Crockett.. so I did too. Thanks for this poem.. it brought back memories and really made me smile