Lucille Ball

August 6th – Lucille Ball’s birthday.  In 2013 there is 102 years since she was born.


Lucille Ball started with modeling, singing, transitioned to acting.
Her rapid rise on television no one was anticipating or expecting.
Lucille manifested ambition, talent in comedy, discipline, iron will.
Her ultimate reward – audience’s admiration, appreciation, thrill.

Ball was courageous, sharp, determined, enthusiastic, optimistic.
In each opportunity she’d taken, she had conveyed self as artistic.
Lucille was funny, witty, charming, vibrant, driven and persistent.
To giving up and failures she was opposed, against it or resistant.

Lucille had clearly understood the television’s world of possibility.
She had succeeded fulfilling own dreams and utilizing versatility.
Ball dared to integrate the elements of film, radio and vaudeville.
Everyone in the country’s able to recognize an icon named Lucille.

Loving herself and others, conveying it with open mind and heart,
Lucille expressed effort as human being on screen, doing her part.
She entered every home, relating to challenges, struggles of a day,
Reflecting family, social matters, daring to voice it, out loudly say.

Ball’s genius, star, beauty had shined on Broadway and television.
Her passion, gift for slapstick - a dream come true type of a vision.
Polishing skills, accumulating experience helped her to grow, evolve.
Lucille earned and deserved a worldwide acclaim, audience’s love.

August 6th – birthday of Lucille Ball, fine entertainer, inventive spirit,
Who made a contribution to television by transformation or pivot.
A legendary TV portrayer of simple and complicated life on screen
Entitled Lucille Ball to have been called America’s comedy queen. 


Copyright©2013 Mila Alper


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