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Abner Poems - Poems about Abner

Premium Member Marriages These Days -- Tpi
...~ TPI ~ Abner got divorced before he married His new wife Mae found that kind of scary But she knelt at the altar Though her courage did falter "Bet 'my BIG man' is really a fa......

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Categories: abner, anxiety, divorce, husband, imagination,
Form: Limerick
Screw Etiquette
...Today is an American folk event Unraveled by traditions and etiquette Vixens ask men on a date Women hoping to find a mate Sadie Hawkins Day we celebrate......

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Categories: abner, crush, cute love, high
Form: ABC



Premium Member Tribute To Al Capp
...Dogpatch Daisy Mae Little Abner T. Cornpone USA Al Capp......

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Categories: abner, art,
Form: Cinqku
Premium Member Dog Patch Usa
...For forty-three years Lil Abner ignored the voluptuous Daisy Mae In Al Capp’s comic strip about the good folks of Dogpatch USA I remember as a child thinking all women should look like she. And wo......

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Categories: abner, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Something To Look Forward To, Part Vi
......Though in closing, it must be said they did not remain there for long. A damned Yankee wed to a Reb? The locals all declared it wrong. Like many others they went west, and made Colorado the......

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Categories: abner, courage, death, life, loss,
Form: Epic



Something To Look Forward To, Part Iv
......Emmet would converse with Sophie, pretend he was a normal man, while April and Abner slipped away… young infatuation was grand. And after their third time out there April and Abner were eng......

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Categories: abner, courage, death, life, loss,
Form: Epic
Something To Look Forward Too, Part Iii
...After moments she shook her head, then moved over to the brick hearth, a strew cooked over glowing coals, she threw more spuds in for her part. Then came over to the main room, and sat herself......

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Categories: abner, courage, death, life, loss,
Form: Epic
Something To Look Forward To, Part Ii
......Emmet just sat down on a bench, And gratefully took his boots off, Just stretched himself out there to rest, for the moment it was enough. The woman seemed confused by this, it was clear sh......

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Categories: abner, courage, death, life, loss,
Form: Epic
Something To Look Forward To, Part I
...His name was Emmet Patterson, and back in 1863, he led a cavalry unit patrolling deep in Tennessee. The state was firm in Union hands, Tte Civil War in its third year, but the threat of parti......

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Categories: abner, courage, death, life, loss,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Kickapoo Joy Juice
...Stuff we slurp up like there's no tomorrow Is called “Kickapoo Joy Juice” a name I borrowed From Al Capp's Li'l Abner A strip from another era For 43 years till Al Capp passed away to our......

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Categories: abner, silly,
Form: Limerick
Be Prepared
...Abner; So beautiful like a sitting doll How sweet your smile That can go thousand miles You are a joy that one can admire Don’t let that growing desire Flush like a dying lion Be that beaut......

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Categories: abner, birthday, boy, care, child,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Opening Day With a Little Delay
...Opening Day with a Little Delay Take me out to the ball game Of balls and strikes - bloopers and perfect games; Basket catches, ERA’S, country hardball; Foul balls, the pick off, intentiona......

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Categories: abner, baseball, celebration, sports,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Kickapoo Joy Juice
...That stuff we slurp up like there's no tomorrow Is called “Kickapoo Joy Juice” a name I borrowed From Al Capp's Li'l Abner A strip from another era For 43 years till Al Capp passed away t......

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Categories: abner, celebration,
Form: Limerick
The Devil Came To Aspen, Part Ii
......The devil didn’t hide, he strutted right out, a smile painted on his red face. “Why my dear sheriff, how in the world Did you ever find my new place?” Abner stared on, seething with hate. “......

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Categories: abner, adventure, courage, evil, faith,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
The Devil Came To Aspen, Part I
...In eighteen hundred ninety-three, back in those silver-mining days, a figure walked into Aspen town, and it was the devil they say, come looking for new souls to take. He didn’t look like you ......

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Categories: abner, adventure, courage, evil, faith,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

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