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Banjos Poems - Poems about Banjos

Premium Memberhillbilly hoe down

...hllbilly hoe down
hard piece of straw in each mouth
bibbed overall dance

banjos and fiddles
potluck of fancy desserts
arkansas ham hocks

hound dogs on the porch
homemade corn liquor from g...
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Categories: banjos, humor,
Form: Senryu

Republic of Molossia

...
Cornichons


The Cute Kind
Tasse and  Gobelet are lovers.
Two beautiful peacocks.
I made a wager on the horses
,but didn't wanna tell my friends.
The woman said. She would 
listen to Organ...
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Categories: banjos, culture, horse, music, sports,
Form: Ballade



Galore of buzzfeeding, needling and scamming female hustlers

...Galore of buzzfeeding, needling and scamming female hustlers...

with a scheming, loving, and enticing guise
alive and well seeking gullible guys
(once upon a time just like me),
who experiences...
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Categories: banjos, adventure, age, anger, anti
Form: Rhyme

America at a critical political crossroads

...America at a critical political crossroads...,

nevertheless hope springs eternal,
especially after listening
to Vice President Kamala Harris
and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz
speak at the The Li...
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Categories: banjos, abuse, america, angst, august,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOh Captcha Squares

...Oh captcha squares, oh captcha squares
What are these objects in your frames?
Oh captcha squares, oh captcha squares
Why must they gotta be the same?

    Cars and busses, traffic lights
    Bi...
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Categories: banjos, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberAppalachian Homecoming

...You were born here,
Blue Ridge foothills,
spirits of Cherokee in 
Appalachia's olden heart and veins.
Scots-Irish influence of beloved
bluegrass,
moonshine of the drinking kind.

Your parents...
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Categories: banjos, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Elegy

Inevitable Death Defines Life

...Inevitable death defines afterlife

I mull mortality 
thru lens crafted occipital orbs
regarding a better future
experience sing a space oddity – 
whar incessant yaks
exuding a big hurt
emana...
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Categories: banjos, absence, allah, angel, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Musical Pointer

...A musical pointer up in Grants Pass
just can’t get enough of bluegrass
To the banjos and strings
he prances and sings
but still misses the woodwinds and brass...
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Categories: banjos, humor,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberTapora

...Like Hannibal we crossed the pass and crossed 
   the Alps (okay, the Brynderwyn Hills) 
and a bridge too far on north-west passage.
   From out of the Valley of Mizpah 
to the fires of perdi...
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Categories: banjos, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHe's One-Year Old

...A boy with a toy, a girl with a curl
  each more precious than a necklace of pearls
Birthday boy's face all covered with cake
  blew out the candle, then took a break

Mommy is hopping from kitc...
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Categories: banjos, birthday, boy, celebration, girl,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOf Its Own Volition

...Bluegrass banjos
fueling the vision

Death
is hard to take
sometimes

but it’s not
like we 
ever had
a choice in the matter

It happens
of its own volition...
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Categories: banjos, death,
Form: Free verse

Doorbells Twinkle In the Door Less

...A banjo is playing in the bodega.
A door proclaims its ding and dong
voltaic birds bounce to its tintinnabulum,
flickers of auricular featherings
wipe shelves of a million years of dust.
The ban...
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Categories: banjos, poetry,
Form: Free verse

In the Land of Old Pajamas

...When a ladder leaps like a lady bug
and the patterns turn away
Where the coffee needs an electric plug
now on any given day
Will the sun outlast it’s father
as the field comes round the bend
Ti...
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Categories: banjos, fun,
Form: Rhyme

The Mouse In the Sydney Opera House Nursery Rhyme

...In the Opera house
Is a tiny little mouse,
Everybody knows
Of the tiny little mouse,
The tiny little mouse in the
Opera house!

He watches all the shows
Sings all highs and lows,
Everybody k...
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Categories: banjos, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme

Choice Is Sweet

...Since 5 or 6
not picked up twix
A Wagon wheel
All round appeal 
Only club for me is LFC
My name isn't kit
I don't own a kat
Blue is not bad so 
Wrap a ribbon around that
Not the star at the ...
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Categories: banjos, candy, chocolate, fun,
Form: Rhyme

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