Best Boyer Poems
No Bigger Than a Baritone Horn - Part I
...Round about nineteen 1971-2, yours truly bid adieu
to Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
(situated at crossroads – then beau
colic rural routes of Evansburg Road and Ridge Pike), where nary ......
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Categories:
boyer, growing up, hilarious, life,
Form:
Free verse
Sayonara Mother Thirteen Years Ago Back In Time Tear Drop Uno
...the bittersweet silent story of my life age
fifty and nine automatically rebroadcast
in indelible (yet never washed out) beige
indistinguishably linkedin, when counting
the last three......
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Categories:
boyer, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form:
Metrical Tale
Total Time I Spent In Dental Chair Post Adolescence To Present Age First Appointment
...so much precious existence
found me rooted with mouth ajar
as sigh asper the dentin-cementum
so mud dear reader (with dem perfect
enameled pearly whites), aye har bar
envy for those with a ......
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Categories:
boyer, body, depression, feelings, grief,
Form:
Imagism
Long In the Tooth Male Doth Recount Reflect Reimagine
...Long in the tooth male doth recount, reflect, reimagine...
his woebegone damn dental daze today May 5th, 2021
No particular rhyme nor reason
garden variety indentured flunky (me)
revisits his ......
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Categories:
boyer, 2nd grade, absence, age,
Form:
Rhyme
Goodbye Garner
...He starred in 'Move Over Darling', 'Grand Prix' and other flicks.
He was James Garner and sadly, he died at the age of eighty-six.
He starred as Wyatt Earp in 'Hour Of The Gun'.
Six years later he......
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Categories:
boyer, death, dedication, farewell, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
Son Say Goodnight To Grandpa
...“Son”...”say goodnight to grandpa”
Spurred by mother dearest
as well as other politesse
drummed into her second born
fobbing blandishments as incentive
tumbled off fingers of prodigal son
tr......
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Categories:
boyer, 12th grade, 3rd grade,
Form:
Rhyme
No Bigger Than a Baritone Horn - Part 1 and a Half
...Upon entering Methacton Junior High School as rookie Warrior,
(the sturm un drang sports team mascot)
no doubt this goy he brew
a facade sans being wimpy kid, bookish nerd, and puny dork
......
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Categories:
boyer, endurance, health, identity, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Reading Out Loud
...Reading Out Loud...
Plus applying index finger as pointer guide
(take that Missus Wells),
who best not take objection, hence let snide
blackboard barbed comment dultifully slide
chalked up and......
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Categories:
boyer, 12th grade, 3rd grade,
Form:
Free verse
Inferiority Complex As a Kid, Adolescent and Emerging Adult
...Inferiority complex as a kid, adolescent and emerging adult
Yours truly (an amazingly,
gracefully, and markedly modest
passively aging baby boomer -
formerly introverted long haired
pencil nec......
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Categories:
boyer, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Prognosticating Present Plight
...Prognosticating Present Plight...
Perhaps Preset During In Utero Protean Stage?
Reviewing, sans my life
and arduous hard time
lock, stock, and barrel on regular basis,
and of late composing
t......
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Categories:
boyer, 7th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form:
Bio
The Peterson Directed Handwriting System
...The Peterson Directed Handwriting System...
Tis beyond the depth and scope
of this electronic post,
and author, what triggers deliverance
housing bounty full memory absorbance,
yet no matter h......
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Categories:
boyer, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gag
...at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
As a Halloween costume,
one year during early grade school,
my father got the brilliant idea
for his sole son to be dressed
with one of a kind getup.......
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Categories:
boyer, 5th grade, adventure, autumn,
Form:
Free verse
Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gag
...Chief garbage taster as fifth grade Halloween gag
at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
interestingly enough landed me a grubhub grab bag.
I rooted thru poetry anthology of mine,
and came acro......
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Categories:
boyer, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Irrelevant Boyhood Arcane Flotsam and Jetsam
...Irrelevant boyhood arcane flotsam and jetsam...
Impossible mission to jettison
nonetheless laughter iz best medicine
more enjoyable with vignette aye fabricate
(think swifty taylor harried styl......
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Categories:
boyer, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse
While Rummaging Thru Papers To Shred
...While rummaging thru papers to shred...
Earlier this November fourth
two thousand and nineteen
your truly long in the tooth
(er...in dentured) wordsmith
rifled thru miscellaneous papers to sh......
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Categories:
boyer, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse