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Best Dodger Poems

Below are the all-time best Dodger poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of dodger poems written by PoetrySoup members

Rodger Dodger

There once was a man named Rodger
Who became an expert tax dodger
He had boxes of papers
Documenting his capers
And kept them till he was a codger...

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Categories: dodger, tribute,
Form: Limerick

Rain Dance Dreamer

I’m just another rain dance dreamer
                   ...

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Categories: dodger, dream, perspective, rain, self,
Form: Rhyme

Rabbit Dna


Hare trigger instincts
always served Roger well
He had an oh, no-no lettuce nose — 
a hyper-keen sense   when to leave
Roger was rabbit good
at knowing...

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Categories: dodger, parents, parody, truth, wisdom,
Form: Ode

Shiver Me Timbers

SHIVER ME TIMBERS!

Once a cut-throat and cannon ball dodger
Now a one legged salty old codger
But when ship enters docks he
Will look up an old doxy
And...

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Categories: dodger, humor,
Form: Limerick

A Bawdier Charles Dickens

Yesterday I swear I saw Charles Dickens
His quaint style today would take a lickin' --
   So he's changed up the Dodger
  ...

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Categories: dodger, books, character, humor, identity,
Form: Limerick

Bad Grammar

Grammar

When it comes to grammar
I always break the rules
I am from the old school
I never adhere to the “do and don’t
 I am a devious...

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Categories: dodger, people, me, me,
Form: Narrative

Cockney Geezer

I was born within the sound of Bow bells in the east end of London, this makes me a true cockney, I own a cock...

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Categories: dodger, england, humor, identity, london,
Form: Narrative

Agony Aunt

Dear depressed girlfriend 
Thank you for your note 
He's obviously the boyfriend of the year
So he's going to get my vote . 

Your boyfriend is...

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Categories: dodger, funny,
Form: Verse

True Blue Pledge

True Blue Pledge 

I pledge allegiance to the boyz in blue 
During the highs n lows 
I promise to always cheer for you
You win some...

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Categories: dodger, baseball, dedication, devotion, fun,
Form: I do not know?

The Fox

Curious creature
Insidious in nature
An artful dodger...

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Categories: dodger, animals, nature, on writing
Form: Haiku

The Vietnam War

I finished high school four months prior to my 18th birthday. By this time, my country was heavily engaged in the Vietnam war.  I...

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Categories: dodger, america, loss, memorial day,
Form: Narrative

Hot Southern Nights-F

During the time before television came to our home,                ...

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Categories: dodger, america, baseball, father, games,
Form: Prose Poetry

Chasing Ghosts In Cars

“Chasing Ghosts in Cars” 

Like automata
we walk inside 
winding up the stairs

it’s all mechanical
the romance 
programmed

by steep degrees 
in the 
well-routined

we can walk 
through walls
anywhere

to...

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Categories: dodger, muse,
Form: Free verse

Bad Habbit

Pinioned to   my   world of ambivalence.
I cry,
I   sob,
It will   not let go.
In me it rises like the...

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Categories: dodger, depression, world, heart, pain,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Chaucer Translation: Rejection

Rejection
a roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Your beauty from your heart has so erased
Pity, that it's useless to complain;
For Pride now holds...

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Categories: dodger, beauty, french, heart, innocence,
Form: Roundel