Best Hattie Poems

HURRICANE HATTIE                       ...

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Hattie L. Rogers

1844 – 1917


The playing cards of life are a stacked deck.
As soon as you begin to breathe
You begin to die and disintegrate.
All of...

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Hattie gladly had a fatty patty.
If a bad fatty patty had Hattie,
That fatty patty would’ve made Hattie batty;
But, Hattie had a rad fatty patty!
The fad-clad...

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Being an early African American actress, included moments of outcries & burst
That ended with pride & joy, on being so many of our first

Like the...

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She’ll always be our family’s valedictorian of sight…
For
 She was the no nonsense type of woman who gave all of her love and insight to...

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One dark evening, Hat-less Hattie,
Took a walk with her cattie.
She didn’t see the thing fly down;
Bat attached itself to her crown; 
Hat-less Hattie’s locks are...

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life itself is an ocean

full of whales and sharks

sometimes swimming, sometimes sailing

sometimes surviving in an ark

don't be scared John Henry

just avoid the guns and knives

stay...

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Thank You!...

It's Black history month, so we come to celebrate, 
all the hues of brown that made our nation great! 

From Fredrick and Harriet to...

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James McKee Rogers

1836 – 1900


I offer up this epitaph as an ode instead,
An ode of love, affection and gratitude
To Whittier, my true home away from...

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There was an old woman called Hattie
whose hubby's name for her was fattie.
So she cooked his goose
hung him from a noose
then buried him in a...

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Small  furry, stripy, cuddly puss makes
Lots of noise as the early dawn breaks
And so the reluctant household wakes.
“Get out of bed now,
Come down and...

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Sammy Squirrel is having a party
And inviting all of his friends.
Robert Raccoon and Peter Possum
Have their names marked off as he sends.

Charles Coyote and Will...

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Alpha Ursa Major, Alert (Ali),
Bardonino (Bart), Barbera,
Cory, Cody, Cowboy
Deschka, Dodger, Drummer Boy,
Eroica, Elektra,
Firebird (Sandy’s daughter), Firecracker, 
Gangster, Gandy Dancer, Gimmick,
Happy Feet, Hellsapoppin, Hurricane Hattie,
Image, Iesha,
Just...

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Miss Jill may find a way.

As I thought about your kindness
And the kids you teach at school.
I pondered how any help can come
From the ink...

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We all think that when we were young 
The sun shone for 23 hours a day
Not altogether true
But it seems that way in hindsight
But things...

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