Best Hookey Poems

I'm sick,
I'm coughing,
I'm sneezing,
My back is aching,
And I'm playing hookey....

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HOOKEY DAY

So you went off to school son and what did you learn?
will it make the world better the next time it turns?
No I didn’t...

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Ever pretend you were not feeling well
Just to take a day off from school?
You say your tummy has very bad pains
You think you have everyone...

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It is a small investment; this property out in the scrub.
A building that is shabby in it’s ‘hey day’ was a pub.
Blackberries scramble over it,...

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Five rings for fifty-one again and once more winning brings,
another pot of loser’s beer for throwing rubber rings.
That’s twenty-seven ‘freebies’ in a row, so by...

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I wish I had headlice, so I'd get out of work for a day.
I wish I had headlice, to play hookey, I say
I wish I...

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When I was single and living alone
Cereal curbed my tummy’s moans
Eating Cap'n Crunch
Breakfast, dinner, and lunch
Was a cooking hookey I honed!


10/4/11
Received 2nd place in "Cereal...

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Mama's work last all day.
Never appreciated or any pay.
Mama's jobs complies of this-n-that.
While Daddy sits on his a** getting fat.
Mama takes the time to make...

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When your stumped 
really really lost
imagine your dreams
taking off! Play hookey!
even a small break
really is all it takes
sends your mind soaring
back to a different place
let...

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At ten o’clock each morning, the Barley Tavern opens up its door,
and every now and then I saunter down, just making sure,
that Ken the barman...

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