Best Hoople Poems
Jukebox
The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Bread
Billy Joel and The Grateful Dead
Suzi Quatro, Wham! Kate Bush
Elton John, Yes, Kiss and Rush
Aerosmith, The Brothers Four
Dolly Parton, Sandie Shaw
The Jackson Five and Bruce Springsteen
Elvis Presley, Slade and Queen
David Bowie, The Beach Boys, Sweet
Rose Royce, Madness and The Beat
Dusty...
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Categories:
hoople, appreciation, music,
Form:
List
Ten Days Till ChristmasTEN DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS
Ten days till Christmas
Ten days of worry hustle
What shall I get her?
She won’t help me out
Won’t even give me a clue
What’s a man to do?
She never complains
About my Christmas presents
No just this blank look
Makes me feel...
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Categories:
hoople, funnyme, old, me, old,
Form:
Haiku
ComicsCOMICS
Remember the comics?
Sunday morning
Paper at the door
After breakfast
Sprawled on the floor
Reading the comics
The characters
Both colorful and exciting
8 full pages
Variety inviting
Loving the comics
Hoople and Martha
Tracy and his Tess
Every Sunday
They’re in such a mess
Laughing at the comics
Mutt and Jeff
Mutt so tall
Jeff like Stan Laurel
Vacuous...
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Categories:
hoople, happiness
Form:
Light Verse
Starts with a title
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Born on this rock with a diaper and mittens,
hard to the touch but so soft in its feel
Crawling along like a dragon with kittens,
purring out fire, if that could be real
Laid in the sun under cloud cover sharing,
offering thoughts in a dark shade of gray
Promising...
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Categories:
hoople, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Matthew O Harris Ease A FAKE IrishmanMatthew O' Harris Ease A "FAKE" Irishman
Saint Patrick's Day, or
Feast of Saint Patrick
Lá Fhéile Pádraig
invoke even non Irish to proclaim
Éirinn go Brách
translated as "Ireland Forever."
Though semitic thru and thru
yours truly (me) dons guise of being Irish
trumpeting hoople linked with
the folklore and culture of Emerald Isle
juiced...
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Categories:
hoople, adventure, america, appreciation, beautiful,
Form:
Free verse