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Best Ichabod Poems

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Premium Member Wynken, Blynken, and Ichabod
Dad, Wynken, Blynken, and Nod's not right;
    Seems to me they’ve not a clue.
For starters, they tried to sail at night,
 ...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ichabod, child, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme



Ichabod the Glory Has Departed
“The Glory Has Departed...” 


Before the next church service 
you attend gets started... 
Perhaps on the door should read; 
“God's glory has departed.” 

Many come...

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Categories: ichabod, brother, confusion, dedication, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Halloween's Headless Horseman
One Halloween night when I was five
Rain pelted city streets, we stayed inside

Dad lit the Jack-o-lantern candle
Told us the tale of a famous vandal

One “Headless...

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Categories: ichabod, childhood, children, dad, halloween,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Hollow
The October night was dark and cold,
As the autumn sun was going down,
When I recalled the legends I had been told,
About this sleepy, little town.

There...

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Categories: ichabod, halloween, horror, tribute, perspective,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Just a Few Clerihews
Warning, if you are under 60 you may not "get" some of these.

Mohammad Ali
taunting with poetry,
his opponents he'd zing
as he danced 'bout the ring.

Graham Kerr...

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Categories: ichabod, fun,
Form: Clerihew



The Bible
God,s written word the bible
The Christian once believed
But today as I look at the modern church
I see it is deceived.

Many churches today have left the...

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Categories: ichabod, bible, faith, god, lost
Form: Rhyme
Season Splice
Skeletal garden stalks rattle, shivering,
long leaved arms rustle in the wind,
bony fingers snap in rhythm 
to October’s haunting song;
they gather as shadowy hillside wraiths,
spectral companions...

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Categories: ichabod, autumn, change, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Church Isn'T the Answer Jesus Is
“Church” Isn’t the Answer!  JESUS IS!

Many in church don’t know the sad shape we’re in!
There’s so many who are filled with a lot of...

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Categories: ichabod, confusion, god, hope, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Night of the Headless Horseman
One Halloween night when I was five,
rain pelted city streets, we stayed inside.

Dad lit the Jack-o-lantern candle,
told us the tale of a famous vandal.

One “Headless...

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Categories: ichabod, dad, halloween, holiday,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Visiting Sunnyside
Ichabod Crane sprang from the brain
Of someone most deserving
Of Sunnyside, his proud domain.
His name? Washington Irving.

He also wrote a tale of note
About one Rip Van...

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Categories: ichabod, history, writing,
Form: Rhyme
The Haunted House
The Haunted House

We all think that old houses are haunted with spooky ghosts
That will jump out and scare us, but are there really ghosts
Or just...

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Categories: ichabod, horror,
Form: Narrative
Many Churches Have Compromised the Gospel of Jesus
Many Churches Have Compromised The Gospel Of Jesus Christ!

There’s many churches all across this nation.
That have “dug in” to a compromising situation.

Prayer time is often...

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Categories: ichabod, christian, confusion, culture, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Alone Upon This Halloween Scene(A Fictional Tale)
Stepping out into the Autumn night of Halloween
It is the Witches and the Warlocks turn to dance
Their air of mystery and mystic is all around
The...

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Categories: ichabod, adventure, science fiction, me,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Message From Milpitas, Ca
Teachers can't afford to live there
    So parents of student are offering space
  We've seen this scenario before
   ...

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Categories: ichabod, history, money, parents, teacher,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Our Dead Church
Our attendance is a mere formality, a routine unconnected to the hearts 
We sing, but not to the True God,
We pray with wondering Hearts 
Even...

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Categories: ichabod, analogy, anxiety, death, devotion,
Form: Ballade

Book: Reflection on the Important Things