Best Mammy Poems
Below are the all-time best Mammy poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of mammy poems written by PoetrySoup members
Tom and Jerry Nursery RhymeHickory, dickory, dock.
Jerry the mouse ran up the clock
Tom smelled him from afar
Jumped up on top like a star.
Jerry as always was quite wise.
And with...
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Categories:
mammy, cat, nursery rhyme,
Form:
Rhyme
Another Cruel Link In Their Chain Another Cruel Link in their Chain
1. Beginnings
Her babe was her joy, such a beautiful boy,
and he suckled her breast till...
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Categories:
mammy, body, life, men,
Form:
Ballad
I Do Not Belong To YouI will not be your puppet in a minstrel show
Because I guarantee no Mammy, Jezebel, or Sambo lives here
You may try to control...
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Categories:
mammy, black african american, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Black-Eyed Peas For New Years MealBlack-Eyed Peas for New Year’s Meal
Black-Eyed Peas
Black-Eyed Peas
I’m going to freeze
If I don’t eat Black-eyed peas
On New Year’s Day
Black-Eyed Peas
Black-Eyed Peas
Gee Whiz please!
Gotta have those...
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Categories:
mammy, food, money, new year,
Form:
Rhyme
Get Happy 101I wish ta be happy happy
Not crappy crappy
It's becum easier since becumen a pappy
With a we baby on me lappy
Some tink me silly and...
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Categories:
mammy, funny love, , cute,
Form:
I do not know?
Oh DaddyOh my
You seem to be very quiet now
Funny you see
Was I you said to be quiet
Oh Daddy
Where is your smile?
Finally I can admire you
Lying there...
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Categories:
mammy, abuse, betrayal, child, crazy,
Form:
Free verse
Possum Branch RoadCedars whisker the ditch along Possum Branch Road. Such small little fellers, hardly worth calling a tree. Some say haints put a spell...
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Categories:
mammy, humorous,
Form:
Narrative
Don,T Call Him That!Did yer mammy ever say"dont call him or her, that?
whenever ye,v called someone, "dim!"or"a prat!?
Well i called my theiving brother a monkey!an got skelpt!
and told...
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Categories:
mammy, adventure
Form:
Limerick
The Widow's Mite ~ WestonWeston worked and worried
from sun up till sundown
for the freed-man knew the reason
that Pap had gone to town.
Pap had loved his family
but now that Ma...
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Categories:
mammy, adventure, black african american,
Form:
Free verse
Fated To Be With MeRena knew she was coming, long before I did.
She was pulling at my heart strings.
She was glinting in my eye.
She was whispering to me in...
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Categories:
mammy, birth, joy, mother daughter,
Form:
Rhyme
Govan Lass Written In Glesga SlangAm a lass fae Govan
There a wiz born n breid
When a wiz wee a wiz playing tig on the dykes
N a split ma poor wee...
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Categories:
mammy, adventure,
Form:
Verse
Pride of American Cousin-
The draper shop in Drumshanbo town was busy on the day
The girls were moving bales of cloth and packing shelves away
Are you allowed to dance...
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Categories:
mammy, mothermother, dance, home, dance,
Form:
Rhyme
Lantana
"Lantana"
Beans grown
in a belly
planted they bloom
through crimson
they arrive
trying to weed
the prickly parent purple
Lantana out
The future is
bright and shiny
just like a...
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Categories:
mammy, dark, imagery, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
Spud's New CarSpud's New Car, a tribute to my ever so lovely hamster Spud . . .
SPUD’S NEW CAR
My hammy has hit the wheel, but;...
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Categories:
mammy, adventure, car, christmas, funny,
Form:
Couplet
When I Was a WeanWhen i was a wean we got everything free.from first bras to high heel shoes. ma mammy
thought she had the cream of the crop,...
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Categories:
mammy, childhood, family, funnyclothes,
Form:
I do not know?