Best Mckay Poems
Below are the all-time best Mckay poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of mckay poems written by PoetrySoup members
To Miss MckayThe day was glorious, sun splitting the sky,
Sat down in utter bewilderment I asked myself why,
It started round with one miss Mckay around 5...
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Categories:
mckay, angst, lost love, lovelove,
Form:
Verse
For Claude MckayLetter me with lines that I may distil
The sovereign sweetness of your flaming will
Teach me to sing of dusty flowers pure
And maiden's savaged innocence no...
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Categories:
mckay, dedication, on writing and
Form:
Sonnet
Skating In the CloudsSkating in the Clouds
She ice skates, now in the clouds.
Her figure eights wow, all the heavenly crowds.
She is amazed as the crowd continues to grow.
New,...
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Categories:
mckay, cousin, dedication, fantasy, imagery,
Form:
Rhyme
My First KissHe held my hand all the way home that night.
Crossing through the graveyard gave me a fright.
That was where he first kissed me,
In the graveyard,...
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Categories:
mckay, nostalgia, romanceme, home, home,
Form:
Limerick
To Gregory Pardlo, Pulitzer Prize WinnerAs soon as I heard
You were the First African American Male
To win the Pulitzer prize for Poetry
I wanted to run out and celebrate
I wanted...
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Categories:
mckay, assonance, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
Fire Ant Mind ControlEveryone says the government will be the first to develop mind control, (or that they already have) but it seems as if a species of...
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Categories:
mckay, fantasy,
Form:
Prose
If We Must DieIf We Must Die: (Dedicated to the Memory of Claude McKay, Harlem Renaissance Poet and Jamaican Born)
If we must die:
Let it not result from,...
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Categories:
mckay, courage, devotion, faith, god,
Form:
Pastoral
You Shall Not Return(Answer to Claude McKay I shall return)
YOU shall not come again
You won’t come back
You shall not turn up, you shan’t
To chuckle and care for the...
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Categories:
mckay, losslife,
Form:
Free verse
InterruptionDeath has come
Falling softly like snowflakes
On flowerbeds
The winds blows the dead sheet of leaves
Every time I see greatness rising from the earth
Like a new pea...
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Categories:
mckay, on writing and words
Form:
Free verse
Ancient Art of Almond MilkingDear friend,
I am trying to master the ancient art of Almond Milking. It's quite difficult and my sweetie hasn't had a drink of almond...
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Categories:
mckay, adventure,
Form:
Prose
Dirranbandi PlonkingDirranbandi plonking
27Australians and a shearer came to bash Bronco Don in 1945
He was just back from Kokoda killing Japs to stay alive
Some carried beer...
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Categories:
mckay, adventureold, old,
Form:
Rhyme
Sovereign of the SeasShe launched into sea in 1852,
And was build by Donald McKay.
She sailed from Honolulu, Hawaii
To New York in a whopping 82 days.
She set the fastest...
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Categories:
mckay, history, sea
Form:
Quatrain
Bum Named William PrologueI met a bum named William. I sit with him today. We're on the corner of Quincy and a street called McKay. He'd been there...
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Categories:
mckay, america, culture, depression, giving,
Form:
Blank verse
The Damned Girl, Part IIn Skagway town, eighteen ninety-eight
Lived a young man, Elliot McKay.
He worked with his father selling dry goods,
To the miners heading Klondike-way,
They made some good coin...
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Categories:
mckay, adventure, anger, betrayal, dark,
Form:
Narrative
Caribbean Pundit: Thankful TributePan: Betel. Or quintessentially creole, made anew, pan-American music
Aloo: also Native American, the staff of life, versatile with curry
Naan: often translated roti, chapati, dhaalpuri, but...
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Categories:
mckay, 12th grade, allegory, america,
Form:
Acrostic