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Best Tankards Poems

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The Mysterious Tankards of Dunkirk Hill
For Didds

Four tankards found at the foot of the hill
Bet someone got w*nkered, and now they feel ill
Bet it went down so easy that no...

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Categories: tankards, drink, england, humor, lost,
Form: Rhyme



A Ghostly Tear
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O’ crooked branch and magpie’s claw,
yon rusted chains a’ sway this night
Clutch tight a sign “The Seagull's Squall”
of splintered wood and storm clouds fight
Old tavern...

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Categories: tankards, dark, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Ruin
It stood on the top of the hill
dominating all of its surrounds.
Its drawbridge these days lay open
spanning with ease the now dry moat.
Like a fairy...

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Categories: tankards, fantasy, grandson, imagery,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Sea Shanty
The sea gathered her voice
on the crest of the waves
as dark clouds were herded
by the wind as he raved
in a symphony orchestrated
through elements of sound
composed...

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Categories: tankards, dedication, faith, imagination, sea,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Ye Olde Hogs Head
Welcome to the Hogs head
The local ye olde pub
The ale tastes like urine
And there's maggots 
In the grub.

There's straw on the floor
A pee bucket by...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tankards, baptism, drink, giggle, hilarious,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Lost Love Deliria - Part 1
AWAKENING

Sleep and slumber, dreams of wonder... weaving,
morning’s vacuum broke the spell
Pitted pillow, note of parting... leaving,
“from your friend, a fond farewell”
Sunrise throbbing, twilight aching... grieving,
daydreams,...

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Categories: tankards, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Sea Wolves
Searchin' the waves for sight of a sail. 
Throwin' back hearty tankards of ale. 
" Sails to port, " the lookout did call. 
So excited...

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Categories: tankards, adventure, boat, death, murder,
Form: Couplet
A Mermaid Tale
There once was a mermaid named Lea
Claimed delusional sailors at sea
So a captain set sail
Hopeful the tale to dispel
But returned with kelp on his knee

Once...

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Categories: tankards, fantasy, funny, imagination, sea
Form: Limerick
Premium Member For Old Star-Gazer Master Khayyam - a Name Like Shakespeare's For Some Other Giants - Part Two
For Old Star-Gazer Master Khayyam – a name like Shakespeare’s for “some” other giants – Part Two


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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tankards, confidence, dedication, devotion, humanity,
Form: Quatrain
Three Witches, a Love Story
THREE WITCHES A LOVE SONNET


Three ancient, rotten, horrid, witches 
just awoke from their daytime snore,
These evil, reeking, damaged, sisters,
Cursed the land for thirty-five score.

As they...

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Categories: tankards, beauty, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Holy Hunger
(A Salute to Emily Dickinson)

I taste a liquor never brewed
In structured vats of men
Not all the tankards ever filled
Could reign this nectar in

Inebriate of Christ...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tankards, metaphor,
Form: Quatrain
A Pub of the Locals
Once more we have a blazoned trail to muse                ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tankards, allegory, america, community, corruption,
Form: Quatrain
Hilda's Family Reunion
Paddy didn't want to go to his wife's family reunion. He told her that in the same nice way he had told her in years...

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Categories: tankards, family, marriage,
Form: Prose
Peers
Peers
Eye remember the last time eye respected and emulated mye peers they peered all over 
mee. While eye jumped from piers with pears and pares...

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Categories: tankards, on work and working,
Form: Prose Poetry
Blunt Knife
driven by a painful stain i say yes to 
1/2 empty Bukowski tankards 
full of dusty nothings meanwhile sitting 
in shallow quicksand @ 96 sweaty...

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Categories: tankards, anger, break up, courage,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs