Best Wilkes Poems
Below are the all-time best Wilkes poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of wilkes poems written by PoetrySoup members
Caste a Spell
O foolish Amerikan klan,
who hath Klux bewitched thee with pale poof?
Kluless to the celestial truth,
Love immutable is infinity grand
Children of the Aryan band,
what doth the...
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Categories:
wilkes, allegory, hate, imagery, truth,
Form:
Couplet
A Black Man's PerspectiveLife in Africa was full; years in the bush, a treat.
Music made us happy; drums sounded for dancing feet.
A loving life with family always made...
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Categories:
wilkes, africa, america, black african
Form:
Rubaiyat
Lincoln LincolnLincoln, Lincoln
Lincoln, Lincoln he no stinkum
he was good man, yes siree.
He the one that set um free
makeum homes for you and me.
Him the one who...
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Categories:
wilkes, america, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
Proventoday it has been proven that our justice system does'nt represent justice. it just
fixes things the way they want things to be fixed. today...
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Categories:
wilkes, allegorytoday,
Form:
I do not know?
ShenanigansThere was an old lawyer named Ruth
Who didn't mind bending the truth.
No scoundrel too bad,
If money he had.
He'd have pled self defense for Wilkes Booth.
For...
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Categories:
wilkes, funny
Form:
Limerick
Useless UselessApril 14, 1865
A chilled southern wind
Lincoln's last hours
Our American Cousin...
John Wilkes Booth
born: May 10, 1838
Taurus the bull
claimed he had too great a soul
to die like...
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Categories:
wilkes, education, history,
Form:
Free verse
Shot ForsoothAlas, Abe Lincoln was fatally shot forsooth,
By that nefarious cad John Wilkes Booth!
Booth was shot by Sergeant Boston Corbett,
Sending him on his well-deserved eternal orbit!
Robert...
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Categories:
wilkes, history, humorous,
Form:
Clerihew
South Street Bridge MemoriesUse to work at Wilkes
walking across South Street Bridge
on my way to work...
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Categories:
wilkes, work,
Form:
Haiku
Oval Sanatorium
Nutty grandpa president
is talking crazy uncle Donald again
His little Chucky thumbs
is tapping epithet tweet nonsense
Batty grandpa’s been
grumpily sucking
on the hate hot sauce bottle
stashed...
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Categories:
wilkes, humor, parody, satire, word
Form:
Light Verse
Can a Historian Explain ThisLincoln elected to Congress in 1846
Kennedy elected to Congress in 1946
Lincoln elected President in 1860
Kennedy elected President in 1960
Lincoln's secretary named Kennedy
Kennedy's...
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Categories:
wilkes, history, mystery, political,
Form:
Free verse
Mississippi VoicesDark echoes of the past reverberate
In Mississippi voices filled with hate.
This morning nooses hanging from a tree
Remind us all of lynching history....
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Categories:
wilkes, america, black african american,
Form:
Quatrain
A Place of Today's PastThe silence of morn makes this place forlorn
in the fields, the hillsides, and trenches.
Over two hundred years since the bloodshed and fear,
yet you can hear...
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Categories:
wilkes, america, history, perspective, places,
Form:
Rhyme
Douse That Prophetic Fire By Nightfall, Sir, Or the Neighbours Will ComplainTo be. To feel.
To feel, to love,
To love. To rage,
To rage, to die
Like a good Romantic, or to sleep like this,
Ghosting about
Like a loose plastic...
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Categories:
wilkes, betrayal, society,
Form:
Free verse
The Annals of HistoryReview the annals of history
Murder upon murder you'll see
Start with Adam and Eve's son, Cain
Who murdered his brother Abel...
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Categories:
wilkes, history, murder, remember,
Form:
Couplet
Auroraso, another shooting in
the belly of the empire…
i wonder if Charlton Heston’s
withery old cock just
sprung to life?
i wonder if Ted Nugent &
Charlton Heston...
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Categories:
wilkes, life, culture, cancer,
Form:
Free verse