Best Ymca Poems
Below are the all-time best Ymca poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of ymca poems written by PoetrySoup members
Alms the PoorAlms For The Poor
~~~~~~ The Clever Beggar ~~~~~~
The not so old beggar stood
before me,with outstretched
arms and a sadden stare
He ask me for sixty-five...
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Categories:
ymca,
Form:
Ballad
Summer of CrazyI still have that letter somewhere.
You made me promise to not tell anyone you wrote it.
So I kept that promise,
I kept it for thirty years.
I’m...
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Categories:
ymca, adventure, break up, emotions,
Form:
Prose
Watching All My Memories DisappearTraveling through the Valley in my old car
Passing by the rubble that was Saint Ann's
Wondering what is happening to the valley
No more growth, I guess...
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Categories:
ymca, angst, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
Bedside MannersOh love of mine what can you do,
When day finds loved one soon to die,
Poor taste the joke, self-serving tears,
What gain is there when you...
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Categories:
ymca, death of a friend,
Form:
Rhyme
Nineteen FortytwoNINETEEN FORTY TWO
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
As a young man in Jersey I wanted to be a cop
One sunday morning that dream came to a stop
Our nation...
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Categories:
ymca, america, december, military, patriotic,
Form:
Rhyme
Basketball Creator James NaismithBasketball creator: James Naismith
Designed the game first used a round football
Late 1891 also used two peach crates
Teaching at the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts
Kansas...
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Categories:
ymca, america, appreciation, celebrity, engagement,
Form:
Clerihew
To All the Women : Whose Your Daddy?Why do you use sex as a control weapon?
You pretend to not know that we need it.
The monster must be alleviated, released.
We get sex...
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Categories:
ymca, lifecare, women, care, history,
Form:
I do not know?
The Job - Part 1The Job
I got a plane to catch in the morning. 8:15 AM out of Austin, destination Orange County, CA. Never cared much for...
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Categories:
ymca, death,
Form:
Narrative
Ghost HunterI don't see you.
I've been searching my whole life,
But still, I don't see you.
When I was a wee lad
I looked for you ...
My mother's smile,
My...
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Categories:
ymca, philosophy, religion, self,
Form:
Free verse
Big Bad Bart-Mountain ManAlright all you pigeon chests
Came the sound of thunder from the open door
As Big Bad Bart replaced the space
Giant mountain man of lore
Making his way...
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Categories:
ymca, funny, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
The Homeless Man-Old,Bench,Sleeping-It's minus thirty-five outside
that is with the wind chill,
there's an old man at the park
who is feeling rather ill.
He sits upon...
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Categories:
ymca, art,
Form:
Rhyme
A Hillbilly Eats His First BagelBy Elton Camp
Old Bubba had spent his life in the hills
Plain food and drink from whiskey stills
So to the big city he decided he’d go
For...
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Categories:
ymca, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Gramps Is Not An AcronymMy gramps was a long-staunch Baptist of the sort S.B.C.,
Until his local congregation got beholden to the R.N.C.
Gramps was a hoot – on...
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Categories:
ymca, character, grandfather, humor,
Form:
Couplet
The Antics of a Yoyo ThiefThe Antics Of A Yoyo Thief
Potential life of as juvenile delinquent
(ala bam mean future streetwise thug)
stopped dead in the tracks – manacles
the above two lines...
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Categories:
ymca, 5th grade, 6th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Wild Thang Monkey In Exile**********
You see
I am a monkey
Of distention, but
A monkey just the same
While hanging out
At the MONKEY YMCA
I am having profound thought's
...
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Categories:
ymca, allegory, animals, fantasy, friendship,
Form:
Personification