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Best Ymca Poems

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Premium Member Alms the Poor
Alms 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



Premium Member Summer of Crazy
I 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
Premium Member Watching All My Memories Disappear
Traveling 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
Premium Member Bedside Manners
Oh 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 Fortytwo
NINETEEN 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



Premium Member Basketball Creator James Naismith
Basketball 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?
Premium Member The Job - Part 1
The 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
Premium Member Ghost Hunter
I 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 Man
Alright 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 Bagel
By 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
Premium Member Gramps Is Not An Acronym
My 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 Thief
The 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

Book: Shattered Sighs