Best Yoko Poems
Looney Tune...Max is mad at Molly
Samantha’s sore at Seth
Freida’s freaking out at Frodo
While Hobbits hold their breath
Jack jokes about poor Jill
She hits him with her pail
Humpty cracks open Dumpty
F......
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Categories:
yoko, angst, conflict,
Form:
Quatrain
Life is a Song...
*Written using 25 Beatles hit song titles. Revised a bit for 2024
It's been a hard day's night, my love. Tonight, I want to hold your hand and keep you close. Beloved one please, <......
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Categories:
yoko, appreciation, music, romantic love,
Form:
Narrative
Beatle Mania...Beatlemania (The Fab Four As Lovers)
Once a choir boy, John turned to romance,
Fell for Yoko almost at first glance.
In full public view
In bed with her too -
Showed the world how to “give ......
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Categories:
yoko, celebrity, funny,
Form:
Limerick
Number 9..."You say you want a revolution" screamed the four,
John, Paul, George and Ringo beat down the door.
Melody and harmony and Brit sex appeal gone anti-war
Nine times round the turn table with Yoko, ......
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Categories:
yoko, dream, history,
Form:
Rhyme
An Alphabet of Talent...Fred Astaire was king of tap
Biggie Smalls was huge in rap
Carson (Johnny)ruled TV
Dylan’s songs are poetry
Elvis made the girls all swoon
Frank Sinatra loved to croon
Greta Garbo hid from sight
Hitc......
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Categories:
yoko, art, people,
Form:
Couplet
When I Was Young 1970s...I saw one journey end and another begin
I saw my world changed and in a spin
I saw another end - the end of the band
I saw John and Yoko hand in hand
I saw commandos in the air armed and......
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Categories:
yoko, childhood, history, world,
Form:
Couplet
All the Things You Are...You are the hummer beside me at Carmen
The source of BO on the airplane
A loudmouth divulging the plot at a movie
And the noisy drunk at the concert I saved for all year
You are the G......
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Categories:
yoko, analogy, funny, humor, metaphor,
Form:
Light Verse
Ny Ny -- the Road In the Fork...New York, New York, the road in the fork
of the events, the places and folks who've buttered the pork
Like Rockefeller, Moynihan and Andrew Cuomo
Frank Sinatra, Louie Armstrong, John Len......
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Categories:
yoko, film, music, new york,
Form:
Rhyme
The Love and Lost Quartet - Part Three - Over the Years...hey danny, do you remember...
...dueling 'blind melon' acoustics
on your living room floor?
...falling asleep all afternoon
on the hammock, couch or floor?
...hanging out with yoko ono
at the lenno......
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Categories:
yoko, break up, first love,
Form:
Rhyme
Boungiorno...hello! hey! boungiorno! what is the date?/
this world of dimensions created duality/
no letters/ no words/ are enough to express/
someone like you/ in reality/
i filled all your emptines/ MY still q......
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Categories:
yoko, adventure, april, autumn, baby,
Form:
Nightime Revelations...After a day of mixed hopes and disappointments
I lay down upon my old mattress
and watch
the television station where thy play new age music
and offer poignant quotes
sometimes ......
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Categories:
yoko, introspection, peace,
Form:
Concrete
Freshwater Mermaids...Fresh water mermaids
Under a big crowned tree near the lake three land mermaids
sat knitting swimsuits, the saw me and sat still as rabbits, I pretended
not to see them but did use the corner of ......
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Categories:
yoko, angst, assonance, books,
Form:
Sonnet
Classic Rock...Classic rock
Played so softly
Zooming
Grooving
Got it playing
So quietly
Though it’s kind
Of metal
Rocking
But It brings back
Cool memories
And I love
My music
But all those co......
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Categories:
yoko, business,
Form:
Free verse
Imagine By John For Yoko...In the annuls of time
A song was written
By John Lennon
In love and smitten
His Japanese girl
Had caught his eye
Was it
The Beatles demise
The songs he wrote
Since the Beatles departed......
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Categories:
yoko, inspirational, music, on writing
Form:
Rhyme
A Few Items At My Garage Sale...
This little wristwatch is worth a look see.
On the face is a picture of Hopalong Cassidy.
Here is a Topps rookie card of Mike Schmidt.
Over five hundred home runs he hit.
This is John and ......
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Categories:
yoko, business, world war ii,
Form:
Couplet