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Brogue Poems - Poems about Brogue

Premium MemberMcDougal's Irish Accent

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McDugal, the Leprechaun is a gent
Mick's wife always says he was Heaven sent
He shows respect to women
In their praises he's swimmin'
They love hearin' his Irish brogue accent...
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Categories: brogue, humor, image,
Form: Limerick

STAMPEDE

...STAMPEDE

Beneath the moon’s pale, a requited glow,
A hyperbolic crowd begins to grow.
The sphere is aired with fear and haste,
A storm of bodies, my qualms displaced.

A million cry, a sudden...
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Categories: brogue, allusion, anxiety, bereavement, child
Form: Elegy



Premium Membersuspected he was a leprechaun

...Rascal the rapscallion was a slyboots rogue
he fancied himself a pixie, spoke Irish brogue
we suspected he was a leprechaun hiding gold
he lived in Skeezicks Forest, Celtic land of old...
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Categories: brogue, ireland,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMolly McBee

...molly mcbee had a brogue that was thick
her gravelly voice scared her neighbor Brick
when he saw her coming he ran away
she laughed at this, showing her sense of play

here she comes, cute Molly...
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Categories: brogue, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Ballad

Premium MemberMarry 'me Merry Barry,' Mary

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   ~ To be read with an Irish brogue ~

   Mary, please marry 'me merry Barry'
   'Me merry Berry,' Mary, please marry
     Don’t marry Matty
     Don’t marry Moti
   Marry 'me Barry,' ~ Be m...
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Categories: brogue, silly, wedding, word play,
Form: Limerick



Matthew O Harris Ease A FAKE Irishman

...Matthew O' Harris Ease A "FAKE" Irishman

Saint Patrick's Day, or
Feast of Saint Patrick
Lá Fhéile Pádraig
invoke even non Irish to proclaim
Éirinn go Brách
translated as "Ireland Forever."

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Categories: brogue, adventure, america, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBlarney Stone Collab-MORE ADDITIONS

...If anyone would like to have some community fun, 
please send me a limerick(s) in a comment or soup mail.  



The famous Blarney Stone, some can't resist
When in Ireland, it's on tourist's che...
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Categories: brogue, humor,
Form: Limerick

Anastasia

...Anastasia: a crazy name for an Irish woman,
but actually, quite common
in the long-buried book of Celtic Memories.

When she in a reverie came to me
- her 80 year old hair
flying on countless d...
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Categories: brogue, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Matthew O' Harris Ease a Fake Irishman

...Matthew O' Harris Ease A "FAKE" Irishman

Since adopting the guise
of Norwegian bachelor farmer,
I may as well fabricate genetic stock
lock, and barrel linkedin to Celtic legend.

Sentimentali...
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Categories: brogue, adventure, america, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme

Smith

...I am Irish,
I do not patter a brogue, not lilt, or prate the Celtic.
I’m annexed English, cockney, a dead queens piglish,
chameleon tongued.

Something took me, shook me like a spade
until an u...
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Categories: brogue, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Onerous Task Confronted Teachers and Parents

...Onerous task confronted teachers and parents

As prospective students
ably ready themselves to matriculate
and/or first set little feet 
inside halls of learning,
I rebroadcast a poem crafted
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Categories: brogue, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberShe Ignores the Town

...A snarly-mouthed, cross-eyed, pessimist with an attitude toward mean.
Ann Marie disregards opinions that are not her own.
The town has ignored her for so long, few people remember her name.
She sp...
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Categories: brogue, woman,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Thing About Flying

...The Thing About Flying
David J Walker

Everyone said it was 
Okay for you to fly

It was a good day
And what does dying 

mean anyway
if you can’t spread your wings

and try 
To reach fo...
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Categories: brogue, loss,
Form: Rhyme

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

...I keep a notebook on the nightstand,
pencil at hand – life-rafts for thoughts.
A flock of dream-crows take off all at once,
the clatter of their wings
a whole symphony played in just one moment.
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Categories: brogue, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLandsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 17

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Erlenkönig pulled the chair out beside Aisling's and sat on the side of the table.  A large, luxuriant and ornate chair headed the end of the table,
several places down from where he sat its ...
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Categories: brogue, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic

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