Dern Poems - Poems about Dern

I like predictable TV shows

...I like predictable tv shows
Colombo always followed the perpetrator
In Death in Paradise the inspectors solve every case
Someone on the stand confesses in every Perry Mason episode
Harvey Korman ...

Forthright Plight

...I stare into the abyss
Drenched in darkness 
Such astute draconianic situation 

How deep it is
For pareidolia as coping mechanism
A mirk gorge

Painfully intoxicating 
I like to dern in the...

Noodlin'

...With the hot summer sun beating down,
leaving blisters on our necks and back.
Walking through those swift murky currents,
just you‘n me, and a gunny sack.

Dipping our heads below the surface,
...

Hillbilly Redneck Sonnet

...This redneck is fixin' to go dancin'
You reckon we get gussied up and go?
I'll be a high flutin' and a prancin'
Is the honky-tonk puttin' on a show?

Shall I wear my fanciest clod hoppers?
Shal...

Come Dance

...Come Dance


"Come dance with me", she said and smiled
And he fell off his chair.
He blushed and rose and all the while
He couldn't help but stare.

Prettiest thing he'd ever saw
Was askin' ...

Actually It's the Truth

...It sucks sometime not having people on the same wave length as you
Page as you
Daze craze captivating sensitity too
It really does when it seems it's only you
Who knew
The time would come and st...

Just Because

...Just because there was a limited access to truth
Does not mean there was an interruption declaring my love for you
I have had all the opportunity in the world to express myself
Self just got in th...

Secrete In Me I Cant Hide

...Cnt think ov anythng other than u
cnt stop smiln whn yo name z talkd ov
uve managed to get thru me ,all wories turnd of
u hve cleand dat melancholy on ma mind
mde m show u, parts i hide e most
a...

Mary, Mary

...Mary, Mary

Mary, Mary, where yall be
Behind the shed I see
Sitting on a bucket
Two shakes and blow
Snakes eyes rolls

Mary, Mary, where yall  be
Gosh darn, dang it
Wrestling with Billy
ov...

Asking Alice

...Alice had many friends, seems quite a few others 
have fallen down the rabbit's hole.
Janet appears often at the foot of the mushroom arguing with the Caterpillar.
Rubbing her legs tired from dream r...

Yippee-I-O-Ki-Ay

...Ben raised up a dern disappointment, Daddy, well, he wanted a boy.
Wasn’t nothing under the bleeding red sun Ma could do but keep on a tryin’
Ya’siree, she was one branded filly and dern iffin that f...

Falling Asleep On the T

...Ya know whuuut?
E’en when Iiiii’m dawunk
I aam steel a gud po’et,
An if this dern puter 
keybroad wud stop
mov’n in curcles, 
I cud e’en show it.

In…in…intoxication
dun mmm’pair me none;
I...

Step Away From the Page!

...“I’m gonna get a beebee gun ya dern critters and shoot yer I’s out.”
“That’s right purty ladies grip yer hips, shut yer lips and leave the page.”
“I seen them I’s. All those ego tis tical bloody I’...

The Teach's From Brookl'N / Dedicated Ta Sweetheart

...T hey’d aughta not called nookie
H eaven’s blessed cookie...
E ither burd or bee, cause neither's a lookie! 

B urds well der feathered, not like me?
I n da interest of clarity, I’m certainly NO...

The Used-To-Be Cowboy

...I’m just a used-to-be cowboy
With one boot in the ol’ cow pie—
I used to be quite the young gent;
Now I just wait around to die.

Oh, you know you’re getting’ dern old
When your knees creak lik...

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