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Derry Poems - Poems about Derry

Premium Member Wishing Well
...Stella Williams was eight years old, living with her widowed mother- Happily, though a bit lonely, like powder blue skies, sans sunset color. The Williams lived in a rural area, with no c......

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Categories: derry, family, fantasy, friend, love,
Form: Couplet
Upon a dark and stormy night
...Upon a dark and stormy night... as jagged bolts of lightning tore thru the the midnight clear and figuratively ripped the sky to shreds (analogous to jumping Jack flash), and ear splitting thu......

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Categories: derry, absence, america, animal, character,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Refurbished Nursery Rhymes: Hi-ho the derry-o
...I've two computers I'd like to sell, They're old, but they both still work very well. They are Windows desktops, aka, a PC, One browses with Firefox, And one with IE. I can't recall, now, which ......

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Categories: derry, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Dynamic Dr in Derry's dirty dock'
...Doctor Mcklosky for speaking of truth, mic muted by a judge? Who sides with un-sooth? Not a doctor to refute her.?? I Must take it in ( yet a minion of saturn ) in robes black as sin.' Taking no he......

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Categories: derry, character, courage, education, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Light Verse and Nonsense Verse V
...LIGHT VERSE AND NONSENSE VERSE V Less Heroic Couplets: Word to the Unwise by Michael R. Burch I wanted to be good as gold, but being good, as I’ve been told, requires something, discipline, ......

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Categories: derry, funny, funny love, giggle,
Form: Rhyme



Khristeena
...K hristeena starts a new job. H ope her day is going well. R eally enjoyed the fun we had I n Derry on S aturday. T hey better treat her well or E velyn will be a cross boss. E very woman will......

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Categories: derry, blessing, career, work,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member The Emerald Isle
...I'm going to fly, and see Ireland, The Emerald Isle, My ticket's in hand. Visit in a pub, drink pints awhile. Joke with the Locals, carouse, laugh and smile. Eat real Irish stew, brown w......

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Categories: derry, adventure, friendship, happiness,
Form: Quatrain
Derry Poem
...This place is me, one and the same, collecting bonfire wood, set our hearts a flame, growing up tough, rough with the war still on, living a long life quickly, before our childhoods gone, al......

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Categories: derry, beautiful, feelings, growing up,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Sceilp Level
...They were Lilly Whites from Kildare, And Boggers from County Clare, Herring Gutters from Donegal And Dubliner Jackeens. They were Goat Suckers, Slaneysiders, Magpies and Rossies. They were Kell......

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Categories: derry, america, history, ireland,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Thirty-Two
...from island corner, big Antrim lad to Belfast city, a tiny pad shattered windows, tilted clocks Goliath had lost his socks gargantuan giant going mad Armagh apple girl, any topic ......

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Categories: derry, ireland, nonsense,
Form: Verse
The Drunken Rogue
...I am drunk, stoned, woozy and tipsy Drinking beer, brandy and whiskey, Swinging with abandon like a gipsy. Kinda crazy, sozzled but hella merry… Ha, Mary, kiss me! And Yo Sherry, Your luscious l......

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Categories: derry, addiction,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Phoenix of Peace
...Deep in the heart of Ireland there runs A dark belief the future rests on guns In the midst of a riot in the city of Derry That sinister undercurrent was in play It was then that Lyra, just doin......

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Categories: derry, death, future, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Soldier F
...Soldier F was charged today Disgusted is all I can say Doing a job in times gone by Ask yourselves the reason why Deployed there at the governments request Where's your loyalty out of interest......

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Categories: derry, anger, conflict, discrimination, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Scottish Limericks
...A Scotsman whose mum called him, "Mary" Was sent to a doctor in Derry Before his eyes He was circumcised (Its a wrong way to tip her fairy)! * * * * A lady described as "wel......

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Categories: derry, culture, gender, health, identity,
Form: Limerick
You Have My Permission To Shoot Me
...( … if you catch me doing one of these.) Naming any baby Finton, voting for Hillary Clinton, complimenting Nascar, moving to Nebraska, using "literally" to mean "very", calling Derry Lon......

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Categories: derry, humorous,
Form: Couplet

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