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Dooley Poems - Poems about Dooley


Premium MemberWindow Pain

...Three states
in five hours.
Maybe we’ll stop somewhere nice
like a KOA campground.
A kid can hope. It’s hot and it would be great to go for a swim. Instead we stop at the liquor store,
dad buys ...
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Categories: dooley, addiction, anger, anxiety, child
Form: Haibun

Veterinarian Blues

...i'm confused 
at that Dooley 

one eyed 
sphincter 

cat 


it 
has 

two...
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Categories: dooley, 1st grade,
Form: Diamante



Important Part News Plays

...Important part news plays
Does amaze when God will raise
Me up so Him can praise

have been enduring
we need news reassuring
Can be curing

mad mistake truly
hung down head like Tom Dooley
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Categories: dooley, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberExpression Stressed-

...Solid words liquefied;
Bound and told horrified;
Ancient own;
 Dooley honed ;
I am that child 
Buck-wild



7/8/21
Written by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...
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Categories: dooley, analogy, character, emotions, how
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberIrish Limericks

...On March Seventeen on St. Paddy's Day 
Finbar and Connor drank close to the bay          
they ate green saltines 
and caught wild sardines 
but without any jacks, they couldn't stay 

they whi...
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Categories: dooley, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Premium MemberWho's Got Trouble

...I’ve never put a candidate’s bumper sticker on my car before—
why not take sides—what are you waiting for?
Death puts a stop to daily low intensity warfare but in the meantime—
      fight on!
Wh...
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Categories: dooley, america, art, city, dog,
Form: Verse

Trails and Trials

...look around
you can always
find a bread
crumb or
piece of
string

some have been
compromised
suddenly
stop
when
with any

food trail come
hungry animals
including people
unknowingly ...
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Categories: dooley, muse,
Form: I do not know?

Seamus

...envision
images of

jesus but when
speaking every

other word
is F&#@


(Enjoy retirement Dooley)...
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Categories: dooley, muse,
Form: I do not know?

Heart of Magnificent Author

...T-he
H-eart
O-f
M-agnificent
A-uthor
S-imply

D-oes
O-pen
O-ffering
L-iterary
E-normous
Y-ield

Topic: Birthday of poet Thomas Dooley (June 14)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...
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Categories: dooley, birthday, poets,
Form: Acrostic

Ina Mae

...She was 79 years old when she passed away.
She was my aunt and her name was Ina Mae.
When a relative passes away, it's always sad.
Ina Mae was the only blood aunt that I had.

She was special an...
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Categories: dooley, death, dedication, family,
Form: Rhyme

To Take Or Not Take Turn

...To Take or Not Take Turn

Did truly become traumatic
Result of semantic that is static
That you will often experience
And not making much sense.

While waves watched were wretched (Wow all w's...
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Categories: dooley, humorous,
Form: Couplet

Not On the Menu

...Not On The Menu



Sister girl don’t judge the brothers at

The zip mart with oily stained jeans

And dirty fingernails, judging him not clean

Turning your head, 

Sighing with dread

Thinking he go...
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Categories: dooley, appreciation, boyfriend, humor,
Form: Light Verse

Pinked

...Honey, I'm home!! Did you miss me at all?
Where are you?
Yoo-hoo, anybody home??

Have you been extra good, and mmmm
the house seems so fresh and clean, wow!

Did you eat right? 
A-mazing! Yo...
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Categories: dooley, funny, life, people
Form: Light Verse

Gratitude

...Time drags on in this chair, 
 As I wait for the brilliant one.
Each time the door swings out, 
 I look for him to say he's done.

Minutes turn into hours, 
 and all I can do is stare at the cl...
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Categories: dooley, angst, caregiving, confusion, dedication,
Form: Rhyme

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