Hokum Poems | Examples


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	      Hokum pokum
                 we don’t tokum

              Chocolate cigarettes
                  our kids smoke ‘em

              Wheaties Eaties
                  our kids don’t need ‘em

               Steroids for breakfast’s ~
                   what we feed ‘em

Premium Member Captain Hokum

I'm Captain Hokum of the British Admiralty.
May I offer you a spot of tea
and tell you of my master plan
conceived in the Sea of Japan?
I set a bottle adrift, afloat,
and included in it a nifty note
which read: "If you find this vial or urn,
put in one sixpence,and return".

Premium Member Connaught - county hokum

  seductive Galway gal would not stay
  such savage beauty she went astray
  whether Corrib, whether Mask
  Connemara man to ask
  to Inishbofin she played away

  Leitrim lout took drink by the flagon
  very short coast, very short wagon
  went inland to buy a boat
  all-aboard, beer for his goat
  so raised a glass, Carrick-on-Shannon

  wild west playboy from county Mayo
  did for his dad, very own say so
  holy mountain, dreaming star
  left the pub at Castlebar
  shoe hanging out his Ford Mondeo

  Roscommon culchie, gangly and rare
  hung out near Boyle with spindly long hair
  web below her knobbly knee
  bank to bank across lough Ree
  wrapped up her men, eight legs in the air

  our Sligo boy, no good at countin'
  he spied some girls down by the fountain
  one, two, three, how many more?
  his favourite to adore
  he chased her up Benbulben mountain


Premium Member Munster - county hokum

  daft colleen from precipitous Clare
  bold like the Burren, grey bedrock stare
  turloughs flowing, born and bred
  banner county, father Ted
  Cliffs of Moher she jumped for a dare

  floaty accent, wayward man of Cork
  culinary city, knife and fork
  horizon dreams he was fed
  Cobh harbour past Mizen head
  around Kinsale then off to New York

  bad tempered Kerryman lost his ring
  by the Killarney lakes he did fling
  butt of jokes, very cruel
  Dingle berries, Carrantouhill
  his MacGillycuddys reek and sing

  Limerick poetess made you think
  five lines she wrote then, ran out of ink
  first, second and fifth must rhyme
  shorter third and fourth are fine
  but must keep their rhythm all in 'sync'

  Tipperary jockey rode with pace
  sure she won the Grand National race
  cheered from lough Derg to Cashel
  from Nenagh down to Clonmel
  loud bells were rung for her steeplechase

  Waterford witch, many followers
  her crystal glass, many swallowers
  toast to the oldest city
  viking girl, very pretty
  velvet voice. plenty polymers

the short poem

The short poem

There was a time when writing poetry 
was important to say something, using a few words
Long poems were frowned upon as a beginning
of a manuscript

He used to be a communist, as his mother was one
Communism, like unbridled capitalism, hates 
free speech, want a restriction on what to express
unless it is in favor of the regime
To be any good at isms, one needs passion and 
hatred against those who do not succumb to the norm
the standard set not to upset the powerful
He gets angry seeing injustices and says, but he is lucky
for him, he is too small to be noticed
he prefers to use irony, which is easier to get away 
with as those in power lack humor
He does not believe in ideology or creed for him 
it is hokum, a snare for the gullible 
Years have made him wary of governments of any
description because they tend to be led by people
who lacks a long view led by the intoxication of money and power

Premium Member The Meaning of Life

Seeing a drunk sprawled out
  on the front steps of a three-flat
and a beggar plying his trade
  at the end of the block

The lad tightened his grip 
  on his mother's arm
walking home from school
  when a few harmless shots rang out

The meaning of life had 
  crossed the mother's mind
earlier in the day, and though
  she thought it was hokum, still
she stared up at the ceiling all night

as her lone child whimpered softly
  in the crook of her arm
and the business report on the radio
  waxed ecstatic over another S&P 
                 record-setting day


Are You

Are you the one 
Whom I see in my dream
Or the one 
Reason behind my scream
Whenever I think you are just a hokum
You prove me wrong 
Making me feel 
You are a handy one
Are you the light of my eyes 
Or blindness of my life
Whenever I think 
I was asinine to choose you
You make me abjure 
To give you sanity
Are you a cosy guy 
Or an abrasive man
The reason to my astern 
Or a surreal plan
I don’t know why
I recite story of our lives
Whenever I think
You are glory of my eyes 
You become an anguish of my past…………

Premium Member What Happens After

O COVID with the MO-VID, you murder bug,
Your sweet quarantine champions my gloom.
Never the buff of a handshake or hug,
Serene in the still of my fond hermit room,
Blessed detention, the liberty of walls;
And though this woe suffers me to talk
To those within these connubial halls,
Exposing my hokum, I say Fie to the Pock,
And mop my **** on duplicitous reams
Of Scotts fair ply, though I’m uncertain why
I stalk the isles in this squirreling dream
Most grateful to shop, most willing to buy

What I do not know: what this mad old bastard
Needs from his truth, and what happens after.

What Happened

What HAPPENED to the love we had
What happened to the dreams we had
What happened to the moments we treasured
What really  happened to the love you had for me
Did it just fade away like it never existed 
Or maybe it was washed away with your sins; who knows

What happened to the dreams of us being parents of the same kids
The hopes we had that wouldn't just end
The dreams of us being under the same roof- or did you just wake up
The dreams of us putting on royal wears- of a King and Queen 
Or putting on ballers wears; He's mine--> she's mine
I'm lost in thoughts and found in confusion, maybe its a hokum

We used to gaze at the stars together and smile
You used to say my eyes are brighter than the stars, I remember
But now I guess the darkness outshined them- you lied
 Why did you let human words 'mtaachana tu' separate us
You said I'm  your last but now you happier than us
I thought communication was the key and loyalty is the lock

Broken

She had the fixation of their closeness
Ubnormally,her heart flapping from left to right 
That night her table full of flagons
And every love film she saw was a hokum to her

Her thoughts flipped for a not found answer 
And now thought she was mentally handicapped
But all these hidden in a peculiar smile
She hoped to get out of it some days

She amiably treasured her old days,she remembered
Contemplating about quitting, but again condemned the thought
Feeling not contented with everything around her
She was an avid avenger 

Every night didn't go along
She looked the skies with the beauty of her eyes
Though helplessly lying on the floor
But she hoped to get out of it some days

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