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Hurray Poems - Poems about Hurray


No Expectations
Can a song be so sad it becomes beautiful? A record listened to with such incessance Its needle scratches and wobbles Becomes desperate new notes for the melody? The song unrecognizable to the listener Without its own personalized warp From a thousand roundabout journeys? Try Hurrah For The Riff Raff’s Good Time Blues (An Outlaw’s Lament) Or their Ogallala Try on Steve Earle’s Last Words Or...

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Categories: hurray, appreciation, beautiful, creation, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Election Day - Hurray
Tomorrow is Election Day Hurray! No more attack ads An end to hyperbolae and unproven accusations... We'll throw out a few bums Elect some new ones Two years later ~ They'll all beat the same drums...

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Categories: hurray, america, perspective, repetition,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Hip, Hip, Hurray
Hip, Hip, Hurray! January 1 is New Year's Day! Is it special in any form or way? Is there anything special in the Heavens to see? --Not there that I know of, or under the sea. The day is not marked by significant event; Not by Christmas, or Easter, or the Six Weeks of Lent. Yet...

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Categories: hurray, celebration, holiday, new year,
Form: Rhyme
Hurray Library
Look inside the box Find the sound that knocks Like the wave when it crashes Like the lightning when it flashes You can't hold it, but you can get it Get to know what's there Bring it out, bring it here Endlessly, effortlessly Keep working like a bee Keep trying, you'll see, A marvelous light A treasure of day and night Here is the box Here; stay some BOOKS! Bring...

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Categories: hurray, bird, books, life, light,
Form: Free verse
Pip Pip Hurray
Sending the tending to an unfriended ending, yet somehow suspending from rending a newly offending recommending. Logotype monotype linotype, overripe stereotype, teletyped an unripe heliotype. Guttersnipe snipe, stipe snipe ripe, a wipe type a tripe, unleash a withering hype. Dip snip, nip lip, slip skip, rip the apple pip over a battleship Chip. Clip, airstrip, blip, scrip, gyp, flip, dip. Unsip, blue clip, A warship, weathering stick. To miche an...

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Categories: hurray,
Form: Verse



Hip Hip Hurray-Debbie's Birthday
Debbie's birthday Hip Hip Hurray, all ku no play National ku day! Hip Hip Hurray gift some haiku, National ku day I write,you too! Gift some haiku chocolate no more, I write you too one,two,three,four! Chocolate no more cake of haiku, one,two,three,four haiku in a queue! Cake of haiku mind your syllables, haiku in a queue how many candles? Mind your syllables not less not more, how many candles behind the back door:) Not less not more must be perfect, behind...

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Categories: hurray, funny, tribute,
Form: Pantoum

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry