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Likker Poems - Poems about Likker


Premium Member The Ballad of Villonia Beebe, a Life In Three Parts: Part 3
...Obituary The following notice recently appeared in the Toad Suck Monthly News Express. The management apologizes for the tardiness of its publication: Ms. Villonia Beebe has passed awa......

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Categories: likker, humor, obituary,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Ballad of Villonia Beebe, a Life In Three Parts: Part 1
...Harrys, And then settled, in due course, For a handsome hunk named Homer Whose nickname was "Horse". They lived as wife and husband then for sixty-four years, A life of trials and tribulations, lots of laughter, lots of tears. Homer made and sold corn "likker" From a still up in the hills, And Vee would sometimes turn a trick or two To help pay the bills. The lovebirds made their minds up when they turned ninety-five That they would live to ......

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Categories: likker, humor,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Refurbished Nursery Rhymes: Jack and Jill, a Moonshine Lullaby
...Where Hillbilly Jack Sent his pregnant wife, Jill, Was not for a pail of well water. She tramped up that hill For some swill from a still, But returned with a new baby daughter. Jack wasn't a......

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Categories: likker, humor, nursery rhyme,
Form: Light Verse
Poems About Poets I
...Poems about Poets I The Wonder Boys by Michael R. Burch for Leslie Mellichamp The stars were always there, too-bright cliches: scintillant truths the jaded world outgrew as baffled poet......

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Categories: likker, inspiration, muse, poems, poetry,
Form: Verse
Epigrams Iii
...Speechless at Auschwitz by Ko Un loose translation by Michael R. Burch At Auschwitz piles of glasses mountains of shoes ... returning, we stared out different windows. Ko Un speaks for all......

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Categories: likker, humor, literature, philosophy, poems,
Form: Epigram



Fahr An' Ice
...Fahr an' Ice by Michael R. Burch From what I know of death, I'll side with those who'd like to have a say in how it goes: just make mine cool, cool rocks (twice drowned in likker), and ......

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Categories: likker, death, drink, fun, humor,
Form: Light Verse
The Baptizing of Elroy Snead
...They called him Roy, since he was a boy, but his name was Elroy Snead Born in the hills 'mongst the likker and stills he couldn't write or read But he had a good mind, was gentle and kind, loved hi......

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Categories: likker, history,
Form: Rhyme
Epigrams
...Epigrams by Michael R. Burch If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it. —Michael R. Burch To write an epigram, cram. If you lack wit, scram! —Michael R. Bu......

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Categories: likker, bible, metaphor, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Epigram
Anvil Bob and the Stranger
...The sun was down when the batwings swung An' Anvil Bob walked in. Bob's name came from the blacksmith trade He's stronger than strong men He was more than mad, he looked fierce, There was blood......

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Categories: likker,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member Mockingbird - Crown of Sonnets
...#1 "It is a sin to kill a Mockingbird. While playing games with rocks or guns, defray, them, please, ...shoot old tin cans. Each whispered song from Mockingbirds, can heal the wound......

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Categories: likker, children, discrimination, integrity, prejudice,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Behind the Scenes
...He scorns all these young potheads and their habits. He vows he’d never do a thing like that. He pours himself a glass of amber liquid, Locates his keys and dons his tattered hat. He drives dow......

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Categories: likker, satire
Form: Rhyme
City Cousin
...My city cousin called them fireflies To me it was a lightnin' bug Her father drank imported beer My pa drank corn likker from a jug Her mother had fine linens Spread on the table with care My......

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Categories: likker, childhood, family, life, father,
Form: Rhyme

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