Long St patricks day Poems

PFC ABBETT WAS MORE THAN JUST ONE OF OUR FELLOW MEMBERS HE WAS MORE THAN A VIETNAM VETERAN HE WAS THE COMPLETE PACKAGE HE WAS A HERO WORKING EFFORTLESSLY ON THE VETERANS MEMORIAL PARKS IN...

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today when we went to visit you 
we saw a little leprachaun visiting with you 
He was there at the gravesite sitting with you 
he greeted us so happily 
" so very pleased to meet...

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Well it’s March 17th the best day of the year
For the wearing of the green and the drinking of green beer
For eating corn beef and cabbage until you can’t have another bite
And drinking of course...

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LAURELS TO GREEN.


Mum has prepared an avacado jam,
green tints in chroma highlight the campus,
a stoll dyed in artichoke green is on my shoulder,
gala time with friends in green,we hang around in green,
Myrtle plants rejoice..Yeah! festive...

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Well it’s March 17th the best day of the year
For the wearing of the green and the drinking of green beer
For eating corn beef and cabbage until you can’t have another bite
And drinking of course...

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Grandma,

It has been two ears
Since I got the call.
“she’s gone”
Gone. Forever. No more.
I sat in bed and cried.
Cried so hard I would shake.
Tried to put on my bravest and happiest face.
Failed.
Didn’t get to say goodbye
Didn’t...

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Smacked the shalliwag’s hand good and clear
He might be my cousin, but not really dear
He was getting too close to my golden pot
He should have known better, he really ought

Hey! The Clurichaun yelled as I...

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Labor Day 
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oh gosh
here we are comming up on St. Patricks Day
and by some miracle of God
i am forced to write about
some saint named Declan
no, you don't know his name 
i did'nt either
but God has a way
of...

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St. Patrick’s Day

                       Just touching the boundary of my land
   ...

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The poor lad was sixteen when they kidnapped him
They took him from England to Ireland but the boy did not sin.
His father was a Deacon and his grandfather was a Priest
Who would have thought this...

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Proud fathers  and relatives of the past.
Ghost's of thoose first Irish americans.
Eventhough the ignorant tried  to kill us 
still we did last.

Using  are fists and breaking are backs.
from New York to Boston.
Green...

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ickity dickity splickity mertickity splay
Homer and Oscar have both had a persnickety day
They are dancing a swiggle wiggle jig, heading my way
I love watching these identical leprechauns on St. Patrick’s day

ickity dickity splickity mertickity blarney...

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Seventeenth of March is Saint Patrick’s Day
Great day for the Irish I can honestly say
All over the world they’ll wear the green
Drink some stout and a glass of poteen
There will be parades up and down...

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Memory

I sat there drifting
The fire spat like a cat
It seemed to carry my eyes
Held them in it’s sparkle

Drifted them upward 
Where dreams took over
There was your face 
That laugh of long ago

Across a table at...

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Al had dated many women from France, Spain, England and such.
you have never dated an Irish lassie though? Asked his brother Dutch.
not yet, he admitted, are they different than the ones I have squired?
Dutch said,...

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~Very Happy St. Patrick's Day~
(Free Style)


St. Patrick's Day
we're celebrating today
folks wear color green

They drink green beer and dance
and throw parades everywhere
people wear shamrocks

St. Patrick's Day
is a day of magic
merry and laughter

people celebrate
drink eat, have fun...

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is there room for the Irish in the good ole USA?
room for the hanging of the greens, Hennessey O’Shay?
we will hang this flag over our tavern on Tuesday.
Irish parade will come by and leave a...

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Here comes a bit of blarney for you
I looked up and saw the boy named Stew
He was known for tall tales and lies.
One of those entertaining Irish guys.

Saw Johnny Cash at the pub just now.
He...

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Top of the Morning to you
It is a beautiful day, right cousin Lou?
Until the parade starts, what shall we do?
We have to entertain ourselves ‘til two.

My idea is to buy corned beef for Sue.
She is...

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He is a poser Irish I said. Freckles probably painted on.
I don’t think so replied my great great aunt Dawn.
I bet he’s not got a drop of Irish blood, I said.
When I learned the truth...

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~Very Happy St. Patrick's Day~
(Free Verse)


St. Patrick's Day
we're celebrating today
folks wear color green

They drink green beer and dance
and throw parades everywhere
people wear shamrocks

St. Patrick's Day
is a day of magic
merry and laughter

people celebrate
drink eat, have fun...

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St Patrick’s day cat wore a tam to die for.
We saw him the second he sauntered into the door.
The pub would never be the same, he was glamor and more.
A fine dapper Irish cat, who...

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Colleen is riding a pipe to Dublin town.
She’s dressed in the greens, wearing a gown.
I wonder if she will ride the pipe to me? Asked a clown.
The rest of us stared at him, one gave...

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~Happy St. Patrick's Day~ 
(Free Verse) 


St. Patrick's Day 
we're celebrating today 
folks wear color green 

They drink beer and dance 
and throw parades everywhere 
people wear shamrocks 

St. Patrick's Day 
is day of magic...

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