Long Yankee Poems
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Restoration TownsI was skeptically listening
to a retiring social researcher,
and problem-solving imaginer,
from the American Enterprise Institute;
An Institute
I usually find more destitute
of bicameral consciousness than not,
and thereby with less healthy resonant imagination
than more pathological dissonance.
But, I found...
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Categories:
yankee, community, culture, earth, health, integrity, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Ol' Babe - Both Audio and Text Versions - W-IllustrationHey…did I ever tell you ‘bout the greatest baseball game,
Or should I say…the one that gave “Ol' Babe” his famous name?
Like several other great ones, there were many hits that day,
And if it hadn't...
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Categories:
yankee, baseball,
Form:
Verse
Increase In Head SizeIncrease In Head Size
impossible mission to encapsulate notion
flitting hither and yon, to and fro
within cranium attached to mine body,
whereby irrefutable proof prevails
predicated when yours truly
scrutinizes other people visibly aware,
I a modest married male
blessed,...
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Categories:
yankee, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
Goodbye Six Pack Hello Poetry ScribesGoodbye six pack hello* poetry scribes
My poetic side COSMOFUNNEL
wordsmith thanks tumblr in his noggin
ofttimes triggering babbling brook
to swell after deluge
becoming stream of consciousness runnel
carving, gouging, and liquidating topography
qua zee mow toe natural formed...
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Categories:
yankee, adventure, angst, april, body, father, hair, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Once Pawn a TimeOnce pawn a time...
About four plus weeks after
frazzling fiasco from friggin fraudsters
white knight still mourns swindled money
Lynne Costello Senior Civil Investigator
(assistant to Philadelphia attorney general)
unable to recoup forfeited funds.
While holed up in castle keep,
(albeit fetchodit...
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Categories:
yankee, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form:
Rhyme
In America June 14th Equals Flag DayIn America June 14th equals flag day
and in Pennsylvania a federal holiday.
"...I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the republic for which it stands. One nation under god...
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Categories:
yankee, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th
Form:
Rhyme
Ford's Theater April 15th 1865Ford's Theater, April 15th, 1865...
Petersen House, Washington, D.C.
I admit to own a passion
for the Civil War in general,
and the life and death of
the sixteenth president in particular
between a hard spot of whiskey
and draughts of arrack;
nonetheless...
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Categories:
yankee, absence, age, america, anniversary, april, bereavement, cry,
Form:
Rhyme
G L Trestrail and Co Ltd
A rising sun burns like a solar flare
from St....
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Categories:
yankee, nostalgia,
Form:
Couplet
HiroshimaHIROSHIMA
I remember it well, that first day in Hell
So long ago, I know
As the sirens sounded our Yankee foe
Decided that now his...
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Categories:
yankee, war,
Form:
Ballade
I Relished Being Hungry For Thanksgiving Pop Slop Gloppy GrubI relished being hungry for Thanksgiving pop slop gloppy grub
whereby the missus didst potchke
created whirling dervish hubbub
after enjoying repast,
(fit for a tarnished king),
yours truly able, eager, and ready
to soak my ego freezing carcass in...
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Categories:
yankee, abuse, adventure, appreciation, autumn, blessing, drink, thanksgiving,
Form:
Rhyme
My HeroMY HERO
This is a brand new truth so give me focus attention,
in spite of all I've been through life keep challenging me,
just realizing am on a sinking ship,
following folks in friendship hoping...
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Categories:
yankee, hero,
Form:
Rhyme
Leaving a book incompletely read tantamount to being sacrilegiousPreface:
On February 4, 1861,
the seven states that had seceded
by this point convened and created
the Confederate States of America
under the leadership of Jefferson Davis.
Just under two months later,
on April 12, 1861, Confederate forces
opened fire on...
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Categories:
yankee, absence, america, anxiety, baptism, bereavement, break up,
Form:
Free verse
Adolescent infatuations never consummatedAdolescent infatuations...never consummated
Greetings reader from a cross between an aging seventy inch long (ringing ding dong) haired pencil necked geek and a Norwegian bachelor farmer wannabe; meaning yours truly actually a virtually married Pennsylvania man,...
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Categories:
yankee, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
A Bookish Bound Man Obsessed For Knowledge Crafts Long Poem1.
This hunger artist cannot read
volumes of printed material fast enough
to satiate an immense appetite
and unquenchable thirst
to acquire learning from
the millenniums gushing fount of
cumulative chance revelations,
(or deliberate intent to...
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Categories:
yankee, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction, adventure, books,
Form:
Free verse
Grant This Civil Yankee To Doodle Till Lee Gets Blue In the FaceGrant this civil yankee to doodle till Lee gets blue in the face
blowing 99 red balloons April 9th, 2023
will signal 158 years since Appomattox
plus what would have been ninety sixth birth
of the late...
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Categories:
yankee, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, america, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
I Ask Myself a Rhetorical Question RegardingI ask myself a rhetorical question regarding...
the durability, longevity, and tenacity of Homo sapiens,
after screaming headlines report one after another atrocity.
How did the human species manage to survive
with many means
of self destruction at their disposal?
Atomic...
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Categories:
yankee, africa, america, anger, april, black african american,
Form:
Free verse
My Mother's HandsAs a poet it’s a challenge to put down in words
What a Mother’s hands mean to a child
But as an adult, if memory serves
I remember them being loving, gentle, caring and mild
My Mother’s Hands
Truly a...
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Categories:
yankee, longing, lost love, love, metaphor, mother, mother
Form:
Rhyme
A Trite Nihilistic OccasionA Trite Nihilistic Occasion
This doodling Yankee
(boot noah dandy)
doth newt lack chutzpah,
tries to finagle Fitbit
fitting figurative footwear,
that ideally Fitzhugh
like custom made glove snugly,
terrifically, unequivocally matching,
thence...
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Categories:
yankee, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
Fords Theater April 15th 1865Petersen House, Washington, D.C.
(i admit to own a passion for the Civil War in general,
and the life and death of
the sixteenth president in particular).
between a hard spot of whiskey
...
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Categories:
yankee, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, america,
Form:
Free verse
Being Proactive After Getting Hoodwinked(alternatively titled: tardy duff fender of assertiveness,
especially after adjusting following insanity clause
affixed with rubber baby-buggy bumpers)
Methinks I nearly got snookered
courtesy CVS employee at store number 7569
(address: 1206 North Gravel Pike,
Zieglerville, Pennsylvania 19492)
September ninth, two thousand...
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Categories:
yankee, 11th grade, 12th grade, anger, crazy, father,
Form:
Rhyme
A Trite Nihilistic Occasion - Part OneThis doodling Yankee (boot noah dandy)
doth newt lack chutzpah,
tries to finagle Fitbit fitting figurative footwear,
that ideally Fitzhugh
like custom made glove snugly,
terrifically, unequivocally matching,
thence handily solving Finger hut issue,
when...
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Categories:
yankee, deep, earth, fantasy, goodbye, holocaust, humanity,
Form:
I do not know?
Grant This Civil Yankee To Doodle Till He Gets Blue In the Faceblowing balloons signaling 158 years since Appomattox
(Alternately titled always look on the bright side of life)
Armageddon would be morbidly amazing,
concluding (reign of Homo Sapiens)
fascinating albeit simultaneously catastrophic boon
dog gull...
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Categories:
yankee, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, april,
Form:
Prose Poetry
HeroHERO
“As a boy you’ll go away to that far off distant war
And you’ll come back a man
Of which my son I’m so proud.”
So off to this war I went
To a place that...
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Categories:
yankee, conflict, confusion, men, soldier,
Form:
Free verse
Something To Look Forward To, Part Ii...Emmet just sat down on a bench,
And gratefully took his boots off,
Just stretched himself out there to rest,
for the moment it was enough.
The woman seemed confused by this,
it was clear she expected rape,
but when the...
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Categories:
yankee, courage, death, life, loss, lost, love, war,
Form:
Epic
Something To Look Forward Too, Part IiiAfter moments she shook her head,
then moved over to the brick hearth,
a strew cooked over glowing coals,
she threw more spuds in for her part.
Then came over to the main room,
and sat herself down on a...
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Categories:
yankee, courage, death, life, loss, lost, love, war,
Form:
Epic