Long Yer Poems
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Uncle Arthur
‘She’s on again - the annual campin’ trip regatta,
and we’ve got ourselves together for our plans to Wonnangatta.
The high country; you can’t beat it for the peace and quiet
unless of course some plans get...
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Categories:
yer, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Snapshots From a Child's West London
I remember my cherished Wolf Cub pack,
How I loved those Wednesday evenings,
The games, the pomp and seriousness of the camps,
The different coloured scarves, sweaters and hair
During the mass meetings,
The solemnity...
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Categories:
yer, child, childhood, children, england, friendship, london, memory,
Form:
Free verse
New Year Poems I
New Year Poetry
Auld Lange Syne
by Robert Burns
translation by Michael R. Burch
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And days for which we pine?
For times we shared, my darling,
Days passed,...
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Categories:
yer, birth, celebration, change, firework, january, new year,
Form:
Rhyme
Halloween Night In the Apple Orchard
Young Timmy saw Jim walking down the street. Timmy considered a quick retreat, but steadied himself with a shrug. Timmy dreaded the sight of Jim, a teenage bully and wanna be thug, who...
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Categories:
yer, children, fear, scary,
Form:
Narrative
Row Houses
Newfoundlanders can row, you should see some of'em go,
when they puts a punt on a pond.
But I don't like this mess, all this Race foolishness,
I'd never seen so much goings on.
If you wants to...
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Categories:
yer, courage, funny, hero, uplifting,
Form:
Ballad
Off fish hill Daylight saving time 2025
Off fish hill Daylight saving time 2025
min(no) newt effect on me.
As part and parcel of terpsichorean repertoire,
one whirling dervish
flaps his wings at the speed of sound.
With twenty three hours
Sunday March 9th, 2025
essentially 2:00:00 to...
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Categories:
yer, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form:
Free verse
Redneck Santa
T'were the night after Christmas, 'n' the house was all dark.
Not much money for 'lectric in the ol' trailer park.
Ma waitin' tables at the club on the base,
jist me and my sisters alone in the...
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Categories:
yer, christmas, parody,
Form:
Rhyme
BROKEN DOWN ANGELS
BROKEN DOWN ANGELS
It disny seem that long ago
Toddling and having fun,
Crawling then walking along the floor
And learning how tae run.
Potty trained and full eh life
They’d run you af yer feet,
A kiss on the cheek...
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Categories:
yer, abuse, addiction, dark, drug, family, health, poverty,
Form:
Rhyme
A Darzet Countree Lad Be Oi
Oi be nowt but an auld country hick,
we a liddle bit of gall, an a lotta stick.
Oi baint niver afeared to speak me mind,
nor critizise folks harshly iffen Oi find
zummit I don’t loik. Tis...
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Categories:
yer, immigration, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
The Maiden Drive
Five rings for fifty-one again and once more winning brings,
another pot of loser’s beer for throwing rubber rings.
That’s twenty-seven ‘freebies’ in a row, so by now it looks
like I’m the bloke who changed the record...
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Categories:
yer, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Grannys Laughing Cake
I often think back to that care free age and those wondrous six weeks of school holidays,
The Prison was out ,
nothing more to learn and with any luck the place would burn .
It...
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Categories:
yer, child, grandparents,
Form:
Rhyme
No Pirate’s Lament
When the ocean’s calm and shiny it be joyous to behold
When the spyglass sights Port Royal there be good rum to be sold
When a pirate holds the spyglass and his ship be filled of gold
Might...
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Categories:
yer, sea,
Form:
Rhyme
SAMHUINN
SAMHUINN
Wi samhuin fast approaching
When people start tae dread,
The gates of hell burst open
For the festival of the dead.
Bane shanks lifts his scythe
And scrieves his words in fire,
Welcome tae this earthly plane
Or be cast upon the...
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Categories:
yer, fantasy, fear, halloween, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
The Sage of Glasgow
~ I - I Arrive in Glasgow ~
When I arrived in Glasgow town
I knew nary a soul
So tired I's nearly fallin' down
Yet I'd no place to go
I wandered up Buchanan street
In hopes...
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Categories:
yer, friendship, travel, wisdom,
Form:
Lyric
TransplanT
Aided by the wind,
entities take flight like prismatic colors-
talismanning chanced direction
"of watering misfit eye",
looking for a new place
to touchdown...
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Categories:
yer, angel,
Form:
Rhyme
Marinated Rabbit Stew
I went fishing with my brother Ron, and a bloke named Tommy Grace.
We had camped along the Tarago where we could fish on Harvey's place.
Ron brought along his rabbit traps; he don't like fishing much...
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Categories:
yer, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
You Never Know Till You Get To Know
One dark night a saucer crashed;
the military quickly cleaned up the trash.
In the distance, what they didn’t see;
a thin, white face between the trees.
Once all was quiet, little Gili-ok crept,
from the woods where he had...
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Categories:
yer, funny, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form:
Light Verse
Innocent of the Racket
I was strolling to the entrance of the Barley Tavern,
when I was passed at quite a rate by angry Billy Brown.
He’s mumbling and cursing before he kicked the Tavern cat,
and blamed it as the reason...
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Categories:
yer, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Rolling Stones
Once upon a time in the lands from the north, south, east to west
Navigating on the cold white sands formed of sugar and ice ...
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Categories:
yer, funny, mountains, ocean, river, silly,
Form:
I do not know?
What'Ll We Drink Now
I’d never been outside Victoria except once on the Murray,
where we fished for near a week only giving carp some curry,
but of course that was my highlight going on that camping trip.
I talked so much...
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Categories:
yer, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Buzzy's Legend
Copyright 2014 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Poetic Lyrics By Thomas Lam Hsi
THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUE GOD...THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY...WHO ALONE CAN
SAVE FROM Satan...who plays 'all' roles...the devil...the 'Lord Jesus'...
the 'Father'...the 'Holy Spirit'...all 'Other Gods'...and 'alien gods'...HE...THE
LORD...
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Categories:
yer, adventure, angst, boat, childhood, hero,
Form:
Ballad
Daylight Savings Time 2023
Daylight Savings Time 2023...
in Pennsylvania will begin at 2:00 AM
on Sunday, March twelfth
and moost likely will impact
min-née-ute effect on me
a run of the mill on the Floss
amazingly gracefully aging
long haired pencil necked geek,
who welcomes...
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Categories:
yer, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form:
Rhyme
Migrating Blowflies
‘Davo’ rang me up, ‘bout a month ago,
To travel with him on a trip,
Way up north to Glenora station,
So he can search through Harry’s tip.
‘Davo’ you see has a hobby,
Collecting bottles, some worth more than...
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Categories:
yer, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Didn't we all become poets ii
/ "Like Open-Mic Explosions from The End of Language". - Chat-GPT comment /
_____
Madmen leaked a rash of sky-blue puddle;
fatally cloistered the hat-flu's hubble -
To wit:
The half-time half-life smile of she and the other half-wonder of...
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Categories:
yer, allusion, america, hip hop, howl, humor, language,
Form:
Free verse
Suffusion of Profuse Elation
Ah...herewith ma usual
dose of pablum from this meal
lee mouthed muttering
doggerel wordsmith,
who now writes...
so here's...
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Categories:
yer, 10th grade, 11th grade, 8th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse