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Nantucket Poems - Poems about Nantucket

Premium Member Sarah
staring at a stereo in the Serengeti Sarah getting stir crazy gotta get out of this ghetto Sarah saw a chance and took it sailed on a sailboat slowly to Nantucket thanks wholly to her Nan’s ticket nice of her and now Sarah seems brighter somewhat better as she wrote neatly in her Nan’s letter ...

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Categories: nantucket, fun, humorous, mental health,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Nantucket 1942
I am running the Sconset bluff path. I go past darkened houses, black out curtains hanging, past Linda Thomas and Jolene Baer who are chasing rabbits into the privet hedges. Their fathers call out to them- “Careful girls!”- drinks sloshing, ice tinkling as I go by invisible, yet sensed. A summer later, I will be gone. Starched, ironed khakis in a trunk wait ahead in my room. The beginning...

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Categories: nantucket, war, world war ii,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Girl From Nantucket
There once was a young girl from Nantucket Who's charms overflowed by the bucket If you ever saw her nude You'd try not to be rude But you'd try to cover up your large nugget You were expecting something else perhaps???...

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Categories: nantucket, fun,
Form: Limerick
A Girl From Nantucket
There once was a girl from Nantucket Who entered a horse stall to muck it But the horse had passed And there was only an ass So she didn’t need quite so much bucket...

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Categories: nantucket, horse, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member A Lady From Nantucket
Knew this lady from Pawtucket Her job was to carry a bucket Back from the well Twas heavy as hell She finally told her boss “take a hike” (Expecting something else perhaps???)...

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Categories: nantucket, giggle,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Man From Nantucket - Redux
He’s much older, the man from Nantucket can too easily fold, roll, or tuck it his hearing has faded his memory jaded don’t remind him of where he once stuck it John G. Lawless ©8/6/2018...

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Categories: nantucket, humor,
Form: Limerick
Donald Trumpet In Nantucket
Donald Trumpet in Nantucket Had gone on new trip to Nantucket And his name was Donald Trumpet; Had no appeal; Blew each deal; His brains were spilled in a bucket. Jim Horn...

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Categories: nantucket, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Nantucket Man
There was a young man from Nantucket who git his stuck in a bucket. When he couldn't get free he said oh deary me I wonder how I can ow unstuck it....

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Categories: nantucket, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member A Girl Fom Nantucket
There once was a young girl from Nantucket Who's charms overflowed by the bucket If you ever saw her nude You'd try not to be rude But you'd try to cover up your large nugget You were expecting something else perhaps!!! © Jack Ellison 2015...

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Categories: nantucket, humorous,
Form: Limerick
An Elf From Nantucket
There is an old elf from Nantucket He carries his harp in a bucket When I asked him why He gave this reply, "It makes it so easy to pluck it!...

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Categories: nantucket, funny, music,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Girl From Nantucket
I once knew a girl from Nantucket Who chased down a goose, just to pluck it As she ran, took a spill So he gave her a quill And I guess we all know, where he stuck it Just not clean enough for contests---lol...

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Categories: nantucket, adventure, animal, crazy, hilarious,
Form: Limerick
Along the Nantucket
""Such are these days floating along the Nantucket - picture frames of days gone by forever sublime in my minds eye - reflected upon from time to time, and oh so you know how I've lived to breathe this - truly what an-honor, this sweet grace... perfect a righteous gift it is - the day...

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Categories: nantucket, inspirational
Form: Prose Poetry
Nantucket Nursery Rhymes
gardening back the perennial shade, no time or reason to follow these months into their graves. wandering whale songs through a nantucket wheather vain storm in the plow and bury the fishnet parable. a sower of seeds carries the mythic legend, the horse drawn mantle and...

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Categories: nantucket, allegory,
Form: I do not know?
Nantucket
There once was a man from Nantucket, Who carried his milk in a bucket, When it sloshed on the street, You could hear him repeat, "I should get a straw and go suck it."...

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Categories: nantucket, funny,
Form: Limerick
Another Man From Nantucket
There once was a man from Natucket who carried his brains in a bucket. His container capsized and he cried in surprise, now what was I thinking? Oh furk it!...

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Categories: nantucket, funny,
Form: Limerick

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