Nantucket Poems - Poems about Nantucket

...I once new a girl from Nantucket Who sat with a turkey to puck it It sure was a site As he put up a fight But it ended quite quick, when she struck it She thought He would make Her thanksgivi......Read the rest...

...Scum Buckets (For a contest) Can American’s be As a whole, like a tree With branches far and wide That is constantly tapped Collecting green sap As in taxes from our thin hide Out of ha......Read the rest...

...There once was a bucket from Nantucket [Trump*]'s aides must make time to lug it While running for office His sh!t from each orifice Needs giant commodes just to flush it *In order to promote ......Read the rest...

...There was a young man from Nantucket, Whose logic for life was to duck it. Scoffed “ignorance is bliss” Till the fates took a piss, Now life’s gone to hell in a bucket. February 6, 2023......Read the rest...

...[For the uninitiated and for the avoidance of confusion, this poem features a Penguin called Pilchard and a Pilchard called Penguin] _____________________________________ Pilchard the Penguin h......Read the rest...

...There was a man from Nantucket Who sold lobsters by the bucket He drove all around No customers found He had no choice but to truck it......Read the rest...

...It's half past giggle time Around these happy parts It always begins with a silly grin That's the way it usually starts Then just like rolling thunder Much laughter fills the air Bunc......Read the rest...

...The sonnet is a tricky thing to write. Quatrains, exactly three, must come before A pair, a couplet, rhyming nice and tight: A rave of fourteen lines, no less, no more. True, limericks and haik......Read the rest...

... Among poetry’s favored elect, there are forms that they tend to reject. With Dangerfield status, There’s nothing that’s gratis; A Nantucket gets no respect! It just needs some polish......Read the rest...

...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 o......Read the rest...

...Nantucket was a bully in town And he pushed everyone around From storekeepers to clerks He had no special perps Until he met Black-flag Who gave him a special tag Nantucket ducked and dodged B......Read the rest...

...The following is a collection of selected critiques of the work of Zoltan Goliath and Otis Trench from a variety of media outlets. The views expressed therein are entirely unsolicited, uncompensate......Read the rest...

...Ahab needed shore leave, And obsessed so on his dream, Harpooning some sweet harlot Had become his major theme. He was just a novice mariner, His first time far from home. He’d made his maid......Read the rest...

...9/14/21 Street and book smart With a good heart To make an impact I took part This ain't a haiku Why are you so worried about what I do I'm nothing like you Often I've been stabbed in the ......Read the rest...

...This is no Nantucket watercolor, Closeted, waiting for the artist’s death To fetch a better price. This is not some dusty postcard landscape, Motionless, stocked in a convenience store Besid......Read the rest...