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Premium Member Halloween Newsflash --- Say-Hey
Hearken, hear ye, what we say O'er runways and roadways Swirling snowflakes are falling today Sidewalks, slushy and slick need new navigation in...

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Categories: newsflash, celebration, halloween, snow, today,
Form: Rhyme
Newsflash
How come they're not trying to ban poison or knives or sunshine, alcohol, baseball bats, aerosols, chemtrails. Because those things aren't the two that protect the people the most. Free speech and guns....

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Categories: newsflash, blessing, bullying,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Newsflash - Rudolph Demoted
Claus chose Vixen to lead his sleigh this year. Rudolph was assigned to bring up the rear. Vixen was promoted; Rudy was demoted, Since he was sozzled and too...

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Categories: newsflash, christmas, funny,
Form: Limerick
Sparrow Hawk - Newsflash
What was that I just heard I think it was a baby bird The sparrow hawk has come today To take some baby birds away He doesn’t come to be nice It’s all a question of life He has his own brood of chicks to feed And his supermarket is in the tree He doesn’t have a qualm Neither does he have a...

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Categories: newsflash, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Newsflash
NEWS FLASH!!! Yeah, I read it and hear it all the time- But I’m sick of reading the headlines, And I’m tired of hearing the news- I cry for the kids and old ones, ‘cause so many are being abused. Shootings here - beatings there, Daily crime happening everywhere- I cry for the elephant chained for 50 years, I’m sick of lawyers saying, “It’s...

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Categories: newsflash, anger, judgement, life, loss,
Form: Rhyme



Newsflash
Newsflash Newsflash: There will be not any Christmas this year. Santa's elves are on strike for better pay and no Obamacare. The FAA has grounded Rudoph. So Santa has to use Twikle toes for more light. Santa's doctor told Santa to lay off the cookies because he won't get off the ground. The other reindeer wants more feed because they...

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Categories: newsflash, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Oxymoron Newsflash:
"EARLY TONIGHT, according to HEAR SAY, things got PRETTY UGLY when a SINGLE GROUP of HELLS ANGELS became SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE to control during an ALL OUT MINOR CATASTROPHE at the MICROSOFT WORKS sponsored MEXI-CALI JUMBO SHRIMP Festival“. (in a strange way, this type of wishy-washy lingo reminds me of our lovely National news)...

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Categories: newsflash, confusion, funny, imagination, satire,
Form: Prose Poetry
Newsflash: Toddler's Tragic Cry
a toddler crawls in bank vault-- timed to close—door shuts-- darkness—tragic cry mom calls nine one one drill for four hours--door opens mom hugs child tightly...

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Categories: newsflash, caregiving, childhood, confusion, life,
Form: Haiku
Newsflash: Charmer In Jail
charmed four wives--same time; loved each 'til her cash dried up-- charmer in jail now...

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Categories: newsflash, family, husband, life, loss,
Form: Senryu
Newsflash
Newsflash Nature at your door A spectacle of wonder Live on channel four Raucous reporters flailing Beneath whistling knifes Glued eyes anesthetized By potential loss of life Ratings rapidly rising Above muted horizontal rain Complacency collapsing beneath Just another hurricane Clothed carcasses floating Down raging river roadways My God was that my neighbor With whom my daughter plays Excuses evacuated As a tragedy tunes in Nature doesn’t play politics But it...

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Categories: newsflash, natural disasters, death,
Form: Quatrain

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