Quakers Poems

Green Achers

...She must have descended from Quakers

When I asked,"Is there any takers?"

To inherit a yard

Slapped her tushy real hard

So she left me a couple achers...

Remembering the frantic little boy with strawberry blond hair who didn't say boo

...Remembering the frantic little boy with strawberry blond hair who didn't say boo

Nonverbal (though he could talk)
most of his responses
happened to be witnessed
as his characteristic
and court...

Just Having Fun

...well hullabaloo and tyler too
invaluable assets for me and you
Junuesque curves on mrs mcdew
kind-hearted looks from neighbor named Sue

lively love letters found by my best boo
mirth and hilar...

Clerihew Whitman

...Walt Whitman raised by Quakers in Brooklyn
with typographical poetics did begin
'Leaves of Grass&Song of Myself'
devoted to the US commonwealth...

Dribbling

...Dribbling

If someone continually gets knocked down
Eventually they will give up the ghost
If around every corner is more negativity
Which of us has lost the most?

Started to believe
More fo...

MOVE

...It’s always sunny in the city where you feel your brother’s love
Like a shiv that someone’s thrust into your side.
Guess those Quakers let their sourdough turn rancid over time.
Now it’s hard to s...

Abcedarian For Fun

...Alleged anthrax-laden alligator arrives in afternoon
Beyond bright baboon baby bestows brilliance 
Chaste chimpanzees charge chagrined cheetahs 
Doped donkeys deliberate director’s dictate
Elonga...

Eternal Wonderings 2

...When I was little I sang in the choir 
There were Quakers and Methodists
Catholic school friends, there were Jewish
Friends  and dinners and the chanting
of Buddhist monks.  Om Shanti. my own
Pr...

Usa Prayer: Forgive Us All Dear Lord

...Freedom is America's middle name; one is missing ... FORGIVENESS
LORD, please be with USA now, you are the NOW God. America needs U
"Others" feel hated, berated, executed by co...

Dua-Liners-1

...The oat is my hatred;
   but The Quakers are my beloved.

Two crackers that are well-known;
   the one that is eaten and the one that will be blown.

One fact that all can see;
   there is no ...

At a Quaker Meeting

...Shaking out raincoats and umbrellas,
we file into the perfumed hall.
Plush peonies are everywhere,
they strain toward us in super-sized bunches,
hang from shelves and sills,
loll over low shelve...

No Longer a Quaker, Part I

...Redmon Yost lived in Iowa
with mother and siblings,
the oldest of seven children
had just turned seventeen.
His pa had passed on two years back,
Redmon had gone to work,
punching cows at Hollow...

Idle Chatter

...bursting into loud and joyous laughter
gossip will go no farther 
monk conures, preen, and pose 



3/21/2019

 Poetry Contest: Writing Challenge 4, March 2019- Kimo-
Sponsored by: Dear Hear...

I Love Africanamerican Christian Culture: Forgiving Slaveholders and Tyrants

...Some serious religious sophomores claim Christ ('Witness' Bluff)
Almost like Columbus: to hit the Other, take their STUFF

Nothing Doing here; I am a Minister of Jesus' Gospel
For the same Reason...

Donald Trump Re Ducks I Goose

...Axe the old Don, a trump peter n piper
   of incredulous hellish crud - be gone
ha air brushed pompous ****
   Sunkist in Macy's window 

   then like a jackal hound, he doth run
after public o...

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