Short Archie Poems

Archie Bunker
Clumsy clunker
  Sunk in neurotic funk
  Lord of the manor of cliché-ridden junk...

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Mr. Archie Bunker
For the good ole days did hunker
   
   Confronted with 'ethnics' or punkers
   He turned green at the gills...went bonkers...

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Archie, trembling, went to bed
       envisioning Veronica’s lips of red

     Imagine his surprise when instead 
       ~ Jughead there stopped him dead...

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W
Archie fell, shot, in the bullet strewn street
R
G
And when tea was ready he leapt to his feet
M
E
S


12 November 2020
For Kim’s Acrostic Play contest...

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Archie the Ape
Was much maligned
This nice young fellow
Had a pink behind

The glare was amazing
So brightly it shined
Caused gawkers to stare
And totally go blind...

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"Archie" was his wife's favorite phrase 
He was set on not changing his ways 
He was hard to agree with 
Especially with Edith 
When she sang out loud "Those were the days"...

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Archie fell, shot, in the bullet strewn street
And when tea was ready he leapt to his feet



Adapted 6 October 2021
For Your Best Couplet Contest
Sponsor: L Milton Hankins...

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Archie Bunker, blunderer;
Lived life wishing for thunder.
The praise never came;
Had himself to blame;
Archie was no, free-thinker.


Written 2-14-19...

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A snowflake fell
A momma wails
In birthing pains
Number eleven son
Cried today he's eighty four
He loved his own five sons
Two are buried
Howard rests


For Archie C. Culverhouse...

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Archie the Ape
Was much maligned
This nice young fellow
Had a pink behind

The glare was amazing
So brightly it shined
Caused gawkers to stare
And go totally blind


© Jack Ellison 2014...

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Archie Bunker
A good ol' boy,
Opinionated and moody,
He tended to be broody.

Edith Bunker
Was Archie's wife.
With a cheerful outlook she fought his strife.
The one bright spot in Archie's life.


ALL IN THE FAMILY...

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honking and grunting from
the gutbucket of hell,
angry as a burning parrot,
crazy as ju-ju,mad as the third eye,
divine and terrible,beyond all sense
a tenor sax that spikes your heart...

you got it man, you got it.......

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Silhouette
Black, shapes
Point, hold steady, focus
Intense calm, prideful satisfaction
Target




For Mr. Archie/the silhouette maker
this is a cinquain modern version
I challenge others to try this type poem starting with Sara Kendrick...

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Her life didn't unravel well
Fact:  it has been a slow hell
Sadness and disappointments
She sits and lives through much worry
Till time claims her frail shell being
Three fifths of a family
Husband high always doped
Eighty five years of fake!...

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Archie Bunker made Edith a saint
His attitude made most people faint
His words often cruel
He acted like a fool
But She still loved him with no complaints

2/2/19

Limerick 4 Contest

Sponsor: Joseph May

9,9,6,6,9 (Howmanysyllables.com)...

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I don’t mean to bust Archie’s hump.
He meant well, the simple old chump,
   But damn, how buffoonish
   His views, so cartoonish,
In short, he’d have staunchly liked Trump!


(Written February 2, 2019, for Joseph May's Limerick 4 contest.)...

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You enjoy the bright colors 
and brillancy of 
  fantastic comic books
   Kirby, Jusko, Steranko 
    and the master Stan Lee
After entering the "Age of Super Heros"
     You are enlightened 
but remember 
    Archie is still published
(thank G-D for that)...

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Archie Bunker the bigot so grumpy
In old armchair sat crusty and lumpy
Dirty dreary life
Mistreating his wife
Women's lib went quick feisty from frumpy



AP: 3rd place 2022

Submitted on February 4, 2019 for contest LIMERICK 4 sponsored by JOSEPH MAY  -  RANKED 3RD...

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Nobody sat in Archie Bunker's chair

   From which he bloviated with a flair!

      He drove Meat Head up the wall,

         With unmitigated gall!

            Hapless Edith umpired to clear the air!

Entry for Joseph May's "Limerick 4" Contest
(1 February 2019)...

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My name is Archie Templeton-Mead
I'm vice president of corporate greed,
gold, bonds and diamonds, are (in the main)
what I need, so please write a letter, you 
couldn't do better than plant your small seed, 
(avaricious indeed!)
with financial factotum Archie Templeton-Mead...

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A-uthor
R-ightfully
C-omposes
H-eart's
I-nspiring
E-xpression

R-apturously
A-pplying
N-atal
D-ay
O-f
L-egendary
P-oem
H-unter

A-s
M-arvelous
M-essage
O-ffers
N-oble
S-tatement

Topic: Birthday of poet Archie Randolph Ammons (February 18) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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   Archie did cartwheels for Veronica
   Jughead even played his harmonica ~
     But Veronica’s Jewish
     Leaving two suitors bluish ~
   Steinberg made her latkes for Chanukah 



   _________________________________
   'Latkes' are potato pancakes, a traditional
    Chanukah treat.
...

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A-uthor 
R-ightfully 
C-omposes 
H-eartwarming 
I-dea's 
E-ssential

R-emembrance 
A-s 
N-atal 
D-ay 
O-f 
L-ikable 
P-oet 
H-appily 

A-dvances 
M-eaningful 
M-essage 
O-f 
N-oble 
S-tatement 

Topic: Birthday of poet Archie Randolph Ammons (February 18) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Archie Andrews
Lots of girls from whom to choose,
But one young lady caught his eye
For her he could be the lucky guy.

Veronica Lodge
Would never our Archie dodge
She was always his girlfriend
From the beginning to the end. 

FIRST PLACE WINNER
written August 29, 2021
for "Cleritoons" Poetry Contest
sponsored by Joseph May...

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There once was a man named Archie
Definitely not so starchy
Ridicule his best gift
Supremacy his lift
An upper hand controlled Archie

Bunker was his family name
Superiority his game
He put intellect down
Made Michael wear a frown
And his viewers flush with red shame

Syllables checked. 
Written: 02/14/2019...

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