Short Frankie Poems

It's goodbye to mad Frankie Fraser
The East Ends gangster appraiser
So loyal to the Kray's
To his very last day
One the Sixties ultimate erasures




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Some monsters were mashing in a vault
Then Caspar screamed "it wasn't my fault"
Dracula turned on the light
To reveal Halloween fright
Old Frankie lost his head with loose bolt...

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F-oggy 
R-aindrops 
A-re 
N-ot 
K-ept 
I-nside 
E-vading 

P-lace 
I-n 
G-low 
A-nd 
R-adiance 

Topic: Birthday of Frankie O. Pigar (May 30) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Gracie and Frankie were frogs,
who were sitting on two ends of a log.
They met in the middle,
and started to fiddle,
now their tadpoles all swim in a bog. 

5/27/15...

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F-ine
R-eader
A-dvances
N-otable
K-nowledge
I-n
E-njoying

P-oem's
I-mpartant
G-reeting
A-nd
R-egard

Topic: Birthday of Bro. Frankie O. Pigar (May 30) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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F-lu's
R-abid
A-ttack
N-otoriously
K-ills
I-ndividuals
E-mploying

P-andemic
I-nfection's
G-rime
A-nd
R-isk

Topic: Birthday of Bro. Frankie O. Pigar (May 30) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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How many remember the crooners from way back
Frankie Boy, Perry, Der Bingle, and the King, Cole Nat
Little Richard, Deano
They were the cream
Brings tears to my eyes to remember the pack...

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Murder at the Prom

Frankie Lyman shrilled his falsetto.
Gwendolyn Gould danced in stilettos.
So callously smothered,
they never recovered.
Poor little piggies, scrunched little toes.

©Kathryn McLoughlin Collins
March 11, 2012...

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In the days before Elvis
   Swiveled his pelvis
Young Frankie was rockin'
   The girls with bobby socks on

He crooned those love ballads
   And jazz arias light as tossed salad
His parting shot, a stirring 'My Way'
   On 'Summer Winds' so fickle and gay...

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Frankie, Der Bingle and Perry must all be turning over in their graves
Have you watched or heard today's “singers”... for the good old days I crave
They no longer sing
It's like rhyme talking
Oh for those days of long ago, seems I'm living in the past today...

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'Kinetic conundrums,' such a finely turned phrase, or
perchance 'effervescent rhododendrons' -- their glories ablaze 
The Beatles' walrus cu-cu-ca-chu'd
                                      Frankie boy scooby-dooby-dooed  
    I'd finish this poem, but it might come unglued...

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The feared bounty hunter Frankie McGill
Was tracking bank robber , Montana Bill
Frankie caught him by surprise 
Shot him dead between the eyes
Now Montana's on his way to Boot Hill... 


Written 3rd May 2022. 

High Noon Poetry Contest

Sponsored By Joseph May....

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Casual cabbie cannot conjure classic cucumber coats
Dapper daughter Denise daringly delivers dozen antidotes
Energetic expert eagerly eulogizes and enthusiastically emotes
Friendly fiancé Frankie finds fabulous frozen frolicking floats
Gorgeous grandson Greg grabs giant generous geriatric goats...

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Frankie
Human, Virago, Poet, Dreamer
Mothers Raisha Therese and Joaquin Andres
Lover of butterflies, opals and tulips
Who feels loneliness, strength and hope
Who fears failure, heights and drowning
Who would like to see Europe, heaven and recognition
Resident of Manila, Philippines
Torrelavega...

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Freddy filched Frankie’s fav’rit fudge,
fearless Frankie flattened Freddy to the floor.
Father Fletcher fearing fratricide
fastened Frankie’s feet
firmly to the farmyard fence while friends
fixed Freddy’s fractious frame
fast to the family Ford.

December 8, 2020

contest:  Alliteration
sponsor:  Eve Roper...

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Listen to poem:

Wolfie and Drac went out for a quick drink,

Met up with Frankie who started to stink…

Deadly-while popping his head,

Lively- to wake up the dead,

So the boys took him apart link by link.




Oct.16.2019
A NEW Halloween 
Inspired Limerick
Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin

N/A for contest...

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Annette Funicello started out as a Disney Mouseketeer
We kids loved her totally, she was everything we wanted.
Starring in Babes in Toyland made her even more popular.
I was nine when her Hawaiian paper dolls came out.
Man, there was nothing better than that.
Until she began starring in beach movies with Frankie Avalon....

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How her VOICE, in Our ears like
a bell would be chiming
As she belted out the lyrics like
KANYE be rhyming
To the top of the charts, was she
as a result, climbing
Until, she came to a catastrophic
end like the late Frankie Lymon
Talk about FATE and its having
bad timing
Such was the life of the great,
Phyllis Hyman
(May She, RIP)...

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Lee
Intelligent, creative, intuitive, caring
Daughter of Gordon and June
Lover of travel, Frankie and my family
Who feels sad, loved and lost
Who fears MRIs, elevators and snakes
Who would like to see cancer cured, me thin, all the world
Resident of Wainfleet, Ontario
Ramage


Written September 23, 2012
For Carol “Sunshine” Brown’s Contest
“Life These Days”...

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Gentle, sweet and sagging smile,
No finer music than her snoring - 
My loving English bulldog Frankie.

Just hate to exercise all alone,
Got Frankie to share my walks -
She does, to the end of the driveway.





Written August 25, 2012
For Michael J. Falotico’s contest
“What makes you smile, What makes you frown”
Two Senryus...

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(In Memory of Frankie Abercrombie)
(Dedicated to Regena and Frank Abercrombie)

As he from darkness
Came to light
Did he grin at Daddy
With a smile So bright
While holding onto the Umbilical
Cord, using all of his Might
Since, A child's love for Mama
Comes as god-given right
But, it was like he knew
Inspite of his plight
That He and His Daddy
Would be Real tight...

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Why do I feel that something so bad has happened?
That is because it has happened
The virus ravaging the world
Just like the old films I saw as a kid
Jubilee Videos has the best films
My mum got them for me
Not one was happy or love story
All were war horror death or sex
As Frankie said Relax and Two Tribes
Ultimate sex or total ing war
Nothing but the year has changed...

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Hey you, dog!
With your white tail tipping past my window
Or your face, tricolor, pressed against the glass,
I can see you even in the dark garden, 
But now our garden games are past.

The couch stretched out beside me for a day or two,
The water bowl still full and going green.
The door bell rings and I'm alone to answer.
Frankie Boy! Bad dog! I thought I'd be the one to leave....

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