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Short Kilmer Poems

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Premium Member Deceased Tree
A tree is now dead. How would Joyce Kilmer react if he could see it?
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Categories: kilmer, death, nature,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Im Your Huckleberry
I’m your huckleberry
Always makes me smile
Since Val Kilmer used it in the move Tombstone

My husband and I used it over and over
The month after we saw the movie
Delighted us beyond any sane reason

To this day when I hear it
I have the same reaction
And I smile...

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Categories: kilmer, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member one of my favorite westerns
Tombstone
law goes after thugs
my favorite western without John Wayne
Loving Val Kilmer and Kurt Russell
“I’m your huckleberry”
Held breath during shoot out at O.K. Corral
Rooted for Josie and Wyatt to get together in the end
Even though I do not usually root for a homewrecker...

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Categories: kilmer, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Kilmer's Poem 'Trees'
I think that there shall never ever be,

Another poem as lovely as the poem "Trees"

Joyce Kilmer to me is the bards' epitome,

Since his simple verse soothes like an August breeze!

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
All Rights Reserved

Placed No. 3 in  Russell Sivey's "Poetry About Poetry" Contest - January 2013...

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Categories: kilmer, on writing and words,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Emagi - Trees By Joyce Kilmer
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4th May 2023...

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Categories: kilmer, fun, tree,
Form: Shape



Premium Member That Kilmer Thing
When I think of a poem, "as lovely as a tree,"
I ponder what sacrifice was made for me.

More than lovely smooth white paper
on which to write poetry.

The bite to its bark must have caused pain,
slicing through wood-skin turned
so thin that I could write on it and be real.

And all I can do is apply some ink
to help it heal....

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Categories: kilmer, environment, introspection, nature, poetry, tree,
Form: Free verse
Respectfully, Joyce Kilmer...
I think that I have never known
a tree as lovely as a poem.

A poem that in a single breath
infuses life, defying death

with words that move in stylish grace
and give emotion resting place.

A poem reflecting life and love
and faith, perhaps, in He above

who gave the world the lovely tree
and the gift of rhyme to fools like me.

Though God made trees and I, this poem,
within its lines I find my home....

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Categories: kilmer, on writing and words
Form: Couplet
Fleas - With Apologies To Joyce Kilmer
I think that I shall never see
a beast as loathsome as a flea.

A flea whose hungry mouth consumes
all the blood that it exhumes.

A flea that gets into my hair
and makes me scratch 'til I am bare.

A flea that makes me itch all day
and irritates in every way.

Upon whose head curses we rain;
whose biting we have scratched in vain.

Poems are made by fools like me,
but God should not have made the flea....

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Categories: kilmer, funny, humor, parody,
Form: Rhyme
A Pink-Hued Tree
I know that every time I see
The pink-hued blossoms of a tree
There’s no way I can feel depressed,
For this is Nature at her best.

The rosy petals gently sway
When breezes blow and if they stay 
Some flowers flutter through the air 
And near the trunk add color there.

Throughout the spring, these trees retain
Their beauty and will thus remain
The muse for rhyming poetry 
Like Kilmer wrote, improved by me!...

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Categories: kilmer, inspiration, poetry, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member With Apology To Joyce Kilmer
(a parody of "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer)

I doubt that we shall ever see
A more handsome pair than you and me
Me, whose hungry mouth is pressed
Against your ample, perky breast
You look at me with sparkling eyes
And utter those sweet whispering sighs;
The tiara I gave you, you proudly wear
Above the bangs upon your hair;
In your bosom my head has lain
I’ve chased you through the pouring rain.
My mother and father alone made me
But, God alone made you, I see....

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Categories: kilmer, humor, parody,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Winter - With Apologies To Joyce Kilmer
Winter
..with apologies to Joyce Kilmer


I think that there shall never be
Another winter such as thee.

A winter in which snow didst fall
In depths to six and eight feet tall;

A winter Hugging frozen ground
Muffling all prayerful sound;

A winter icing Kilmer’s trees
Where now the robins slowly freeze;

Who would beg for melting rain
Upon the deepening snow now lain.

Winter makes the piles of snow
But only God can make them go.


John G. Lawless
2/9/2015...

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Categories: kilmer, humor, snow,
Form: Rhyme
Ice Cream
(with apologies to Joyce Kilmer, author of the poem “Trees”)

I think that I shall never dream
A poem lovely as ice cream.

It’s soft and smooth and cold and sweet—
An opulent delight to eat.

Vanilla, chocolate, cookie dough,
Pecan, or mint—my heart’s aglow.

I guess you, too, know what I mean—
You’re heading out to Dairy Queen.

No tribute could with taste compete,
So go ahead: enjoy your treat.

And unlike any poem yet,
You’ll find it ends too soon, I bet....

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© Ed Morris  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: kilmer, food, funny, humor, humorous, parody, poems, poetry,
Form: Couplet
Willow
A tribute to Joyce Kilmer I sit under this willow tree. Its pendulous branchlets swaying In concinnity around me, spontaneously bestirring a soliloquized pleasantry: No measured words and rhymes I write Could ever describe your beauty Because fools never get it right and” Poems are made by fools like me” imperfect, conventional lines. “But only God can make a tree” creation of perfect design. So I write down beneath this tree these feeble lines of poetry.
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Categories: kilmer, nature,
Form: Verse

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