Short Vey Poems

What can she say

  if he prays for  
 
    a lay? -- Oy, vey!...

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oy vey
never
try

to milk a
golden
cow

idol's
 idle
  utters...

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What is this feeling?
This strange, awkward sensation?
Oy vey! I'm in love!...

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Charles Villiers Stanford
a composer who struck a chord
Vey much akin tk Brahms
in opus& musical psalms...

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to say i
loved her
biblically

means i
parted 
her red

sea but
didn't
need

to
use
a fig

leaf...

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Sports writer ,Henry Grantland Rice
also,wrote poems,which was nice .
Vey famous afore nation-wide tv
a dual-gifted talent ,of ol' Tennesee...

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Sports writer ,Henry Grantland Rice
also,wrote poems,which was nice .
Vey famous afore nation-wide tv
a dual-gifted talent ,of ol' Tennesee...

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There was a dumb pig from Kauai
Who had a huge stye in his eye
While using a hatchet 
He started to scratch it
Now the swine has an eye in his sty!...

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Passover’s only one short week away
Though we have yet to start cleaning, oy vey!
   Smiley faces wear no frowns  
   We’ll turn our house upside down
Shake and bake matzo in boxes ~ Ole!...

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Beginning to doubt
This guy with the funny snout
Is he waiting for a lick
before he throws that scraggly stick
been here all day
Don't this guy know how to play
OY VEY, HaPpY HoLiDaYS, Anyway !...

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Listen to poem:

The number one bank in our State ad,
A line of customers who were mad,
to have shorter lines be seen,
by using the bank machine,
ad ends, staff reviewed, just being bad.

(Auwe!--Oy vey!?--YIKES!)

Date: 08/26/2019...

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The hayride proved fun for all I must say

Until I jumped up and bellowed, “Oy Vey!”

     Other couples’ heads poked out

     Just to learn what made me shout

(I’d sat upon a needle in the hay.)





*For Dana’Lynn’s “Needle in the Hay” contest...

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In the White House where folks stayed, they say
Fauci - sleepy - had gone the wrong way.
He lay down by a rump -
that of Donald J. Trump,
yelping, “You are not Bill Gates! Oy vey!”


Nov. 23, 2020 for Joseph May's Out On A Lim Poetry Contest...

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Pen, they say, is mightier than the sword
Ocean of emotions lashes at the shores of mind
Enticing one’s vey soul into the land of fantasy 
Magic and mystery woven into whimsical words.


~Contest: Bite Size Poem #14
Sponsor: Line Gauthier...

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the joy of a toy
  twirly, squishy, bounce, bounce
   the toy joy
better than a boy
  or a boy toy
   or a cat nip toy
    shiny, squeaky, bounce pounce 
a girls toy
  how sweet, a sweet to eat, eat
   and what will the poor thing do then
    the joy toy
        oy 

a tribute to a pisher e.e. cummings...

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The Tyrant

How cruel is love:

That it might entice a statue ,
Then forsake it when it move.

That it might crown a man Emperor, 
Then banish him from his kingdom.

That it might deliver a man from the gallows,
Only to have him murdered by its own hand.

Oy vey, Of all the tyrants known to man,
There is none crueller then unrequited love....

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       Soft red and white checkered tablecloth.
         Round table, metal chairs with cushions.
            Under a dashing, dark green umbrella.
              Chocolate sundaes with nuts, add fresh whipped cream.
                   This is my delicious, vey special summer dream!

                                  4/5/2021
                                     ~3~
     
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...and with apologies to Tony Bennett.

I smelled a fart in San Francisco,
It wafted out across the Bay.
An Oakland breeze just blew it back,
A tourist gasped, "A gas attack!"
A drag queen shrieked, "Oy vey!
That's gross!", and swooned away.
Who cut that fart in San Francisco
The CIA is keen to see.
If they find out it's from North Korea or Iran,
It could be the fart that started World War III....

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Think I'll pack my bags today
And pick a place vey far away
I'll tel no one I am moving on
will you notice that I am gone
Wonder will you remember me at all
or are you locked inside your own wall
Where no one exists except for you
Once I was there, yes we were two
Am I nothing now but a lost memory
just a story told of you and me
When did you forget I was there
tell me, did you ever love me dear


carolann crowley  7/18/2012...

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