Short Yore Poems

Grasses of yore:-
at my foot....

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The Kmart of yore
Stands proudly in the plaza
Casting a shadow...

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Atop fallen leaves,
Compiled from the trees of yore:
A yellow leaf cries....

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dawn sun warms our soul
seals the fresh gashes of yore
hope for the wounded...

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White-bearded man puffed...
And found the scent of  his yore,
In my purple youth...

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Lombada painted&poetized
well deserved her high fives
Famed as a troubadour
years ago in days of yore...

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George Orwell famed for Animal Farm
loved gardening to keep him calm
So he wrote his satire 1984
the year passed,& became days of yore...

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Who is rich? --- 
He who is content with his lot
   Thus, the Sages of yore
Accept the wages of honest labor
   No need to hunger for more...

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Yep, caught me one on this shore
touchin' me and mine and yore
reticence. What's it about
that makes ya wanna shout
your disappearance silently?...

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Yes, we were forced into national pride,
Singing the anthem at assembly time,
Little patriots to the core,
God saved something in times of yore!...

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A friendly poet RavinNVRmore
Writes poetry that you can’t ignore
A Poe fan I wonder
A phrase she did plunder
From the gaunt and ominous bird of yore...

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Younderward younker yap
Yore Yorkshire yield yeager york-felow

Yellow-yam yesterdays
Yonder yellowfin
Yak yiddle
Yammer yack yells
Yard yew yellows...

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The Yuletide Season is with us once more
The season of love and the tales of yore
Warm good wishes
Gentle hugs and kisses
Love and hugs is forever assured...

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Won’t slip from

Mind’s eye of yore

Won’t let foil

The cull I’ll make

Live for truth

Not for figment

Just leave the past behind


09.05.17...

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My grandparents talk 
about things that happened yesterday 
but do they really mean yesterday?
 or should they say 
that's from the past 
it's history 
yesteryear or
 yore?...

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It's another year, hope it's a good one
And it brings you happiness and good fortune
With friends galore
Like days of yore
With winter weather a whole lot shorter...

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Idolized by pharaohs, monarchs and kings;
Bird of the wetlands, marshes and swamps.
Interesting forager with long bill and stilted long legs;
Sacred icon of the dynasties of yore....

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Long long ago in the days of yore
Lived a gorgeous filly, made young studs roar
Was scantily clad
Delighting each lad
Also makes this old duffer writhe on the floor...

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.. you daydream nights
on a seamless shore,
spinning yarns of yore,
'neath borderless horizons
of the ocean skies,
till love no longer 
knows your heart,
till sight disowns
your eyes.....

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Oh the heady days of youth
        Fondly now recalled
Evoke such sweet reverie
        Comeliness enthralled
Reflections were kind
        In a looking glass of yore
   Memories enshrined...

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Every word that eye right;
Carries sum cents; when ewe here it with
Yore inner I. 
Maybe this bee N Impossible task;
Four if eye M knot write.
Their wood be know reason two meat them with yore mind....

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Fireworks up in the sky I see
Bold colors divided up tee
Winds colored by shadows up high
Memories of yore scribbling scores
Scintillating wraiths of anchors
Stalling, swaddling tight on my thigh....

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“Are you expecting?”, expecting what I say
A courier package or perhaps a brand new sleigh 
A sleigh Santa wishes for
Fly like in days of yore
Spend time with the naughties romping in the hay...

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Long long ago in the days of yore
Lived a gorgeous filly, made the young studs roar
Was scantily clad
Delighting each lad
Just writing about her makes me writhe on the floor


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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an heart bleeding the tomorrow
traveled the past of days yore
the silence of dreams bringing 
awakening of future smiles
and an eternity of possibility
as two birds flying the sky
know better the span of my reach....

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