Thon Poems - Poems about Thon

An antelope at the zoo’s gala Stuck both horns right through a koala He skewered an ox And one Arctic fox They now call him Vlad the impala...

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April 3 TRUMP The President of the United States Republican Leader of the Free world Uber ales nations Muttering insanities Preposterous Nonsensical tweets April 3 Putin Post Modern Leader Uniting all the Russians Triumphant against all enemies Including the Great Satan Nevertheless always living in fear...

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April 2 Walls Trump wants a wall Between America and Mexico A wall against the southern hordes A wall based on fear and hate A wall to make America safe A wall to make America great again And yet I wonder Will his wall fall Like the Berlin wall And the great wall And all the other walls They all failed All of them Walls divide...

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2007 How Much I Despise You 2007 How Much I Despise You 2017 How Much I despise You Following 2016 the second worst year ever Will 2018 be any better ? And what we have suffered The darkness settles on the land Like a curse on the land As our mad demented senile dotard king wannabe Struts about the worlds stage...

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Thank God For Angela Every day I wake up And see you there I thank God That he had the wisdom To send you to me To save me By bringing you into my life You are the sunshine That lights up the day You are reason I get up in the morning And you are reason I exist Without you I am nothing But dust...

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April 11 3 Am Nightmares 3 am The bewitching hour When the wild things come out And play And torture you With endless wild accusations And nightmarish visions As I toss and turn Trying to escape I look over at my wife And as always Repeat the mantra Everything will be alright And the wild things are banished To the dark corners of my mind And I recover my...

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April 11 3 Am Nightmares April 12 Zombie Apocalypse Zombies to the right of me Zombies to the left of me Zombies ahead of me Zombies behind me Everywhere zombies galore The end of the world had become And the zombification of the world had begun Zombies to the right of me Zombies to the left of me Zombies ahead of me Zombies behind me No...

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April 7 Watching Cats Hunt Early morning Watching two white cats Hunting a white dove The cats hunt in pairs Tracking the bird The bird flies away Safe for now And I think about the cats And the hunt goes on Such is life And the fate of cats And birds April 19 Cats Cats I often wonder about Cats What do they think of us It...

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April 6 Wagontire, Oregon 1973 In 1973, I went on a road trip With my father We left Berkeley to go to Yakima Where my father had a summer cabin He was a college professor And had July and August off And we spent the summers Every summer from 1968 to 1978 Our whole dysfunctional family Our annual road trip to hell...

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April 2 Walls Trump wants a wall Between America and Mexico A wall against the southern hordes A wall based on fear and hate A wall to make America safe A wall to make America great again And yet I wonder Will his wall fall Like the Berlin wall And the great wall And all the other walls They all failed All of them Walls divide us Walls make us Into...

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Poems by Jake Cosmos Aller For Poem a Thon 2017 JOHN (“JAKE”) COSMOS ALLER is a April 1 Berkeley California Growing up in the 60’s In Berkeley almost 50 years ago I think back At those turbulent times Those crazy wonderful times Berkeley is a wonderful place In many ways Stuck forever in 1967 A true time travel experience Every time I go back And...

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It's a Jan A Thon Dancing in our Soup Dripping out of spoons Burning up the group Raking in the Wins Shaking in our Skins Must be the Queendom Of United Kingdom!...

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Hi folks Welcome to the Poet-a-thon for charity Yes we know, starvation, disease, floods, wars All terrible events in the world However, tonight we fight a new cause Yes a new cause more terrible, more sad (some may have sad “sadder”) more .... well just more Worse than global warming even, worse than climate change Yes, there are poets out there who can...

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