Yack Poems

Premium MemberWhat's The Point?

...You assume I'm interested 

In all your pointless palaver 

I'd rather spend quality time

With your grandmother's cadaver 

It's yackety yackety yack

You're always burning up my ears

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Categories: yack, angst,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberCowboy Conversation With Barkeep

...Charley my wheel horse says that Jim is a yack, always jawing now.
They are both scrunchers, they nearly swallow their teeth on chow.
Jim is unsalted, but not lazy or slow, although he has trail du...
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Categories: yack, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberDisordered Sons and Fathers

...May all sacred,
but not quite omnipotent,
fathers learn this day
as we impatiently correct
our stress-disordered sons

That respect is earned,
so maybe disrespect is too
positive and negative...
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Categories: yack, age, father son, health,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum

Premium MemberA Twenty-seven Y Word Delight

...Younderward yokel yap
Yore Yorkshire yield yeager york-felow
Yak yiddle

Yammer yack yells
Yard yew yellows
Yellow-tails, Yellowhammers
Yonder yellowfin

Yellow yam yesterdays
Yuca, yogurt
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Categories: yack, word play, words, yellow,
Form: Free verse

Now I Am Clean An Enigma Machine

...I look back at the crap but I had to do that to realise the fact that they yik and they yack it’s all talk and an act that fades into the black with the actions that lack because fools chit and chat ...
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Categories: yack, hip hop, rap,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberMy Curse

...Beads of sweat roll down my back,
Feeling sick I nearly yack.
Body quivers, hands now shake
Tremors of my bodily earthquake.

Heard my name; I've been called
Stairs handrail I tightly hold.
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Categories: yack, fear,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWelcome To the Jerome Show

...It was warm in the yurt; the desert was unyieldingly hot.
There was the slight scent of ylanylang, it was sweet.
The guy wearing the yarmulke had a captive audience
He was yacking to the point of ...
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Categories: yack, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberStrive For the Best

...Endeavoring to earn a needle in a high stack. 
Such a story could be said to be pebbly. 
I'd admire to be by a moving plane slack. 
Step onward to the top mark of the mountain. 
To...
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Categories: yack, analogy, appreciation, character, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLeave My Freaking Station Alone

...I barely know how you bear it, I said to the grapefruit
Of course, true to form, she tried to smooth everything out.
I was irked because no words arrived to sooth me.
Which made her easier to eat,...
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Categories: yack, car, music,
Form: Prose Poetry

The Politics of Coronavirus

...The government is not debating,
Internally or understating,
Attacking, flipping the opposition,
Or denouncing the wealth creating.

All parties work together,
To social fairness we toast,
Main...
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Categories: yack, freedom, health, hero, inspiration,
Form: Quatrain

Hyperfocus Hocus Pocus

...The force of my thoughts is a force to report,
Attention, no Deficit, Hyperactive, no Disorder, call it slaughter
when Hyperfocus onslaughts play hocus pocus with my thoughts,
a tornado, a hurrica...
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Categories: yack, fun, nonsense, word play,
Form: Rhyme

Charmed At First Sight

...It was in Westland that I met this barmaid, 
She looked fragile,and complexed with manifestations of excellence, 
That very night I sat exactly after four seperated bevies nailing myself to eminenc...
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Categories: yack, angel,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Rushing Away and To

...Rushing away from the Devils hair hoisting heave

Rushing to Gods downy laced embrace, searching as astray and bereaved.

Rushing away from your most tenebrous night-frights.

Rushing to your c...
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Categories: yack, world,
Form: Couplet

Anne Dickins

...Anne Dickins

Anne was an endurance cyclist, 
But in 2011 she ruptured her back, 
Which meant that she did enlist, 
Cauda equine syndrome, her yack. 

A physiotherapist cool by profession, 
A...
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Categories: yack, sports, strength,
Form: Quatrain

Xylophones

...Able bodied children dead! 
Even fate grieves hopelessly 
In justified keening, lamentation, mourning.
Not one pacifier! 
Queens royally sejant...
Troops under vultures' wings,
Xylophones yack ...
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Categories: yack, abuse, bereavement, truth,
Form: ABC

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