Life in the Country
...Someone is wielding an axe or a hammer
It’s the only other noise beside a crow’s yammer
Dogs look down the hill, interested for a sec
Woods are thick, I see no pick or peck
Above the fog I hear...
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Categories:
yammer, life,
Form: Rhyme
How Time Has Gone
...My, how wamburdsly vett skitterelees
yammer in modduskwom, sutty slivers,
every pop muddleskiddly of red-orange,
in zakrum, zezzledop, vixaddamoth blur!
To see maxfluppinnes' purpled ...
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Categories:
yammer, beautiful, color, mystery, nature,
Form: Vogon Poetry
Vision
...She took her own neck
into her own hands
and tugged and howled silently.
Have I seen this before?
Am I watching a film
or hearing a dream?
No scream, or invisible, inaudible
scheme performed...
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Categories:
yammer, body, death, depression, mental
Form: Free verse
Yearn
..."Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning."
- Joha...
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Categories:
yammer, angst, health, longing,
Form: Alliteration
Four Limericks Re Marital Trials and Tribulations
...I
When a spat leaves you blue-faced and chokin'
This advice may keep love's bond unbroken:
Don't go angry to bed,
Listen to what's being said
And not merely to what's being spoken.
II
A man ...
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Categories:
yammer, humor, husband, marriage, wife,
Form: Limerick
A Dog Got Into My Brain
...The moon was big and lit-up,
so of course, some local dog
was barking like crazy.
I got up, it was half past the tic of time
and way deeper than any sunken face.
I was a little wasted;
I ge...
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Categories:
yammer, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Big Or Little Hammer
...Who’s been struck with even little hammer
And his lips failed to curses yammer:
“Son-of-a-” not part of grammar:
For a blow, mortal, control stammer?
Struck with a big or a little hammer!
One...
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Categories:
yammer, bullying, confusion, cry, violence,
Form: Rhyme
A 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:
yammer, word play, words, yellow,
Form: Free verse
The Sad State of the Union
...In this so-called modern world today
There's lots of cause for apprehension,
And all the crazy stuff that's going on,
Like the hubbub up in Washington,
Where no one's getting nothing done,
Is on...
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Categories:
yammer, humor, political,
Form: Light Verse
Hymn
...Jesus was a carpenter,
he worked with saw and hammer.
He pounded, banged, for 20 years,
it was an awful clamor.
Then he spent three years a'preachin',
he never had a stammer.
At last they ...
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Categories:
yammer, bible, christian, death, history,
Form: Lyric
Welcome 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:
yammer, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
Soup Tools
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yammer
stammer
grammar
glamour
Do folks think you yammer, stammer much?
Add the soup tools grammar glamour touch!
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(For the 'Bite Size Poem no.36' Poetry Contest
Spon...
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Categories:
yammer, fun,
Form: Tyburn
Things To Do When You'Re Bored
...Achieve greatness by running a race.
Break sound barriers- just go to outer space!
Climb a mountain to get a good workout.
Deliver a speech- you'll probably have to shout...
Earn some money b...
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Categories:
yammer, fun,
Form: Abecedarian
What Kind of Friend Are You
...Buried in my own sorrow I do not care about you
Or your problems or your family or your mother-in-law today.
It is all about me right now, this second.
I need nurturing this time. My ears are shut...
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Categories:
yammer, friend,
Form: Free verse
In Honor of the Earth
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The globe doth spin, as we walk perpendicular.
I find, this fact, indeed this most peculiar.
Stammering, stuttering we yammer about fixing the earth!
Yet read the poetry, full of...
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Categories:
yammer, humanity, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
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