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Yankee Poems - Poems about Yankee

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DAYS OF OLD 40's
...We had; The face behind the mask and Chattanooga choo, choo. A boy and his dog and Bill and Coo. We three and Gaslight. The black cat and Dead of the night. A ......Read the rest...
Categories: yankee, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member I Wish I Had A Penny
...This is not a poetry contest entry . I wish I had a penny for every time That I was wrong, I could be a politician counting pennies all day long. Oh! I wish I had a penny, every time Tayl......Read the rest...
Categories: yankee, analogy, fun, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Yankee Doodle
... In 1755 a British army medical surgeon Richard Shuckburgh, while campaigning in Rensselaer New York, penned the nursery rhyme Yankee Doodle. This was used to mock the Colonists by the......Read the rest...
Categories: yankee, independence day, military, nursery
Form: Rhyme
Lou Gehrig's ease
...We've heard of ALS as "Lou Gehrig's disease" Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis a cause to pray on our knees But Lou Gehrig felt he was "the luckiest man on earth"* the Yankees, and his wife the ......Read the rest...
Categories: yankee, appreciation, baseball, dedication, life,
Form: Rhyme
Adolescent infatuations never consummated
...Adolescent infatuations...never consummated Greetings reader from a cross between an aging seventy inch long (ringing ding dong) haired pencil necked geek and a Norwegian bachelor farmer wannabe; ......Read the rest...
Categories: yankee, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse



Leaving a book incompletely read tantamount to being sacrilegious
...Preface: On February 4, 1861, the seven states that had seceded by this point convened and created the Confederate States of America under the leadership of Jefferson Davis. Just under two m......Read the rest...
Categories: yankee, absence, america, anxiety, baptism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Southern Living
...I moved South from Seattle's rainy haze, To Atlanta's charm in the early 80s days. They called me a Yankee, a foreign soul, But Southern living soon took its toll. Sightseeing spots, reminders ......Read the rest...
Categories: yankee, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ol Yankees
... We ol’ Yankees ain’t much for technology much preferring handed down ingenuity. Like the cheapest way to rid your house free of mice is to keep your cat starvin’ hungry. As for savin’ money, ......Read the rest...
Categories: yankee, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Slang Footles for Male Names: Part 3
... Always Prepared Ready Freddy The Untamed Feral Ferril What’s in Frankie’s Pockets? Frankie’s hankies Patriotic Guy Yankee Frankie Of the highest Quality Fraser’s ra......Read the rest...
Categories: yankee, boy,
Form: Footle
Premium Member horoscopes and hot air
...My Astrologer, ‘Sex and Love’ horoscope, for Halloween, is grim and on-trend for me. (Libra) “Get ready to take some chill-time - give yourself the space to recover. People pleasing is out, boundari......Read the rest...
Categories: yankee, autumn, fashion, nonsense, school,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Whittle
...He sits silent with the old man; as intrigued watching his gnarled hands whittle away at the pine twig, as he is with tales about Gran, and their life on the wild moorlands. As he now and then......Read the rest...
Categories: yankee, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Once Pawn a Time
...Once pawn a time... About four plus weeks after frazzling fiasco from friggin fraudsters white knight still mourns swindled money Lynne Costello Senior Civil Investigator (assistant to Philade......Read the rest...
Categories: yankee, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Yankee Doodle In King Joe B's Court
...Feathered hat, fife and drum Doodle's entrance a smash Though in the air, all around him float sweet marijuana and hash 'Young lady,' begins Doodle - O, the naivete! 'I'm a he ......Read the rest...
Categories: yankee, crazy, identity, nostalgia, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Yankee Poodle
...Yankee Doodle bought a poodle But it was a donkey Went back to the pet shop And said this ’ere dog is wonky Fetch the donkey from my car Get a poodle handy That’s no poodle in my......Read the rest...
Categories: yankee, dog, song,
Form: Rhyme
I Ask Myself a Rhetorical Question Regarding
...I ask myself a rhetorical question regarding... the durability, longevity, and tenacity of *****sapiens, after screaming headlines report one after another atrocity. How did the human species ma......Read the rest...
Categories: yankee, africa, america, anger, april,
Form: Free verse

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