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Yanks Poems - Poems about Yanks

Premium Member Brief Ode to the Babe
... Boyhood pranks gave way to thanks for the New York Yanks and all those franks ......

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Categories: yanks, baseball, celebrity, food, tribute,
Form: Ode
Premium Member The Mule Who Didn't Like School
... I got this stubborn little mule who doesn't like school Each time I give him a carrot he starts to drool ! Each time I try and teach it he looks at me like I'm an idiot ! I tell......

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Categories: yanks, animal,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Canadian Content
...From the mid-1950's thenceforth to the mid-seventies in the Great White North, over the course of many moons, there came from this country some really great tunes. For those of us young at hear......

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Categories: yanks, history, music,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Royal Ocelot Island
... Raft branch buoyed in canopy crossroad Ocelot pillow paws rail rainforest rotunda Yataghan claws trail trunk, track cathode Assailant arouse pounces, stiff tail rudder L......

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Categories: yanks, animal, beautiful, character, dark,
Form: Acrostic
Physcal Therapy
...Chiropractor not the only one who yanks and pulls......

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Categories: yanks, angst,
Form: Haiku



Modern Lumberjack Sonnet
...Clad in Kevlar on some forest land leased, big saw in his hand, engine idling, gets put to the tree and shatters the peace, works it just right, and the tree is falling. Adjusts his visor, then l......

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Categories: yanks, appreciation, imagery, men, mountains,
Form: Sonnet
AWAY
...Sitting on a bench Of your own making Feeding pigeons Who are there for taking ...sustenance Walking down a worn path Where others have left a mark Though you hear a voice To come up yonder......

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Categories: yanks, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Silly Old Duffer
...Silly old duffer, this Canadian dude His name is Jester Jack Ellison Those guys in white coats try real hard To keep him sedated and bedridden Don't dare let him let loose in public Fo......

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Categories: yanks, funny love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Seriously
...Deadly, Gravity is, Yanks us back to earth Thrust down in our graves Wiggle and wriggle out! Lighten up! Get away! Fly high! Whew! Close shave!......

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Categories: yanks, courage, earth, power, space,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Silly Old Duffer
...Silly old duffer, this Canadian dude His name is Jester Jack Ellison Those guys in white coats try real hard To keep him sedated and bedridden Don't dare let him loose in public For fe......

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Categories: yanks, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Larry, Moe and Curly
...Helter-skelter, upper-downer, Bigger smaller, richer poorer Bitter sweeter, kinder meaner Sifter opener, thicker thinner. Meek or dumb, pinky and thumb Top or bottom, height and fathom. Head......

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Categories: yanks, hilarious,
Form: Alliteration
Part 2: As English As Sausage, Egg, Chips and Peas
...Then the guns roared!! and it was hard to distinguish the Hush from the roaring; the two seemed almost Indistinguishable. Was it the roaring, I wondered, or was it the hush that was The more ......

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Categories: yanks, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Halloween
...We did not dress up for Halloween In England, when I was of that age. Movies revealed what fun it was; the sheer joy in that, and other things American kids had, which we did not; comic book......

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Categories: yanks, halloween, memory,
Form: Free verse
Not Quite Gi Blues
...Elvis has left the building. West Berlin, a significant place Where life was lived at a frantic pace. Me and Old Elvis together through the night In those days when I saw things In stark black o......

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Categories: yanks, imagination, military, music, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Courier Run - West Berlin
...A VW Beetle An unloaded thirty eight In the passenger seat And out through the gate A briefcase of secrets Chained to the wrist Memorized instructions From an unwritten list. In the event ......

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Categories: yanks, military, nostalgia, soldier,
Form: Rhyme

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