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Yates Poems - Poems about Yates

The Late Richard Franklin
...It was a day that classic Doctor Who fans would certainly hate. We said goodbye to the man who starred as Captain Mike Yates. His death was even more sad because he died on Christmas Day. Millions......

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Categories: yates, death, england,
Form: Rhyme
THE GRADIENT
...Darwin's animal is writing poetry, Nietzsche's Ubermensch is learning idolatry. Cockroach won't leave early, He will wait for the bread crumbs dearly. The embezzler is talking riches, His ni......

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Categories: yates, betrayal, corruption, creation, peace,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Maybe One Hundred and Ten
...Grandpa elephant needs his nap really bad The party was excellent! Isn’t that right, Dad? He realizes they are speaking to him and he smiles. His attention is far far away, down many country miles......

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Categories: yates, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Ballad of Freddie and Flo
...This is a story about Freddie and Flo, They lived in Baltimore a long time ago. It might be called a May-September romance And shows how love can blossom if it's given a chance. Flo taught Sunday......

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Categories: yates, humor,
Form: Ballad
A Thought On Poetry
...I wonder how a poet thinks? Bound by circumstance or random occurrences, as they rise and fall like changes in weather, lost in the turmoil of cloud cover and threatening wind storms? If I we......

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Categories: yates, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member Voice of Choice
...Middle of the crossroads, I’ve found myself in To my left stand the poets, holding their pens On my right are religions, kneeling behind a cross In front sit the atheists, debating......

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Categories: yates, allegory, allusion, confusion, creation,
Form: Rhyme
The Western Stars
...An old black and white movie took me back to my childhood when cowboys rode the range Major Adams and Flint McCullough leading the Wagon Train, and Hopalong's ten-gallon white hat rode the b......

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Categories: yates, analogy, stars, , western,
Form: Rhyme
Greeting Angels
...Greeting Angels Caylee, are you listening? I just wanted you to know that we prayed that you’d get justice but I guess it won’t be so. And I wondered if you met Tesslynn when you reached t......

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Categories: yates, abuse, angel, child abuse,
Form: Rhyme
Odd Story
...Man with cufflinks Woman with fine jewels Rubies resting on booby's, Sick stories and inverted crosses Orgies and they all yell more fish! Secret Societies taking over nations, Yates conspir......

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Categories: yates, allegory, blue, dark, deep,
Form: Couplet
Cellar Dwellers
...Silencing the voices of discontent You're fired message sent Yates was the first to go Evidence of Collusion she did show The great investigation of collusion Now they beg for its conclusion......

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Categories: yates, political,
Form: Limerick
Steers
...Did you ever want to ride on the range wear a tin star be a cowboy? no? strange I did. I wanted to rustle some beef take them across the Rio.. shoot it out with Lee Van Cleef. I wanted ......

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Categories: yates, longing, old,
Form: Rhyme
Autumn Royal
...Autumn Rhyme by Sabrina Oliver I woke up this morning like amber, Feeling the depths of my fire burn. Exalting cold, dark shadows that linger, Waiting for the clock, tic-toc, let it turn, And......

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Categories: yates, autumn,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Prayers With Confession
...Prayers with Confusion After the sixth day god had created the heavens, earth and man. The seventh day, god lay. He looks up as he rest his head and what did he see? Nothing just darkness and ......

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Categories: yates, bible, caregiving, creation, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Five Fraught Faces
...Buried beneath blood-shot baby doll eyes where drowns dark truths dwelling empty despair, finds five fraught faces from false idol lies clinging cold-coffins caused by cruel affair; Saddled by......

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Categories: yates, death, scary,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Out of Sight
...Elderly Ed Yates had trouble seeing but he kept on driving unperceiving. Alas one day he slipped and he and his car flipped. The mess he left was beyond conceiving.......

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Categories: yates, age, car,
Form: Limerick

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