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Yawp Poems - Poems about Yawp

Premium Member Stop Thinking!
... The 2nd Trump Presidency Begins To express my own Whitmanesque "barbaric yawp", constrained by internal (and external) barriers, mentally constipated, I merely mutter, feel pressures steadil......

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Categories: yawp, age, angst, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 'Forward Brave Souls' Victims of Ambition's Merciless Will
...“Up men to your posts! Don’t forget today that you are from old Virginia.” – General George Pickett Beneath Gettysburg's sun a merciless blaze Stood Pickett with his face etched......

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Categories: yawp, death, history, slavery, violence,
Form: Ballad



The Yawp
...See the recumbent lion, it yawns, mouth stretched open a wide silence – he is not tired, just philosophically bored. It is a yawp as much as the startled jaw of a newborn kitten is a visible......

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Categories: yawp, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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: yawp, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
Torch Lake Iii - Fishing For Time
...Our boat is first to slice The green snake skin of Clam Lake This Saturday morning in May Heading east to the mouth of Grass River Where angry Pike still hunt from shallows Before the Milfoil ......

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Categories: yawp, father son, fish, fishing,
Form: Free verse



Good As Undone
...Eyes lock with stealth both move faced they stand hands raise tension builds forward then lunge stomp yawp Bash... high missed five......

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Categories: yawp, sometimes,
Form: Light Verse
Benumbed Jane
...Benumbed Jane! "he'd never give a plain Jane like you a second's thought" (but hellishly reign his godly wife) O Jane! Be little prettier Be more wiser Crucify your benumbed senses Resur......

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Categories: yawp, 12th grade, divorce, husband,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Tossed On the Tide - a Rattling Rhyme
...On an azure expanse without prospect or sail the debris of my ship rent asunder from gale as I float, the last salt to endeavor my breath my mates sent to Davey Jone's ......

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Categories: yawp, adventure, appreciation, lost, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member And Home Again
...Beneath the yawning, azure skies of Earth, We left our seed to wend the Sea of Suns, And prove the binding mettle of our worth, Beyond the sullied world we'd left......

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Categories: yawp, adventure, fantasy, future, humanity,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Of Captains and Cradles
...Oh, My Dear Walter, how your words have slayed Humbled me, broken me, molded, remade To taste of your world, see above or below it Wit of a wordsmith, wry pith of a poet ......

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Categories: yawp, appreciation, history, poetry, poets,
Form: Couplet
Painting In Vertigo
...Somedays, I wake up and my mind is a buzz with the low hum of drunk bees. Other days it's the homicidal scree of the Purge siren meets the absurdity of Happy Gilmore. Those days, the mood stabilizers......

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Categories: yawp, angst, anxiety, art,
Form: Free verse
O Let Me Play
...He said to me,"Ma'am I don't really run, I have no friends under the sun!" She said to me,"Ma'am I know not to skip, My friends are sailing in another ship" They said to me,"Ma'am we know not to ......

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Categories: yawp, 12th grade, child,
Form: Light Verse
Haunted Dregs
...Crossing the dark miry ford, thwarted by the skull colored fog Ill feelings of awe fall upon me, as ......

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Categories: yawp, culture, dark, death, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Values In Life 2
...Without values life may whop And you cannot even yawp As the destiny may strop A valueless person nonstop. If your values from life lop It is zilch and make you fop – Fop – a man with concern a......

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Categories: yawp, philosophy,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Captains and Cradles - For Walt Whitman
...* There is one person I would bring back in a heartbeat, and that's my favorite human being of all-time, Walt Whitman - he literally changed my life with his poetry, and brought true beauty and joy t......

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Categories: yawp, art, history, poetry, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme

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