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Yaws Poems - Poems about Yaws

A Little Break

...Intermission gives permission
For a little break
To use the loo or grab a brew
Or stretch, for muscles’ sake.

It helps to know, when at a show,
Just when that time will be
So you can wait to ...
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Categories: yaws, time,
Form: Rhyme

Matthew O Harris Ease A FAKE Irishman

...Matthew O' Harris Ease A "FAKE" Irishman

Saint Patrick's Day, or
Feast of Saint Patrick
Lá Fhéile Pádraig
invoke even non Irish to proclaim
Éirinn go Brách
translated as "Ireland Forever."

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Categories: yaws, adventure, america, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Romance Ripple

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Written: February 19, 2024
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Loving with a lucent locus is Lissom,
mooring a mystic's sibylline moves
as Felicity finds me, I float f...
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Categories: yaws, analogy, appreciation, beauty, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMagnification

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Written: November 24, 2023
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Close-up screening will show the flaws.
Under microscope, watch the draws.
With fresh style—mi...
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Categories: yaws, analogy, miracle, science,
Form: Quatern

Shooting Sixty Four Rapids In the Time Stream

...Shooting sixty four rapids in the time stream

Powder milk biscuits helped yours truly, 
a Norwegian farmer wannabe feel bold
enough to weather inclement
steady rain which swirled, pooled,
and ...
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Categories: yaws, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Matthew O' Harris Ease a Fake Irishman

...Matthew O' Harris Ease A "FAKE" Irishman

Since adopting the guise
of Norwegian bachelor farmer,
I may as well fabricate genetic stock
lock, and barrel linkedin to Celtic legend.

Sentimentali...
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Categories: yaws, adventure, america, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme

Dead Beat

...Dead grass yaws
Summer heat yawns
Hot fetid breath
On the back of my neck
A predator on the run
As you scream at the sun
And I can't live without 
All the questions and doubt
But they're kill...
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Categories: yaws, anger, dark, hurt,
Form: Free verse

Black Cats

...See the black cat run, jump, slink away, a shadow within shadows and a life force of mystery. A predator in composite, a compact killer, a butcher for life, the apex of its design, all built of littl...
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Categories: yaws, adventure, allegory, allusion, angel,
Form: Free verse

Lobster Rain

...A eulogy on the car radio:
he was a good friend to all.

It begins to rain.

On the road an opossum family,
bodies strewn
according to size and age,
some pancaked, some
playing dead forever....
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Categories: yaws, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Matthew O Harris Ease a Fake Irishman

...Matthew O' Harris Ease A "FAKE" Irishman

Saint Patrick's Day, or
Feast of Saint Patrick
Lá Fhéile Pádraig
invoke even non Irish to proclaim
Éirinn go Brách
translated as "Ireland Forever."

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Categories: yaws, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Our Ship of Life

...The unpredictable yaw of rolling seas,
as in life pummels us from side to side 
randomly dictating its capricious ways 
lacking logic the tossing grips us and seeks to take our lives    

Death,...
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Categories: yaws, life, perspective,
Form: Didactic

Lobster Rain

...A good friend died
I don't know who
A eulogy on the car radio said
He was a good friend to all
It begins to rain
On the road a raccoon family
Bodies strewn
According to size and age
The strip...
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Categories: yaws, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Lobster Rain

...A good friend died
I don't know who
A eulogy on the car radio said
"He was a good friend to all"

It begins to rain
On the road a raccoon family
Bodies strewn
According to size and age
The s...
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Categories: yaws, poetry,
Form: Blank verse

Spoiler Forewarning Alert

...Spoiler Forewarning Alert!

This averred title announced straight
away so lingering fans
(hoop fully letting me abbreviate)
a short cut so ye
can up and evacuate,
while metered time,

not ye...
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Categories: yaws, character, father, hilarious, humorous,
Form: Free verse

Shooting Rapids In the Time Stream

...Steady rain swirled, pooled,
and eddied around rolled
up pant legs skinny ankles, which
immediately felt cold
before undertow willingly

steadily, and nimbly pulled this former
ace swimmer int...
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Categories: yaws, allusion, father, heaven, humorous,
Form: Free verse

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