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Yelping Poems - Poems about Yelping

Weary Is My Mind

...Weary Is My Mind

I promise, I swear, I will never, I will always
That blaring sentiment of a pattering ghost that I detest
Among the empty hollowing of her mouth and eyelids
There lies darkness...
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Categories: yelping, anger,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMixed-Up Vegetables

...I open a bag of
mixed-up vegetables
their chatter is deafening
I ask them, “What’s the ruckus?
“It’s the day of reckoning!”

I open a box of 
Hamburger Helper
hoping to quench veggies’ yelpin...
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Categories: yelping, food, humor, word play,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Memberbest to give show offs a little privacy

...the elf hung upside down from an elm tree
his round emerald eyes staring at me
tried to get attention by yelping “whee!”
some others stared with weird curiosity

I ignored him and I think that y...
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Categories: yelping, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Monorhyme

Premium Membershe recognized his despair

...Flora recognized the brownie’s despair
His depression wafted and waved in the summer air
She herself had been the victim of some sad times
The cure was to volunteer for the March of dimes

You n...
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Categories: yelping, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme

A dud acrostic - Pretty Elf Owl

...Preferring darkness, to forage and hunt, night they choose
Relatively world’s smallest owl, yelping is their unique call
Eyes highlighted, gray bill, brown birds that feign death to bluff
They are...
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Categories: yelping, bird,
Form: Acrostic



Premium MemberInternational Soul Aloft

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This beautifully designed
Spring, star-studded night.
Alive within these brave souls
Of courage, truly, a breathless,
Singular, moving delight!

I am not here to be an advocate 
Onl...
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Categories: yelping, appreciation, courage, how i
Form: Other

When Vitamin and Medication Bottles Became Plaything of the Missus

...When vitamin and medication bottles became plaything of the missus

Mental health of yours truly
heavily reliant upon one selective serotonin
reuptake inhibitor named fluoxetine (Prozac)
aside f...
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Categories: yelping, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, bereavement,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPolly Purebred Saved By Underdog

...Polly Purebred was a bit too stuck up for my taste.
But Underdog was always there, with a heave and a haste.
I remember being shocked when I saw him in color in 1964.
Picturing him in blues, not r...
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Categories: yelping, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

Easter-Wester and Resurrection

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A few hours after April 9th began
My puppies yelping woke me, helping
Me be thankful for this holiday -
Easter day! Better yet: Resurrection Day
For Easter was pagan, named for Oestre
A Persi...
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Categories: yelping, africa, america, gospel, humanity,
Form: Didactic

Premium MemberRiding a Bunny To Tinsel Town

...Riding a bunny to tinsel town
Crazy screaming and yelping and laughing around!
You are a nut bucket! You are a clown!
They were having a blast riding the rodent all the way down

Three happier f...
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Categories: yelping, 1st grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme

A Field Day Shoe Fit For Mother Goose

...A field day shoe fit for Mother Goose
  
Fruitless effort squeezing figurative juice
Pandora called triggering 
helter skelter to get loose
necessitating Bullwinkle J. Moose
to usher at yours t...
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Categories: yelping, 12th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Rhyme

What Lesser Mortals

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What lesser mortals? 

What lesser mortals
than Rimbaud
claim themselves 
a poet within 
another self, 
for there is more 
than just one self

depending on the
time a...
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Categories: yelping, imagery, muse, symbolism,
Form: Narrative

Creative Cerebral Craftiness Coaxes

...Creative cerebral craftiness coaxes...

Childhood campy chimera curtain call
subsequently hinting (based on accuweather)
the approach of blizzard squall
so burrow under quilted cover y'all
unti...
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Categories: yelping, 12th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Rhyme

Pouting and Doubting Won'T Help

...I tried not to pout about the past 
I cried out so many tears and they run dry so fast
I tried not to be very, very sensitive like what you said
I flied so many mountains and swam oceans to get he...
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Categories: yelping, angst, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: Lyric

Mother Goose Would Find Her Tail Feathers Ruffled

...Mother Goose would find her tail feathers ruffled 

Hey diddle diddle 
the cat and the fiddle
when off to see 
a crooked man and woman,
whilst cowards jumped 
over moo ving little
pair of mis...
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Categories: yelping, abuse, allusion, anger, animal,
Form: Rhyme

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