Story
...I'm just writing my story
Leaving out all the glory
I never tore them; yet the pages and spine are all but broken
Its letters are scattered, yet still the words form a concise omen
Would you read...
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Categories:
yeoman, angst, deep, introspection, pain,
Form: Free verse
Quiet Happy
...A whisper gently in the night
One that sweetly lingers into daylight
And into days, weeks, months, and years
Quietly walking in faith and extirpating all fears
Silently working like a Yeo...
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Categories:
yeoman, beautiful, blessing, destiny, dream,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
All I Need
...
Little I ask, my wants are few,
I only wish a roof and home -
a simple one this man will do
that I may call my own.
To within its walls live and age
with a memoir to fill my page.
Pl...
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Categories:
yeoman, life, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Mr Fritz and Black Sheep
...MR. FRITZ AND BLACK SHEEP :
Arrival at the clinic,
We're here to fix things.
Where's the the dentist?
This dude tooth's aching,
Thus Black Sheep;
He's not fit for some days.
He returned fro...
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Categories:
yeoman, inspirational,
Form: Lyric
Allitabecedimericks
...An amateur archer, Antoine,
Bodaciously bragged beastly brawn.
Crushed counterparts,
Dispatched deadly darts,
Electrified everyone!
Fly fisherman Fred...
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Categories:
yeoman, silly,
Form: Abecedarian
Poetrysoup Politically Correct Witches and More Wood
...Yeoman throw
On another
Cigarette to
Fuel the
Fire
Yeoman
Throw on
Another
Cigarette
To fuel
The fire
Yoe
Man E
Throw ...
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Categories:
yeoman, literature,
Form: Elegy
Witches and More Wood
...Yeoman throw
On another
******
Fuel the
Fire
Yeoman
Throw on
Another
******
To fuel
The fire
Yoe
Man E
Throw ...
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Categories:
yeoman, firework,
Form: Metrical Tale
Transitional Poetry
...What gets possibly gained from poetic encounters?
A friendship sets sail though mast’s shadows can’t merge
more than sheets in the wind that two sailors might set in defiance
of oceans, whose trem...
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Categories:
yeoman, love,
Form: Rhyme
An Aged Yeoman
...I mounted to a mount,
By viewing the astonishing scenery,
I mounted on a slippery hill,
Hearing voices that is a peril....
I saw an aged yeoman working
On his filed,
Albeit his hard effor...
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Categories:
yeoman, cute love,
Form: Narrative
Sunny Hours
...I only tell of sunny hours...
I,Gnomon,
Sundial yeoman;
Suntanned sentinel
Stand watch,
Shedding tears for unrequited love.
My cooling shadow stalks sun;
Caresses with timely sunscreen
Sweet...
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Categories:
yeoman, love, sun, time,
Form: Personification
Homecoming
...Down on the pier, the midmorning bright,
Thronged wives, husbands, lovers,
And sons, friends, young daughters,
All eyes perusing the grand and gray ship
In long-simmered hope of glimpsing one fac...
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Categories:
yeoman, home, marriage, military,
Form: Free verse
Sunless In North Shields
...SUNLESS IN NORTH SHIELDS
It’s painful when the sea wind
Drives rain into the eyes
At the end of Yeoman Street,
Where I waited so long for that girl in the yellow raincoat,
Who nev...
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Categories:
yeoman, rain, teenage, wind,
Form: Imagism
Blossom Rising
...On the deaths of Major John Cairns Bartholomew, of Wadworthshire, and a much loved Devizes tree...
Beneath a grey and monumental sky
In wild confetti clouds that dance in air
The blossom falls;...
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Categories:
yeoman, death, farewell, mystery, nature,
Form: Epitaph
Humbelright
......for my yeoman brothers and sisters
Beneath the ancient ewe, my limbs grow
strong. Ever watchful of the bayn-scurry
crow.These fields I wander know my
footfall well, for thee- I sharpen arrow ...
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Categories:
yeoman, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Curse of the Twenty Two
...Curse of the twenty two
Ole Con he was a Yeoman at bloody El Alamein,
And he lifted out the mines where lead fell like bloody rain,
Driven sort of crazy, with death buzzing all around,
An...
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Categories:
yeoman, adventure,
Form: Ballad
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