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Yips Poems - Poems about Yips

Premium Member another abcedarian for fun
...all automatic alligators arrive arrogantly barely behave beautifully but brazenly carousing with creepy cruddy crocodiles desperately denying despicable wiles effectively expediting expediency f......

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Categories: yips, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member The Hardest Game Is Chess
...Of all the games I’ve ever tried The hardest one, I think, is chess It leaves me dazed and half cock-eyed Each time I play ~ Why, I regress! The bishop moves diagonal The knight, he hops and......

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Categories: yips, games, international, loss, me,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Crazy Animal Poem
...Belligerent bulldog blows up balloons, bulbous and blue. Frantic frenzied flamingo flips for a flute and a flu. Persnickety porcupine prances perilous with pooh, Concerned calico cat coaxes a card......

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Categories: yips, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Heart Stopping Scream
...Heart stopping scream. Permeates the woods. A woman being murdered. I grab my flashlight. I wouldn’t do that if I were you. I glare at my friend. A woman is being killed. I am going to sav......

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Categories: yips, animal,
Form: Free verse
Ruminating Vagaries of Life May 2nd 2021
...Ruminating vagaries of life May 2nd, 2021 (conceived while in utero which loosely summarization in toto of this ordinary Joe Schmoe, who did wade nine months for a roe at mercy of obstetrician......

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Categories: yips, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



The Only Theater In Town
...A lifetime goes by just hanging about in the foyer waiting for the right movie to start. Then you realize you have been the only theater in town. Inside your play within a play angels appear ......

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Categories: yips, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Call My Howlers
...When the sun has left And you are a failure And all is lost I parade around Hoping you will look up Trying to change you from your sad self to your most fabulous philosophy If you are de......

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Categories: yips, moon,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Jealous Jumping Jaguars
...Amazing antiquated alluring alligators Bending ballistic beyond belief barbells Crushing curious crimson crucial crocodiles Delighting dark dank daring darling dwarfs Enormously elongated elves e......

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Categories: yips, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member A Frolic For Children and Puppies
...Rolling bodies, Grass stained jeans And shouts, yips, and nips Punctuate the air As the child and puppy Roll in the grass of the yard. Squirt gun fights, An unintentional bath, Painted with ......

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Categories: yips, children, innocence,
Form: Free verse
Of Last Moment and Religious Conversions
...So a lifetime went by watching the silver screen or just hanging about in the foyer waiting for the right movie to start, or fooling around on the back row groping thrilling morsels of joy, and......

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Categories: yips, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Algol
...When gazing Beta Persei, a star with many ghoulish names, be wary of a winking eye, for fluctuating flames belie its evil aims. Ancient mariners would watch with dread and chant their praye......

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Categories: yips, myth, mythology, star,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Excited Happy Coyote Yips
...Excited happy coyote yips! Howling. Yips come faster now. They have something cornered. Rabbit? Turkey? Chicken? Cat? A yipping frenzy. Dinner begins shrieking......

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Categories: yips, animal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Coyote In My Yard Today
...Coyote in my yard today Looked small and scroungy from a distance The closer she got the bigger she looked I thought of all the nights I have walked around out there Listening to coyote yips as ......

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Categories: yips, animal,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Wolf Tale Came True
...She was calm, collected, majestic and silent as the pups approached her. Secretly howling her truth but only mystically, in the ethereals, where other packs could not hear or sense her presence ......

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Categories: yips, animal,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Youthful Yellow Yips Yelling Yahoos
...Seriously serious she sternly spoke. Tyrannical truth that tells terrible tales. United underdogs urging unity. Vicious violators vetoing votes. Warning willing workers who wanted warships. ‘xtr......

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Categories: yips, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: ABC

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