Broad-minded
...My name doesn’t tell if I’ve got
Some meaningly posh coat of arms
I didn’t contribute to national lot
But maybe I did for the arts
I don’t criticize politicians
It must be the easiest job
Yet ...
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Categories:
yob, humorous, philosophy, political,
Form: Rhyme
Beasting
...It’s a difficult thing to understand,
Maybe takes some explaining,
But Beasting was a tradition,
Just a part of military training
Helping turn the raw recruit
Into one who understands
The n...
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Categories:
yob, anti bullying, bullying, work,
Form: Rhyme
Decorum
...You sat still at Miss Binnington’s
No swinging legs or kicking feet
Back pressed against chair back
Bottom firmly held to chair seat.
Children seen but not heard
A rule very seldom broken
Only ...
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Categories:
yob, childhood, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Wildlife 36
...Wildlife 36
A snowy white swanish young cob
Was considered a bit of a yob
He was so full of zest
He fell out of the nest
And his sister said "you're such a knob!"...
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Categories:
yob, bird, funny,
Form: Limerick
Judge Me Poet
...abandoned because I got a man banned
through responding to his grotesque brand
of uncanny comments insulting and bland
label me a yob because of ground I stand
standing up to a problem is just ...
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Categories:
yob, poets,
Form: Rhyme
The Crowded Pavement
...In this hurried, crowded, chaotic world
Many broken and lonely people are hurled
Silent thoughts invade their mind
Loveless, Unwanted they trail behind.
Can you hear the silence in this crowde...
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Categories:
yob, people,
Form: Rhyme
Reverse Word Poetry - God - Dog
...REVERSE WORD POETRY
To use the vernacular, god!',
my friend shouts at a yob.
He's not alone he has his dog,
the yob was his young boy.
Friend Dave was setting up a trap,
we were o...
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Categories:
yob, father son, friend, poems,
Form: I do not know?
Only We Know
...Only we know...
The stranger did not start the fight today.
New man in town, come looking for a job,
he prayed for God to take the gang away.
He’d find some digs, a place to plan and stay...
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Categories:
yob, anti bullying,
Form: Villanelle
Life's But a Stage
...Life's a cruel stage
for the sensitive soul
who must suffer in whole,
the jeers and the babble
of an ignorant rabble
Who, paying their
tuppence for cheap
balcony seats,
spew their bile,
wo...
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Categories:
yob, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Shadow
...Shadow
From vantage morning of my dreams;
I counted my length of days,
Heretofore on earth, rooted the strength of manly yob,
In pursuance of transient dreams,
The ebbing shadow...
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Categories:
yob, fantasy
Form: Free verse