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Yoko Poems - Poems about Yoko

Premium Member'Give Peace a Chance' 55 Years Later

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  ~ To the tune of John Lennon and Yoko 
     Ono's 1969 song, 'All We are Saying is
            Give Peace a Chance' ~

 
     Diversity and equity
       Nothing but green energy
    Elect...
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Categories: yoko, humor, satire, song,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberTHE KILLING FIELDS

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This horrendous Cambodian war-time story,
Ends with Cambodian glory,
Journalists forged a strong friendship within hard cruel times,
It is one of the best movies ever and all so true,
These two...
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Categories: yoko, political,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Sea of Roses

...“Nobody`s life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear and we all just do our best.” Yoko Ono
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Categories: yoko, feelings, heart, life, love,
Form: Rhyme

Today, I Mourn slain Beatle John Lennon

...Today, I Mourn slain Beatle John Lennon
assassinated at 10:50 PM,
on December 8, 1980
forty four years later to date
outside The Dakota Apartment,
(also known as the Dakota Apartments),
located...
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Categories: yoko, anger, anniversary, appreciation, death,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLennon and Napalm

...The Beatles split up so mystically -pronto
the Vietnam spine came back together
some branded the blame into Yoko
some tied a wreath of thorns on the reds.

Imagine time moving queerly along-
Le...
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Categories: yoko, song, war,
Form: Free verse



City Life

...Talking to people
Circles of fear
Straight lines and queers
The conscious mirror drops narrator's tears
Never forgetting the bird with transparent  wings
Zombies walking in and out of their mout...
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Categories: yoko, heaven, people, raven, smart,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLife is a Song

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*Written using 25 Beatles hit song titles. Revised a bit for 2024

It's been a hard day's night, my love. Tonight, I want to hold your hand and keep you close. Beloved one please, <...
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Categories: yoko, appreciation, music, romantic love,
Form: Narrative

Classic Rock

...Classic rock 
Played so softly
Zooming
Grooving

Got it playing
So quietly 
Though it’s kind
Of metal 
Rocking

But It brings back
Cool memories 
And I love
My music

But all those co...
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Categories: yoko, business,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRandom Reflections and Questions

...Car 54, where are you?
      Is a horse still a horse, of course?
   Who today considers Denace a 'menace?'
      Do you yet play 'The Glad Game,' Pollyanna?

   Kryptonite get you in the end, S...
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Categories: yoko, celebrity, nostalgia, peace, remember,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWhen I Was Young 1970s

...I saw one journey end and another begin
I saw my world changed and in a spin 

I saw another end - the end of the band
I saw John and Yoko hand in hand

I saw commandos in the air armed and...
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Categories: yoko, childhood, history, world,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberA New Mythology

...There is a new mythology emerging, 
Howling from the hind end of the pack, 
Scorching the composted leavings 
Of established orthodoxy as a pillar of flame 
Showing the way for true rock & roller...
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Categories: yoko, allegory, mythology,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberThey'Re Coming To Take Us Away

...~ Just thinkin' tonight ~

They're coming to take us away
  Ha, ha, ho, ho, tee, hee
The Woke Ones; ha, ha, hee, hee
  They're coming for you and me

Fluid sexual preferences, ho, ho
  Today ...
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Categories: yoko, america, fate, gender, race,
Form: Rhyme

Above Us Only 80 Shades of Sky

...Imagine

Above us only Sky 

Below us waging war

Mother didn't want to know

Craving a woman who would

Reminds me of my father

It's in the eye's and the nose

New York , Hamburger

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Categories: yoko, music,
Form: Free verse

John Lennon 80 Years Old

...On the 9th of October 1940, a legend was born
He had two children one named Julian and one named Sean
A lady called yoko she was his life
In 1969 she became his wife

In his early life he lived ...
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Categories: yoko, music,
Form: Rhyme

Reading Material

...My husband reads biographies
But I’ll take fiction, if you please.
He likes to learn about the past;
His tomes would bore me, really fast.

Yet having finished my last book,
I figured I would t...
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Categories: yoko, books,
Form: Rhyme

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