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Yonkers Poems - Poems about Yonkers


Premium Member Age Gaps
...Cranky crusty Codgers Skeptical scornfully scowls Youthful yearning Yonkers Heartful happily howls Spurned spiteful Spinsters Graying gracelessly grumbles Marvelous merry Maidens ......

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Categories: yonkers, age, old, youth,
Form: Rhyme
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... ***** Being ignored, drives me toally bonkers. Like being on a lonely street, at midnight in Yonkers When a poet here, I take time to heartilty cheer, No repl......

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Categories: yonkers, poets,
Form: Couplet



Cruel Summer
...Hunched over the vat of used motor oil, Scotty and Osman watched intently as a black ant struggled to escape its unforgiving viscosity. The doomed insect slowly sank and the boys, cousins, regarded e......

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Categories: yonkers, death, memory, summer, youth,
Form: Prose Poetry
Loud Drum
...There once was a thin young man from Yonkers Who with his drum drove his neighbors bonkers. Gave it beat With more heat Till fish landed on him from near lockers.......

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Categories: yonkers, humor,
Form: Limerick
A Miscarriage Baby
...A Miscarriage Baby I use to work in Yonkers With this nice lady In this store At the bottom of this hill This beautiful lady about to take a vacation A friendly Hispanic woman Of great ......

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Categories: yonkers, bereavement, , cute,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Sid Caesar
... He was born in Yonkers, just north of New York City. This man grew up to be funny and witty. While working in a luncheonette owned by his family, with the art of patois, Sid displayed ......

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Categories: yonkers, obituary, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member New York Poets 800th Poem
... Considering all the people there, it’s a big state! Many members from New York have talent that's great. Poets hail from Syracuse, Rochester, Albany, Plattsburgh, Scarsdale, White Plains, or......

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Categories: yonkers, dedication, on writing and
Form: Rhyme
Strong Echoes
...In today’s highlight of moral issues: leadership of clergy in the Catholic Church; seen as a major backlog of urgent need that came out as the topic of our guest speaker. She’s Dr Monica Applewhite,......

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Categories: yonkers, faith, hope, life, sad,
Form: Narrative
Big John
...Big John, what a man Fishin' rod in his left, a gun in the other hand, Smart as a whip, I'd bet he's got one of those, too Don't piss him off, He'd as well kill, as cough, And in his mighty To......

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Categories: yonkers, adventure, friendship, nature, parody,
Form: Bio

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