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
Boo, On No Replies To Comments
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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
Sid Caesar
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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
New York Poets 800th Poem
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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