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Ys Poems - Poems about Ys


Premium MemberOne X and Two Ys

...I was a double yoke baby
one X and two Ys
Obvious from birth 
From the hair on my pubic 
To the size of my girth...
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Categories: ys, baby, fate, funny, humor,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSand Clock

...As we speak, time goes by, tick ticking
           |   Sand is trickling down, slowly   |
	   |      Life goes on, seconds are      |
           |            turning to minutes          |
	   |  ...
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Categories: ys, time,
Form: Concrete



Ice Skating

...At Lake Mission Bell, after the winter scared it solid, kids carve short stories in broken, confused cursive into the ice with pens of sharpened steel. It’s a beautiful  thing to watch geniuses compo...
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Categories: ys, children, winter, writing,
Form: Haibun

Make the Gentle Softer

...I feel my fingertips
pierce my skin
as i try to rip my head in half
Haves or stomach knot
Grit my teeth
until i taste clot
Oh words take my dark words to
a place of light
make the gentle soft...
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Categories: ys, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Aliens

...I met two aliens once. They were poets
like me, I mean, a poet and a poetess.
Their language sounded like music, though its
gender distinction wasn't hard to notice.

She’s from the Venus, he is...
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Categories: ys, language,
Form: Rhyme



She Loves

...they sought those who's hearts they wished to break
night by night they were people under the grace of
their own beliefs and doings.
people who wished to be together in a time of their
own confus...
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Categories: ys, beautiful, feelings, happiness, integrity,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberI Never Got Math

...Math, the words strike terror in my soul.  I never got it.
         Well, maybe once, but a long time ago, before you were born.

When I returned to college after a twenty-five year hiatus,
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Categories: ys, perspective, school, self, teacher,
Form: Free verse

Insomnia

...I cried "my father" less twice
Say thrice for I called the second 
Hiding my scared face from the lightening flash

True the light is light 
Or what else could be lighter?
After weaning through...
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Categories: ys, anxiety, dark, depression, desire,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberYou Are You

...I asked when he came
what is your name?
He replied in a reflex
I am called X.
I thought he was joking
or a mad man in the making.
I smiled and asked why
you are not called XY?
There are many ...
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Categories: ys, identity, jobs,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Family of Roley Poleys

...We're a great big family of roley poleys
We'd sure make some great hockey goalies
No pucks could get past
Unless we fall on our ass
Even then we'd be just as tall with no hole-ys...
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Categories: ys, silly,
Form: Limerick

There We Are

...There we are

The journey proceed
with smiles and pain,
What we had now,will not lust forever
but luckly this destiny has unite us back together.

The floor was so sleeper,
That we coul...
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Categories: ys, addiction, africa, age, art,
Form: Bio

Adore You

...ADORE YOU
 
Am only the guy with no pac
Am only the guy,girls say i suck
Am only the guy,fellas dont put me on track
Am only the guy,Whome love has never tried.

Your only the girl on high
Yo...
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Categories: ys, best friend,
Form: Classicism

My Pa,My Ma My Parents

...My Pa,
My Ma,
My parents,
Pa a gent,
Ma his agent,
Pa spends,
Pa(ys)rent,
Ma at home,on rent!...
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Categories: ys, humor, parents,
Form: Free verse

Negative Poles

...I--      love
			                     	you	  still
				          but I 	    can see
		          That our paths		  have gone awry
		     Our parallels				   have turned to Ys
	 And I do not know					h...
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Categories: ys, goodbye, heartbroken, lost love,
Form: Concrete

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