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Yuppie Poems - Poems about Yuppie

A Kid Among Age-Comers

...He's up and coming, yuppie humming, 
Down and puppy low.
He's high and drying, dancefloor-flying,
Under miles of snow.
We love him, we love him, we want him to be fine,
Want him hanging from his...
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Categories: yuppie, city, courage, growing up,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberCorporate Speak

...When the president said ‘misunderestimated’
Everybody wondered, ‘was he ever educated’
But I forgive him that, for the thing that makes me ‘EEK!’
Is the mad proliferation of Corporation Speak…

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Categories: yuppie, language,
Form: Rhyme



Yuppie

...They say 
"The older you get
the more childish you become"
Yuppie! How nice!
It will be a new beginning 
for a fresh dumb...
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Categories: yuppie, fun,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAnimal Footles

...Thanks for not saying I'm an Alpaca!

Llama
Calmer

Kitten will only eat Kit-E cat

Fussy
Pussy

Tiddle's uses her litter tray

Tiddle's 
Piddles

Eeyor...
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Categories: yuppie, animal, humorous,
Form: Footle

Premium MemberIt's All the Rage

...Too much PC too
Many interpretations
Nothing but problems

I'm with stupid, but...
There are no stupid people
There is ignorance

Rage against culture
Not stupid just misguided
And misdirec...
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Categories: yuppie, age, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Haiku



Acrostic Footle

...FOOTLE POETRY

Footle
Order
Often
Takes time
Learning
Excerpt

Placing
Onset
Edging
Tactful
Reading
Yuppie

Contest: Footle-Me
Sponsored By: Brian Strand
Date Created: 12/16/2020...
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Categories: yuppie, poetry,
Form: Footle

Premium MemberZebra Crossing

...a zee
bra yuppie
crossing x-tends
desired walkways
enhancing valued
futures underlying
gainfully tried
honorable sacrifices
involving resources
jockied quickly
knowing people
leach ones
m...
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Categories: yuppie, business, city, dream,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMy Best Friend

...He was born in the bathroom
One tiny white ball of cotton
Baby breath like a perfume
Little black nose like a button

Swiftly, he was a growing puppy
Blundering limbs making haste
Almost the w...
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Categories: yuppie, cry, dog, emotions, friend,
Form: Rhyme

Silent But Deadly

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Sniper hid vapors
tend to always bullet strike
with stealth air carrier accuracy

Silent noxious assault
pierced the nostrils
with oxy painful inhalation,
of the non-ventilated thir...
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Categories: yuppie, fun, humorous, satire, word
Form: Light Verse

Premium Member60's Child

...60's Child

I found myself at the tail end of childhood then,
Coming out of its long sunny sleep;
The days and nights of pleasures, terrors, wonders
Strung together to make up the pitted landsca...
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Categories: yuppie, age, america, youth,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAs My Town Goes Sinking

...As My Town Goes Sinking

My town goes sinking, sinking
Beneath a sea of shopping malls
As I sit and ponder, drinking
Staring into merchandise stalls.

Each mall boasts two dozen stores for sho...
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Categories: yuppie, anger, community, emotions, time,
Form: Rhyme

I Should Have Been a Beat Poet

...I should have been a Beat Poet

I should have been a Beat Poet
Like Ginsberg or Ferlinghetti
They were good but not that great
Oh, maybe I'm being petty.

I could have driven across the States...
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Categories: yuppie, career, humor, satire,
Form: Couplet

Caffeine Addict

...This very morning when I awoke, I thought someone had played a joke. I checked the pot, it was bone dry. I checked the pantry and started to cry - no coffee!

So, I got dressed for work...real slow...
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Categories: yuppie, humorous, imagery,
Form: Rhyme

Beggars of California

...Beggars of California 

With their tattoos and their piercings, I don’t give money to beggars in California.                              Up on the Haight with his honey, not really in need, this b...
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Categories: yuppie, allegory, city, education, environment,
Form: Ghazal

Roughneck

...You marketing types love us.
Blue all over, fear of nothing a man can throw,
Quick to bow down when the boss come by...
not the one paying me...., 
but the one who rules my roost. 

Day breaks ...
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Categories: yuppie, fun, work,
Form: Free verse

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