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
Corporate 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
Animal 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
It'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
Zebra 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
My 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
...
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
60'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
As 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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