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Dialect Poems - Poems about Dialect

Dialect Poems - Examples of all types of poems about dialect to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for dialect.
Premium Member DIALECT RECITATION poetry reading
Aye 'ee is fierce and hale. Four mile to work,across the vale; No slommakin' slattern 'ee, Okkard as an itching flea. Eee'd fetch hosses to boss's yard, Garmed with mud,as thick as lard, Cla'holt of 'em wiv a rope, On is own,allus...Read the rest...
Categories: dialect, word play,
Form: Bio
Premium Member The Diversity Of Dialect
Anything of substance now silent, no nuance in bony dialect; Floundering in a devoid ocean we are starving for fluid language; Razor thin cuts painful and shallow banal waters lack diversity; Uninspired without diversity collaboration’s fallen silent; Sand bar bellows...Read the rest...
Categories: dialect, earth, emotions, humanity, language,
Form: Sestina



Premium Member Bow To Me
A genie's lamp cannot compare, To smoke awoken from my breath, Slithered out in ancient swear, Unshackled life from sudden death. Hear me now in brazen bond, Bow to me, before now still, From truth ye once had to abscond, In fevers,...Read the rest...
Categories: dialect, allegory, confusion, crazy, dance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dialect the Form
DIALECT recited in an English dialect & by definitio n is best heard than read-please go to the above youtube link here is the words inmy local vernacular English Aye 'ee is fierce and hale. Four mile to work,across the...Read the rest...
Categories: dialect, family, poetry,
Form: Bio
The Watergaw
The Watergaw by Hugh MacDiarmid loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch One wet forenight in the sheep-shearing season I saw the uncanniest thing— a watergaw with its wavering light shining beyond the wild downpour of rain ... and I thought of the...Read the rest...
Categories: dialect, death, death of a
Form: Rhyme



How To Kill a Cow
We use to know Howt o put thinggs down. People gowin roundd, Their lives tied behindt em by a spyne of brown strings. You know we use to know howter kill cows Wid the back af wharrever, hacking instrument hong...Read the rest...
Categories: dialect, animal, dark, death, food,
Form: Free verse
When the Language Merge
I Walk into Bobby Department Store And I yelled where are the Jamaican and Barbadian at? This might sound a little weird to most, however, it’s that time of the year, when all the languages and the dialect...Read the rest...
Categories: dialect, addiction, anger, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Spiritual Redundancy
Patterns reveal natural Space redundancy Voiced an internal muse appositioning Pattern/Space Choice As Rhythms unveil Time's spirited enculturing multi-regenerational interdependent synergetic annual EarthTribe reviving bi-hemispheric repetition Of Light Spirited Patterns rooted in Natural In/OutSide Dark NonDualistic Space....Read the rest...
Categories: dialect, health, integrity, muse, music,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Autumn Gold In Somerset Dialect
Dozy with Cider The tavern was quiet but for old farmer John, when the Kings rider strode in demanding a bed, He ordered his ale and sat next to the old sage, “Where be all the villagers?” he said. Farmer...Read the rest...
Categories: dialect, birth, culture, drink, england,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Scribbler From Southwark
There is an old scribbler from Southwark* Who’s poetry undoubtedly sucks. She couldn’t pronounce ‘poem’, ‘Cause she rhymed it with ‘home’. Ain’t posh enough, innit, so she’s stuck! ...Read the rest...
Categories: dialect, language, poets,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member My Choice Dialect
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE BOY Aye 'ee is fierce and hale. Four mile to work,across the vale; No slommakin' slattern 'ee, Okkard as an itching flea. Eee'd fetch hosses to boss's yard, Garmed with mud,as thick as lard, Cla'holt of 'em wiv a rope, On is...Read the rest...
Categories: dialect, word play,
Form: Verse
Premium Member 'jack the Daw' In Lancashire Dialect
'JACK the DAW' (In Lancashire Dialect) Struttin’ and Puffin’ his big chest out, The streets all clear, when he’s about. Inside all’doors, waitin’ for’ thump Families quake and animals jump! Mam goes to’ door, money in hand Shakin’ as she...Read the rest...
Categories: dialect, history, inspirational love,
Form: Free verse
Robert Burns Translation: Comin Thro the Rye
Comin Thro the Rye by Robert Burns modern English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Oh, Jenny's all wet, poor body, Jenny's seldom dry; She's draggin' all her petticoats Comin' through the rye. Comin' through the rye, poor body, Comin' through the...Read the rest...
Categories: dialect, body, desire, kiss, love,
Form: Verse
Dialect Poet
Inside me, an angel almost pure, inside me one almost mild...Read the rest...
Categories: dialect, allusion, analogy, creation, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Perplexities of Brexit From a Cockney Point of View
Sovrinty’s a grand ole gent, But sovrinty don’t pay the rent. I got six kids’ moufs to feed. Sqeezin’ stones don’t make ‘em bleed. Theresa gal sure went and blew it, But oo blimmin’ else is there to ’ do...Read the rest...
Categories: dialect, anxiety, humorous, political,
Form: Burlesque

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