Akimbo Poems - Poems about Akimbo

... been coughing lately out of breath with regrets asthma? emphysema? bully pest upsets my arms akimbo at foul passing nimbo suffering succotash, I need a cigarette! ......

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...Wise man say, “No laugh up sleeve, while wear heart on same. For misconstrued may be, lose heart's desire, passion's flame.” Happy dentist say, when at chair, always looking down in mouth, “If t......

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...Manners are the party fancy — Petit goldleaf on the melting pudding, A sticking cream now on your fingers, Immovable for hours. Manners like a lady, Her morning bonnet pinned, Perching, tilti......

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...Sad surprise awaits Juliette. She walks into her house to find new rescue, Hugo, ripping the living room apart. Bad doggie! Very, very bad doggie! ......

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...Some time ago, when we were free to do;        ten I was, or twelve? I walked along a misty lane to school the etched patterns of ferns and trees   on my window when I awoke          now echoed ......

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...Peter in the summer morning sun his cool smile shaded by shadows run his voice as soothing as coffee’s scent tell me he wasn’t heaven sent Peter of Malibu moss and Spanish rose his lips like l......

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... and does a spot on rendition of Marcel Marceau engaging in intercourse with a prostitute. *"Arms akimbo" is an adjective or adverb that means having your hands on your hips with your elbows turned outward. For example, "She stood there akimbo". The word "akimbo" comes from the Middle English phrase in kenebowe, which means "at a sharp angle". The word was first recorded between 1375 and 1425, and may come from the Old Norse phrase i keng boginn, whic......

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... 'Whatcha say we spin a jig?' she said from 'neath my tongue her almond bittersweet the queried tang ... so naught but few, the moments 'til my belfry's bell was rung and thus wit......

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... feathers … white, wafting wildly but singed … not from heaven, too near the sun but the fiery dungeon, deep … angelic and sinless, they came to save me to retrieve the hot brand of id tha......

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... A shaggy dog espied a graceful cat She arched her back, he fell flat on his jowls, she pivoted - nose up His paws akimbo, Shaggy arfed Wait, dear cat, I can explain tha......

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...Wearing dinosaur boots blundering through the city lights of a brain high on low energy. Being a concrete Tarzan bending only to crumble at the waist while within me a jungly place rains rip......

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...Whence I did take my chisel to stone Carved I a damsel in rock She bore the finest curves As men bespoke of in droves Each part was etched to my delight Till the earliest hours of light Her e......

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...the gray green frogs that often silently squat as still as bricks and blocks around the pear-shaped garden pond are frisky restless they plop in and out of the weedy water boasting bigly as......

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...Lay down noiselessly, as long as you stay still and breathe lightly, then they will ignore you. You can smile under your eyelids, you can pretend that they have legs and wear business suits. ......

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...She stood there almost unnoticed One component of a musical layer Until her riff came and showed She was a mean saxophone player Her controlled notes lazily flowing Around that club room and b......

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