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At The Drop Of A Hat Poems - Poems about At The Drop Of A Hat

I leave buying food at the market to the spouse
...I leave buying food at the market to the spouse... one helluva comparative humdinger savvy shopper, who can rattle off the best buy for most any given item, at the drop of a hat analogous to ......

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Categories: at the drop of a hat, adventure, angel, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I'm Just Being Me
... I may be just a hat but from way up here I can see that she has her clothes hung up like little soldiers ready for service at the drop of a hat As I tilt my linen peonies and squint in her c......

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Categories: at the drop of a hat, analogy, appreciation, imagery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member three faeries bring joy to the meadow
...three faeries with beautifully veined transparent wings arrived at midnight Not unlike Pan who had been there before, they brought happiness light. Their mission was to add some levity and joy to t......

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Categories: at the drop of a hat, fairy,
Form: Rhyme
Helpless Hopeful Hanker
...I just want to bless All that's around me with no stress Even those within me, with love and ease For peace and prosperity I have made decrees A life is pretty stale, somewhat sad, so static S......

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Categories: at the drop of a hat, blessing, desire, endurance, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member And that my dear is a poem
... Many do not love my direct way They shy from the truth many just loved my looks in my happy youth some liked the achievements i had and wanted in on my fame And some thought what I did fo......

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Categories: at the drop of a hat, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Last Organ Grinder
...Down the faithful brick stones he goes with his favorite monkey Spiff through the alley where twilight glints soon turn from pinkish to gold beneath a yawning sun. Bringing forth a new day,......

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Categories: at the drop of a hat, appreciation, music,
Form: Haibun
Advertising This and That
...Advertising this, And advertising that, At the drop of a hat, Is making cats fat, And enabling wallets to fold flat.......

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Categories: at the drop of a hat, addiction, age, analogy, autumn,
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member An Idiomatic Chicken Tale
...An Idiomatic Chicken Tale Don’t count your chickens before they hatch, you may bite off more than you can chew. But if you do count, make sure you have a bird in the hand rather than tw......

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Categories: at the drop of a hat, bird,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Satisfied Cat
...Satisfied cat can sleep at the drop of a hat. She can squeeze herself into those, this and that. We find her asleep this morning in a goldfish bowl. She is snoring away, like a fisherman without a......

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Categories: at the drop of a hat, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Wrong Side of Heaven
...welcome to my reality who’s reality of their self falters at the drop of a hat the sudden tantalizing change is surely overwhelming it’s at the point where I’ve been on the moon so long the l......

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Categories: at the drop of a hat, deep, imagination, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Now That We Are Here
...The 'snap' of the moment When we realise, this is it I am living my life In these seconds, that slip by I have memories I treasure But memories Are being formed By my children With me in the......

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Categories: at the drop of a hat, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If Robots Like We
...If robots, like we could walk, talk, and breath make love and drink Cabernet wine if they could remember last night and December then what about you and I? If robots could dance and bet on th......

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Categories: at the drop of a hat, allegory, allusion, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Son
...Father and son never saw eye to eye, too much jealousy on the patriarch side He constantly put his son down for everything he did, competing incessantly One day the son had enough and walked away,......

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Categories: at the drop of a hat, appreciation, son,
Form: Haibun
Johnny
...My baby brother gone, just like that, He passed away, at the drop of a hat. He was healthy; just 51 years old, A great guy; a heart made of gold. No warning s......

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Categories: at the drop of a hat, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cartoon Parade
...Imagine if at the drop of a hat, You could become a cartoon Sylvester the Cat, Chasing poor little Tweety Bird, Perhaps it sounds absurd Or be Fred Flintstone or his friend, Let’s just pretend......

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Categories: at the drop of a hat, beauty,
Form: Free verse

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