Best Belles Poems

Unruffled beauties
       float in boats rowed by their beaus
    
            one warm Georgia day.

        With fragile paper-white hands,
they...

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Bowled over completely
By the sight of flowers
Beside the babbling brook
Breathtakingly adorned
Balancing on tiptoes
Before my eyes, poised like
Bolshoi ballerinas.

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Contest: Pleiades- B
Sponsor: Kim  Merryman
Placed 2nd
15th August, 2016...

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“belles lettres” 

It’s a slow drifting
off, that moment 
before you dive 
into the dark

you surface 
to find a boat 
surrounded by 
shining pearls,

Styx, a mirror 
reflecting 
otherworldly stars
hypnotic, 

you trail
your long 
pale slender fingers 
in the forbidden water,

it is cool to the touch
a new fever...

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When it comes to making friends from the South, it's like everybody's welcomed in their
communities. But when it comes to being with a bunch of attractive Southern belles, that's
so awesome. she's got plenty of style and a lot of beauty to have blossomed. A Southern
belle...

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The Jackal's line of demarcation ye souls' furlough for interim...
Today, cockcrows perturb in a gala thrice for thee quiescent stay,
God's Park of Ephemera, sashays the daggled the minder harks,
a chest not in to rest, of dais edicts, cudgels so contagious; 
haughty wheels peddle rashly between...

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Cadmium yellow belles
Cymbals clash pale orange specks
Sun bathes in praise...

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These rugby-playing girls - 
or women, should I say? -
are so rough and ready,
dashing down that field,
conveying that oval ball
from this end to that,
gritting their teeth.
Oh, what might! Such a sight!

Or do I not prefer
to behold delicate white frocks
on ladies whose fairylike fingertips
hold their tiny...

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beauties
unruffled
on a steamy day
float in boats rowed by their beaus 
white silken hands folding their fans at sunset
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(To be sang to the tune of "Jingle Bells")

Single Belles. Single Belles.
Single all the way...
We'll remain as so til the time is right,
Not available today - hey!
Single Belles. Single Belles.
Single all the way.
We're very content the way we are.
From our choice we'll not be swayed.

Even...

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Nonpareil les belles-lettres spellbinds

Adherence regarding credo
to finish reading arbitrarily
self selected book beginning
to end silent promise made
otherwise, I experience guilt
analogous violating unwritten

law, said private oath binds me
against challenging non binding
unspoken promise additionally
never flipping thru pages reading
conclusion, viz aforementioned
unspoken vow never abrogated,

no contest when authored material
finds yours...

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Ring in the spring,
The bluebells bob
As gentle breezes blow. 
We breathe a sigh
As we know now
There’s no more winter snow. 

The vibrant hue
Against the green
Bathes hillsides regal blue. 
Announcing to
The countryside
That summer will ensue....

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Yes  peahens they were if you asked me
Parading around looking for men
Husband seekers actually
Ruffled frilly dresses
Seeking out the rich
Georgia’s finest
Southern Belles
Prissy
Charm...

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On the 'silver spoon' side of town,
fortunes show in flashy mansions,
and some folks like to hoard their wealth;
others used theirs for expansions.
This old bloke Reg lived on his own,
his booty’s stored in cash and land.
Reg never married in the past,
though - now had a marriage...

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up&around 
     creeps virginia
midst boston's ivy

where
    oregon grapes
             mahonia

above
  idaho grass 
          blue-eyed 
  ...

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