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Best Boogie Poems

Below are the all-time best Boogie poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of boogie poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Boogie Woogie Man
Watch out for da Boogie Woogie man
he's comin ta get ya if he can
Ooh smooth moves soft lips
he's got dem electric hips
A twirling dynamo who...

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Categories: boogie, character, dance,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Parking Lot Boogie
I’m so sad mom
That I’m missing the chance
To be with you on your birthday
and to watch you dance

Yet your spirit I admire
You’ll celebrate with style
With...

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Categories: boogie, beautiful, birthday, dance, fun,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Cora's Clothesline
What softness in silence amidst the cacophony of a spin cycle world war.
Lying next to your glow in sleep's stillness, careful of your bandaged hand.
Watching...

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Categories: boogie, desire, heart, innocence, june,
Form: Narrative
Guardian Angels
Goodnight my dear boy and what's that you say?
You want me to chase the bad monsters away?
Well, I'll tell you a tale that may just...

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Categories: boogie, fantasy, love, son,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stars Light, They Shine Bright
STARS LIGHT, THEY SHINE BRIGHT

Glowing gems that dress the night,
I yearn to know your brightness art
blinking quick, blinking slow
my running thoughts you make them go...

From...

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Categories: boogie, beautiful, family, inspirational, life,
Form: Rhyme



Where Shadows Refuse To Dance
Locking the door is useless,
for he has a key...

Will that sliver of light
become a wider slice tonight,
or not?

Bed sheet covers are but flimsy barriers,
easily thrown...

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Categories: boogie, abuse, childhood, moon, social,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Search For Love Is Never Black Or White
The search for love is never black or white.
I'm just looking for a pretty young thing.
It's human nature to desire what is right.
Forget Billie Jean,...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boogie, love, music, tribute,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Storms
Fierce wind fans aghast! energy release
Somber clouds aggregate longing deep cry. . .
Rocket to train slam-bang sounds reign the skies!
Acid bitter sky tears aged litter...

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Categories: boogie, dark, environment, heaven, hope,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Rusty Playground
I bent my mind around her ideas
became engrossed by playful words
Yet the thoughts were so horrific
my tears flowed and eyes were blurred 
Sandbox baby playing
laughter...

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Categories: boogie, angst, child, child abuse,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Refrigerator Boogies
I was dancing and prancing 
And singing whooped Dee Dee
Not realizing I was not alone
Until he opened his shirt to me

He threw out the mayo,...

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Categories: boogie, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Personification
The Spry Metropolis
Tower, buzz and scurry
Oh great resilient city
Ahoy!
Alive.  Scramble bustle earth's
 ethnicities
On lurid quests--
A pendulum of tantric turmoil and
Blessed harmony

Quixotic city--brash,
Sangfroid merotomized and
Chrematistic--metro nonpareil.

See a...

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© David Hart  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boogie, adventure,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Dance
Do the electric slide
  Dare to boogie woogie
  Discover calypso
  Dazzle with jitter bug
  Dip to the beat and glide
 ...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boogie, dance,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Sunlit
in the mellow morn
a revelry of roses
pervasive heat, grapes

glossy trees tremble
day's marching into the gold
butterfly frenzy

the day star twinkles
entering doors and windows
housewarming party

a straw hat...

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Categories: boogie, day, flower, happiness, home,
Form: Haiku
Dancing Dame In the Frame
Today... 
       Let me swirl, let me sway,
           ...

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Categories: boogie, art, dance, girl,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member The Red Balloon of My Childhood
The red balloon of my childhood
      chasing rainbows
    the rush of ozone
  hairspray
wait…
that’s my sister’s parade
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Categories: boogie, childhood, sea,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs