Best Chastushka Poems

I saw your other flowers sprout,

so bringing charm, I put down roots.

but hating me, you yanked me out.

You fool, I'll just bring more recruits!...

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He never stopped preaching
About the color of my hair
So I kept right on bleaching
and now there's nothing there 











Contest: Bad hair day
Sponsored by Rick Parise
Form: Chastushka...

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Velvet fell from the SKY ON a Boston day by the bay
Cotton caressed thy lips gentility so that you might sigh
While you tried to convince me you and I could beg to fly 
Suddenly uncertainty and fearfulness drew night but I never knew why

Other people...

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Hair there, why cry, pull it out ..try!
Pretty YES on your head but nose?
God that’s gross you’re not a guy
Pull it out you’re indisposed!...

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pReMaTuRe AgInG
an older woman and a younger man
are a trix in between
because as his love blooms
he sees himself aging.
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penned on august 31, 2014!...

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He should have gifted something else
the gifts brought her an instant fame
as she saved those on her 'blue dress',
Zippergate was the scandal name!




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Placement: 6th;(March 2012)

Contest:Chaustushka Form-Russian Poetry 

Sponsor:Gwendolen Rix

By:Kash poet...

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If I were you
 And you were me
 i knew your sorrows 
 And you felt pains of me.

 All roots of misunderstanding 
 Live in the heart of  unknowns 
 We  don't know well about each other 
 So misconceptions lead the...

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Not us they said.  You cannot make us shelter in!
Memorial Day they ran to the beaches for fun.
We do not buy into your story, Dr. Fin.
Covid 19 now killing them off one by one....

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A long time he has hung on
It's about time he gets the boot
The rest would be glad to see him gone
They'll team up to say good-bye to Newt




Chastushka Form-Russian Poetry contest of Gwen Rix 
With visiting Judge Andrea Dietrich co-judging
7th Place Winner...

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Fall arrives today, still clad in green,
Clear skies of impossible blue
Presage the riot of color to come;
Hot reds and golds, yet bitter cold - whom to sue?...

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(This is a true story from 2001, when I let my
hair grow back to dark, and I fooled a few people
who thought the wig was still my own hair but with 
a different shade of blonde!)

Growing roots meant bad hair each day;
bought a wig to...

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Z Z Top and Cousin It took the right approach
     Dark sun glasses and beards detract from scraggly hair
Next time my motley hairdo meets with reproach
     Combing forward I’ll consider, sparing the Nair



*For Rick's "Bad Hair Day"...

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He was an All Star Athlete,
A potential Hall of Famer.
He could have made a fortune, if,
His hair was not like Kramer's....

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A stupid fly tried to swim
In my glass filled with a beer
But finally the beast made it to the rim
And when flying away it showed me its rear...

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Well, it was a Hardy try my love....

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