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Best Cut The Mustard Poems

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Premium Member Nibbles McCheesy
Nibbles McCheesy was ever so speedy
And scampering all round the house
Trojan the tabby was getting quite crabby
For failing to capture that mouse

That cowardy custard could...

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Categories: cut the mustard, animal, cat,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member That's What They Say
They say...

Still waters run deep...
Then why are there so many shallow people?

When it rains it pours...
Usually the day after I wash my truck.

Walk softly and...

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Categories: cut the mustard, america, cheer up,
Form: Free verse
Time Will Tell
7/28/17


My soul I will never sell
Even if I got to go through hell
Time will tell
If I'll excel
And propel
Doing poorly or swell
Wherever I dwell
Crooked or parallel...

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Categories: cut the mustard, dark, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Just a Reminder
What does it feel like, do you feel the same
Do you still have that seductive style
Do you still have a soft, sweet tender young body
Do...

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Categories: cut the mustard, love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Jester Runs For a Royal Seat
The Jester tumbled in
with his fancy footwork
into the castle's great hall,
raising his arms, waving to all.

He's dressed from head to toe
in humorous multi-coloured attire
and red...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cut the mustard, humor, political,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Proof
We are the days that we’ve become. 
moments dripping gifted from
the lounging clocks in rolling melted sightings, 
given by the gifted madness of a soulmate’s...

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Categories: cut the mustard, allegory, america, computer, crazy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Decrepit and Mangy Old Folks
I live in an adult lifestyle community
So what exactly does that mean?
It means most residents are old farts like me
Though there's some under sixty it...

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Categories: cut the mustard, life, old, old,
Form: Quatrain
Dark Alliance
DARK ALLIANCE

The alchemists of old sought transformation into gold
But today in an alliance with some modern necromancers
They have gained their fondest wish, created riches now...

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Categories: cut the mustard, abuse, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
Not Quite Forgotten Habits
It used to be that most of us chatted, 
Over the fence with our neighbor for free,
Or even climbed over for a cup of tea.

Now...

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Categories: cut the mustard, analogy, appreciation, blessing, care,
Form: Romanticism
Custard
Today I had some custard
But it didn't cut the mustard
Though I really thought that it would be the best.
Guess you can't make an assumption
Based on...

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Categories: cut the mustard, food,
Form: Rhyme
Making Up My Own Mind
Morning approaches out of another sleepless night
Anticipation gathers around my bedposts come daylight

Decisions made in the dark,they fade away so fast
Was it a dream of...

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© Deb Wilson  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cut the mustard, confusion, introspection, life
Form: Couplet
Decline of Rich Men
The decline of rich Men. 

 The numbers of American millionaires have declined
I read this as a news item and was amused. 

I know of...

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Categories: cut the mustard, funny, old, old,
Form: Couplet
Retire To Florida
Retire To Florida?

By Elton Camp

It’s for old persons with leathery skin
The refuge of every sort of has been

Doctors who can’t hear a heart beat
Butchers who...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cut the mustard, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs