Best Decorum Poems

They suggested that I was just a toddler moving fast.
As they wine and dined, I heard all of them say
She will be sent to the best schools.
I was only three.

The living room was elegant.
Expensive furniture and beautiful walls of wallpaper with silk drapes were the...

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It’s quite clear that you misunderstood
the distinction between ‘could’ and ‘would’. 
But before we get there,
if you even still care,
is the matter of whether one should....

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You sat still at Miss Binnington’s
No swinging legs or kicking feet
Back pressed against chair back
Bottom firmly held to chair seat.
Children seen but not heard
A rule very seldom broken
Only in reply could
Any word be spoken.

The starched table cloth
Pristine white and clean
Ironed and smooth with
Not a wrinkle...

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Tennis pros are on the courts;
Fans are in the stands.
Silence, we should know, is what
The circumstance demands.

Yet there are those who can't abide
By customs of decorum.
Maybe being quiet for so long
Will simple bore 'em.

So these few clowns feel they're allowed
To yell, with vim and verve,
Some...

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Dulce Et Decorum Non Est

I am brave, I am strong, I am young, I am old,
I am eighteen.
Watch my back, my friend
I’ll watch yours.
The false bravado, the sweat, the heat, the flies,
the lies
No, Sir, I am not afraid
I’m not afraid of war, Sir, I’m not...

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Despair aught I care, in distraught 
adhere I thought. 
I fear unsure in revere, insecure of 
love immature. 
Unfair sincere demure, disdain severe 
I incur pain.
Allure in dire devour, deplore I cower 
pure desire. 
Bizarre amour to perish amiss, ignore I 
defer jealous affixed.
Temerity in...

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Moonlight harvest time
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