Best Dowdy Poems

FILLY’S FAMOUS STORY   

Although I am pink, don’t ever think
That this filly is just frilly and silly,
For I am a thorough bred filly...

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Inspired by the painting "Highland Lassie" (1871) by Thomas Faed.

(Verse One; In introduction to Cailin)
Walkin' on the highways, searchin' down the byways,
Tromps a lonely figure...

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The Fifties were really and truly not all that square
Though that dullard Dwight D. sat in the Executive Chair
And his frumpy wife Mamie had really...

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In my youth, I am sure I was slim,
a figure both modest and trim;
but now I am old, I'm frequently told
my features are wrinkled and...

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"haunting the black air, braver at night.......
...lonely thing, twelve fingered, out of mind......
.....I have been her kind."
Anne Sexton


I Have Been Her Kind

I float above....
a cloud,...

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Click a tee, click a tee, click a tee click,
Flick a dee, fick a dee, fick a dee, flick,
I do all of this to attract...

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Aint no life without heartache, aint no love without pain 
Someday Mister Blues, he come callin' your name 
Aint no life without suffering, aint no...

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It’s hard to find a pair of shoes
Both comfortable and chic.
I spent the whole day searching
So I know of what I speak.

For the footwear meant...

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So I wrote a poem
About the miracle of life
And posted it quite proudly
However naming it
Life Insurance
I fear the soup finds dowdy...

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Mating Season


flashing bright plumage, peacock attracts mate
dowdy, brown peahen quivers...
monsoon rains on the way

06-07-2014


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Trump Over and Over

Around with him have to hassle and hassle
So he built Trump Tower which is a castle
And of does deliberately seem to be...

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GATESHEAD  1954


My home’s  between vinegar factory
And a small-time scrap metal dealer
This town   is  an ugly and  grimy
Industrial place -...

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My brother reprobator and oedipus.
Nimble selictor, nisus impersonale muss.
Improvidence, goggle eyed or irrational,
Instigate inane dowdy, kinsfolk isolate fuss.
Paramour or inamorato objurgate carlish,
Impune contrivance, obfuscate gobble...

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The Magic Almond Tree 

And now it is time 
For the ugly almond tree to blossom
And be a bride of spring
And how beautiful she is
Amongst...

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While driving through an unfamiliar place,
It felt like I was lost without a trace.
My journey's end appeared so out of reach,
A barrier I couldn't seem...

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