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Best Fast And Loose Poems

Below are the all-time best Fast And Loose poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of fast and loose poems written by PoetrySoup members


Late Summer Nights Dream At the Cat In the Hat
It was way after eight, at the Cat in the Hat.
    The whole plaice was swimming, quoth the mackrel to sprat.
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Categories: fast and loose, imagination, nonsense,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member The Sisters of Bowling Green
Two sisters it seems lived near Bowling Green;
Each a beauty in every way.
One fair it is told with hair of pure gold,
Eyes blue as the...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fast and loose, halloween,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member What's In the Noose
Long tennis matches stretch on and on for love of deuce,
While endless freight trains mercifully end with a little red caboose.

Domestic snits could be shortened...

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Categories: fast and loose, humorous, perspective, word play,
Form: Monorhyme
Whatever You Say Dear-It's Hillbilly Love
When I see you in the broad daylight
Your long,ratty beard gives me a fright

You keep critters in there just for play
They won't hurt a thing,you...

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© Deb Wilson  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fast and loose, funny, peopleme,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Chief Many Papoose
There was a great Chief named Many Papoose,

   Who with many brave's squaws played fast 'n' loose!

      When...

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Categories: fast and loose, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Excuses, Excuses
The day was hot and reckless
And I?  I felt the same
I was feeling young and feckless
The day, it was to blame

The evening too was...

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Categories: fast and loose, day, eve, night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Warlock's Revenge
There was a young man lived under a curse,
For having the gall to tempt fate.
He's played fast and loose with the daughters of whose,
Was a...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fast and loose, halloween,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Chief Randy Moose
His warriors called him Chief Randy Moose

   Since with young maidens he played fast and loose

      He was...

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Categories: fast and loose, humorous, native american,
Form: Limerick
A Poet's Dozen
Illegitimacy

Prostitution is 
As old as humanity
Girls sell for a price

Food and sex is a precarious combination 
Man and beast sailing in the same trepidation

Among beasts...

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Categories: fast and loose, animal, bird, children, dance,
Form: Quintain (English)
Teendream
hanging out
that’s what we do
pondering glory and greatness,
drinking nostalgia from a plastic cup 

that clock ticks,
that song plays,
cross our t’s and dot our i’s
play fast...

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Categories: fast and loose, visionary
Form: Free verse
Summer Tummy
Old Soldier's Disease:
Civil War soldiers would march
Pick and eat cherries

No toilet for them
No toilet paper either
Just woods, trees and leaves

The result's the same
Out fast and...

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Categories: fast and loose, age, allusion, america, memory,
Form: Haiku
Starseed: Orion
From Orion, this light has came. To traverse, around the Earth.
Hands glowing. What does is it mean, when they begin to beam!
From my hands, to...

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Categories: fast and loose, sky,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Convenience Kills
The lack of effort
required to do
the daily tasks
expected of you

Has withered both
your mind and strength
Your life cut short
from greater length

Your struggles are 
emotional
To ease, ...

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Categories: fast and loose, age, scary, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Sisters of Bowling Green
Two sisters it seems lived near Bowling Green,
Each a beauty in every way.
One fair it is told with hair of pure gold,
Eyes blue as the...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fast and loose, halloween,
Form: Quatrain
Astray
I hate to look in the mirror
Afraid to see the truth
My conscience isn't clear
I play fast and loose

I know I changed my identity
When I was...

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Categories: fast and loose, anxiety, change, dark, dream,
Form: Lyric

Book: Shattered Sighs