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Best Foppish Poems


Premium Member Stagecoach Is A-Comin' To Old Santa Fe
..."Hyar she comes!  The weekly stagecoach is a-comin' to old Santa Fe!"
The driver cracked his whip and blowed his klaxon to herald the way!

The weekly arrival of the stagecoach was cause fer rauco......

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Categories: foppish, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member On the Salutations of Ginsberg To Pessoa and Pessoa's Alvaro To Whitman
...Every time  I read Pessoa I think
I'm better than he is
Salutations to Fernando Pessoa-Alan Ginsberg
 
 Me, the monocled one, with my foppish belted waistcoat, 
I'm not unworthy of ......

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Categories: foppish, appreciation, poetry, tribute, word
Form: Free verse
Premium Member For Get Me Knots
...Surrounded now by wreathes and satin sheets
awash in tears like crystal coursing down
your ivory visage stirs thoughts of Keats,
the onyx black of ringlets 'bout your brow
amen, but that was then......

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Categories: foppish, death, eulogy, funeral, lost
Form: Rhyme Royal

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Affability and Amiability In Your Agility
...Wear no long face
When storms rage in your space
Flying and crying you out of place 

If you do
Like a cow you’ll moo
Shooting and hooting at the crew

You claim to train
With foibles you ca......

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Categories: foppish, poems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Should the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 1, Part 6
...The curtain rises on Bumblebee Babineaux walking self-confidently along Chartres Street.

Bumblebee [singing]: Ain’t nothin’ gonna break my stride, nobody’s gonna slow me down. Oh, no, I got to kee......

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Categories: foppish, allegory,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Feasting On Poetry Ultimate Delicacy
...Today’s poem is a juicy pork chop
The next one that skates by is a foppish cod fish
Each delicacy and dessert separate in their own way
Living their own truths.

Yesterday’s poems were chocked w......

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Categories: foppish, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Frantically Fruitful Freshly Free
...Fruitful faeries flying freshly frightenly faraway
Flashing flea-bitten furry fireflies fantasy fey,
Faux flash-dancing flowery figs flowing flippantly free,
Ferocious fierce foursome fruit-flies ......

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Categories: foppish, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Alliteration
We Feel Real When We Steal Our Last Breath
...Drown not in yummy yesterdays, seize the breeze of today
While intuitive initiatives aplenty beg to be taken
Into your stride if only ears and eyes should every Saturday

Strive to debunk myths o......

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Categories: foppish, poems,
Form: Terzanelle
Premium Member Critterature: A Zebraic Conundrum
......or Yipes! Stripes!

The zebra lives in Africa
On the plains of the Serengeti.
Though often foppish and vain,
He doesn't complain
'bout his place in the alphabet.
He leads a fairly innocuous......

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Categories: foppish, animal, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Aware of Ripe Palm
...Thirst for shadow in the scorching summer 
Ripe palm fruit calling new foppish eater 
Crows flying and sitting, 
Making nest in twig's bin 
Passing by this tree, bald man in full fear!


-May ......

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Categories: foppish, fun,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member You
...Me for you, your foppish dandy,
  And me to listen, as you talk.
But I do doubt, I’ll be handy,
  Even to take you, for a walk.

Why love for me, you say you’ll give,
   But mine for you, is st......

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Categories: foppish, feelings, life, nonsense, simple,
Form: Rhyme
The Circus
...Come the foppish, come the fine.
Come the fancy drinking wine.
Come the lowly, come the poor.
Come the beggars beg for more.
Come the crooks, come the thieves.
Come the lurkers under eves.
Come......

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Categories: foppish, family, imagination, nostalgia, people,
Form:
Premium Member We Have Had Enough Fires
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A summer’s morn, dark skies, forlorn.
Burning, smoking, California cities, this August morn,

Our state with illegal, infected people overrun.
We think the virus is just plain fun?
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Categories: foppish, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Oh, I Forgot
...I forgot I belonged to God.
He is my only Master, not worldly
foppish clowns.
My allegiance, to no human is owed.
Just to Him, who gave me life and an
eternal soul.

Can people harm me, oh yes......

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Categories: foppish, god,
Form: Rhyme
Beau Ideal
...Nectared graces overwhelming must 
Underline your pulse-halting charms;
Utopian opal spelt by honeyed terms,
Resistless pearl cased in mortal dust. 

Fair-miened nymphs kings did melt;
But such......

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Categories: foppish, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry