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Best Jig Poems

Below are the all-time best Jig poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of jig poems written by PoetrySoup members


Don'T Bother Me
Don't bother me with conformity
don't bother me today-
with things I should (or shouldn't) do
or what I shouldn't say!

Don't bother me with conformity
my house is not...

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Categories: jig, community, funny, how i
Form: Rhyme



It's hard to Let Go
On Christmas day before he died,
I went home to visit my dad.
The house was full of family, 
our mood was quite somber and sad.

We drifted...

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Categories: jig, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Tale of Fairies
A long, long time ago in the land of Fays,
     lived a forest nymph of beguiling beauty.
    ...

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Categories: jig, fairy, children, joy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Old Bear
The Old grizzled Bear... was now keenly aware
    as he lay in his Cave all alone.
Where his time as King... was a...

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Categories: jig, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Irish Nectar of the Sun Goddess
Irish Nectar of the Sun Goddess

This mystical aura of golden radiant sunbeams so sublime
With a warm mead laying lovely below its enchanted neck,
Is breathless releasing...

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Categories: jig, dream, fantasy, heaven, love,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Green Attired Leprechaun
Green Attired Leprechaun

Rascal Leprechauns, how they love to tease.
They play tricks on you, then hide behind trees.
After working hard making shoes all day
They love to...

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Categories: jig, allegory, green, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Heave Ho and Yo Ho Ho
There's a Senior's home called the Shady Lane
    and life's curse is at an end.
Where a hundred souls are kept in line
...

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Categories: jig, adventure, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Killing of One Hundred and Fifty Million Years
another typical day, with feet on the ground
  ordering the hedge to meet my image of trim
  many measured bits fall before the...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jig, bird, child, death, humanity,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Nature's Love
The brook follows the path of least resistance
It does not confront obstacles 
It embraces them
Nature knows not war

The landscape is tranquil, peaceful
Nature likes it that...

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Categories: jig, love, nature,
Form: Prose
Premium Member You might be Irish
This was written a few years ago for St. Patty's Day and posted:
If your favorite color is green and of the Emerald Isles you dream,
you...

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Categories: jig, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Keep It Turnin' To the Right
Oklahoma cowboy, tough coal miner’s son
Born in Henryetta, south of Tulsa some
Raised by daddy’s momma, taught him wrong from right
Daddy taught him ropin’, taught him...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jig, day, earth, funny, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member One Autumn Day
Amidst the scorching heat of the sun
Everyone likes to feel its glowing colors all around
Children tossed up and down those kaleidoscopic leaves
As they giggle, roll...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jig, beauty, nature, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Yard Sale Cowboy On Cd
From here to wherever, I'll follow a yard sale sign,
it's a past time endeavor, for my collective state of mind,
I may buy some furniture, or...

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Categories: jig, funny, song-lyricold, nice, fishing,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Always a Dream
A little fairy princess one day sits resting on a most beautiful sunflower,
And magically she begins stretching her wings for anticipatory flight
While capturing a vision...

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Categories: jig, allegory, beauty, celebration, emotions,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Cowboy Hoe Down
On a Sunday in the evening
The old barn becomes a hall
Social place where every weekend
The town folk go for a ball.
 
The inside is decorated...

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Categories: jig, dance,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs