Best Jitterbug Poems
Life Is a Dance
...Sometimes life is such a bore we run on automatic;
Then it’s time to tango for a dash of the dramatic.
Or when things are dull and only gusto will suffice,
We cha-cha or calypso to inject a dose of s......
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Categories:
jitterbug, life, life, life, time,
Form:
Couplet
dancing with mom -
...
when I was just a wee one
my mom taught me to dance
to start, I balanced on her toes
but then steps more advanced
she showed me how to Fox Trot
(I could c......
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Categories:
jitterbug, analogy, dance, joy, life,
Form:
Couplet
Cora's Clothesline
...What softness in silence amidst the cacophony of a spin cycle world war.
Lying next to your glow in sleep's stillness, careful of your bandaged hand.
Watching your breath enter and leave, the rise ......
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Categories:
jitterbug, desire, heart, innocence, june,
Form:
Narrative
Dance Party In Summer
...dance party of summer
blue waves rock and roll
seashore tides shimmy and shake ~
sunlight tap dances
white clouds pirouette
delphiniums deep plies ~
ebb tides grand jettes
meadows ......
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Categories:
jitterbug, celebration, dance, summer,
Form:
Haiku
The 50's
...There was a time when I was young
To share an era that begun
From music to the fashion trend
TV shows and history
Fads and other mysteries
I saw them all as time moved on
From classic pop to ......
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Categories:
jitterbug, remember, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
A Letter To Santa Part One Please Read First
...As I lie near the covers all cosy and tight
I smile when I think Santa’s coming tonight
Most of the Prezzies are under the tree
But Mum say’s Santa’s coming especially for me
I wrote him a letter......
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Categories:
jitterbug, hope, boat, me, mum,
Form:
Rhyme
Love Bug
...June bug
Jitterbug
Litterbug
Doodlebug
Sweet love bug
Please don’t shrug
Or be smug
My precious darling pug
With you I’ll share my mug
When at my heart you tug
You’re in for a big hug
Let’......
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Categories:
jitterbug, dog, fun, joy, love,
Form:
Monorhyme
Turquoise Lake
...In southern Colorado,
that old Rocky Mountain state,
beneath God's azure heavens
is a place called Turquoise Lake.
I'd been driving all around,
it was time to take some lunch.
The lake l......
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Categories:
jitterbug, fishing,
Form:
Rhyme
Golden Oldies
...Dimes drop, records begin to drop
Rhythm to stroll, jivin’ to hip hop
Slow to jitterbug, boogaloo to rock
Twistin’ Chubby and rock around the clock
The Platters sing, you hold her close
Eye......
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Categories:
jitterbug, music, nostalgia, remember,
Form:
Rhyme
Butterfly
...An aerial tango of butterflies at play
Jitterbug whirls on a balmy spring day
Flowers sway as the wind makes them dance
Awaiting caresses as butterflies prance
From flower to flower there'......
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Categories:
jitterbug, butterfly, flower,
Form:
Rhyme
Culture Clash
...I was a college music teacher, engaged in pitch, tempo, rhythm and melody,
As lavish planets dance around a golden star, with the zeal of fuchsia fidelity.
I taught harmony, vocals and si......
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Categories:
jitterbug, beauty, dance, fantasy, fun,
Form:
Couplet
Time To Go
...Time can be a minute
Or it can be an hour
Days, weeks, years, decades
Time itself is a power
Sometimes the dawn of morning
Or heat of afternoon
The setting sun of evening
The light of the mi......
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Categories:
jitterbug, allegory, meaningful,
Form:
Free verse
Storms of Fall Splendor
...8-16 Lines of Fall Splendor – 9-12-23
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Storms of Fall Splendor
Whirlwinds of splendor jitterbug in back streets,
Autumn’s song breathes in a bliz......
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Categories:
jitterbug, autumn, color, storm,
Form:
Rhyme
Alexander Buffalo
...Alexander buffalo can’t dance even for grass.
His imbecilic jitterbug keeps leaving many nimble organists perplexed
Quickstepping really scares the unprepared viewer
While Xander yells, ‘Z......
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Categories:
jitterbug, dance,
Form:
ABC
Back Seat Bingo
...: baby, cool, hip hop, nostalgia, passion, word play
Back seat Bingo ©
Groovy hot licks on tubs
Daddy-o’s a finger zinger
That straw boss sure gets down
Get down gates get down
Ah train wrec......
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Categories:
jitterbug, baby, cool, hip hop,
Form:
Free verse