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Best Jitterbugging Poems

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Premium Member Titillating Twenties
Flirting flappers
Whipper snappers

Prohibitions
Big restrictions

Legs are showing
pearls are Swirling

Charleston’s harking
Lovers sparking

Dancing Lindy
With Miss Mindy

Jitterbugging
Afterwards hugging

Raccoon coats
Rowing boats

Bathtub gin
Fun never ends.
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Categories: jitterbugging, dance, fashion, fun, imagery,
Form: Free verse



Playing the Dozens

Your mama said my mama
was blacker than burnt white toast
My daddy said your daddy
was a vanilla, rice cake loving Oriole
Your brother said my brother
was a...

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Categories: jitterbugging, feelings, truth, wisdom, words,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member A Sincere Distrust of Figs
In every apple, an atom resides; 
in every Adam, an apple abides. 

So it goes and goes, apples 
toppling off tables in rhythmic waves, 

falling...

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Categories: jitterbugging, fruit,
Form: Ekphrasis
A Night With Mic
The scent of musty, truly ancient fine books,
Waifs seductively behind the impossible doors, 
As they swing wide, out into L.A.’s balmy air,
I enter, a shiver,...

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Categories: jitterbugging, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, community,
Form: Carpe Diem
Let It Be Then
Yesterday brought not a storm, 
But a suffocating stillness.
Everything stopped.  
My throat grew dry.  
My bones began to ache.  
The silent but...

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Categories: jitterbugging, devotion, emotions, heartbreak, hope,
Form: Prose



Dancing With the Spirit Part 2
The Spirit of the Lord is not mentioned often in the Holy Scriptures 
But if you read the book of Acts you will get the...

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Categories: jitterbugging, dance, faith, god, inspirational,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Jazz - Pleiades
Jamming geniuses - Wow!

                  Jitterbugging soul feels

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jitterbugging, happiness, music,
Form: Pleiades
Hanky Panky
Hanky Panky

Honey 
My foot is taping
It’s been a while
I figure it’s gotta be almost
An hour

Baby
You know you 
Drive me crazy
How you do it
Constantly
You tease my...

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Categories: jitterbugging, funny, love, passionme, love,
Form: Free verse
My Changed Body Morphology
Incrementally corporeal essence, here
to fore i.e. figurative spear
tire of mine, doth elicit despair
daily appall, thus I air
part tickle laurel lei objection
    ...

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Categories: jitterbugging, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jay, Jay, Jay, Jay, Jay, Jay, J
Jovial Joyful Jolly jubilant J.
Jabbery, jitterbugging joyful jay
Jeepers, J, jibing and jiving, jollifying,
French Jay, Joie de vivre, joy of living
Jupiter’s Juturna could not have been...

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Categories: jitterbugging, word play,
Form: Free verse
Get Out of My Head Mister Chatterbox
Get Out Of My Head Mister Chatterbox!

Upon prima facie first blush
me mind's eye all atwitter,
sans long forgotten
"FAKE" sexual exploits
set mum (chrysos anthem) all aglitter,

boot like...

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Categories: jitterbugging, addiction, anger, assonance, grief,
Form: Light Verse
Playing the Dozens

Your mama said my mama
was blacker than burnt white toast
My daddy said your daddy
was a vanilla, rice cake loving Oriole
Your brother said my brother
was a...

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Categories: jitterbugging, children, truth, wisdom, words,
Form: Light Verse
Ongepatshket Torqued Skewed Reflection
Ongepatshket torqued skewed reflection

drawn courtesy lots of byte size chalk.

When e'er I summon fat chance
to empower me self with courage 
and steal a passing glance
in...

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Categories: jitterbugging, 12th grade, adventure, america,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cdefghij Poem
Curiously creative critters crowded confused Crystal
Deliberately demanding diverse diagrams during depression
Eliciting extra enthusiastic energy entertaining elves 
Formulating fresh flippant flares for Freddie
Giving generous gifts, gallivanting...

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Categories: jitterbugging, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Frog Hoppers Dance
Frog hoppers dance by the brilliant light of the moon.
The jitterbugging is lively and some of them swoon.
Two get carried away. One of them tries...

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Categories: jitterbugging, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things