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Best Jived Poems

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


Premium Member Sipping Cedar With My Sweetheart
And his frost-clad lips I gently kissed
So mildly radiant amid this  place--
That the silvery night grew quite intense
Until a gasp rushed from his cheeks.
While...

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Categories: jived, desire, sweet love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Juke Box Alliteration Sensation
One fleeting Friday Freda Foster fretted at the frog pond. She  said" This was suppose 
To be my day."
I said yeah, go on. "I've...

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Categories: jived, angst, dance,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member While Waiting For My Return Flight Home
"You in the military?"

I was confused at first and didn't know why the man would ask me such a question. But then I remembered my...

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Categories: jived, bereavement, life, stress, travel,
Form: Narrative
The Dino Dance
There once was a dinosaur dance,
Which was great for lizard romance.
As T Rex stole the show,
When he jived to rock ‘n’ roll,
Marc Bolan didn’t stand...

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© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jived, music
Form: Limerick
Lost In Reason
Sitting all alone on a gym bench
A half-empty glass of punch in my hand,
The lights bounced off the disco ball
On the stage was the college...

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Categories: jived, boyfriend, girlfriend, lost, romance,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Dancin' Easy
Sue jived to tremendous applause 
Then pondered what could be the cause 
She’d got dressed in a rush
So her cute peachy tush
Revealed she'd not put...

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Categories: jived, body, dance, humorous, ,
Form: Limerick
The Conjuring Nights
In the silence of night a lone wolf howled,
I glanced at my watch, it showed twelve,
 “Ding Ding” the sound of a church bell,
On spur...

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Categories: jived, mystery, scary,
Form: Free verse
Candlelit Flash
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Categories: jived, art, imagination, love, passionnight,
Form: Shape
Swing Heil
The flit of peach chiffon skirts, 
 And seas of swirling dancers  
romped, jived, swayed and turned 
Their movements in perfect harmony 
To a...

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© Keys Giri  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jived, courage, music, world war
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Heebie Jeebies Came To Play
The heebie-jeebies came by to play.
I promptly shooed them straight away.
Come on they said as they jiggled and jived.
But my long-awaited guest had just arrived.

Hey!...

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Categories: jived, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Credentials
I thought these white words like seering light
That jived my brain with alien meanings
To my pain were scandalously gone
I thought I would have to find...

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Categories: jived, history, on writing and
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dance
They danced as if they were the only ones at the outdoor concert.
They were challenging others to join them.
There were chuckles in the background as...

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Categories: jived, age, confidence, courage, dance,
Form: Free verse
The Cat, the Dog, the Mouse and the Rabbit Hutch
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When passing the pet shop window, I saw a wondrous sight.
The pets were having a party,...

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Categories: jived, animal, cat, dog,
Form: Rhyme
Jive Season Nursery Rhyme
You know the Old Lady who lived in a shoe,
She led the Autumn Jive with Little Boy Blue,
DJ Peter Piper looked suave and dapper,
The Old...

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© W J Clarke  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jived, autumn, dance, humor, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member He
He wriggled and squirmed,
Like a demented worm.
Fidgeted and fumbled,
Grimaced and grumbled,
He jiggled and jived,
Contorted and writhed,
Kept saying Arrr,
Like a wasp in a jar.
He was out...

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Categories: jived, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme

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