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Best Ladylike Poems

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Premium Member Unstable
You think this is quaint, a case of the blues
A handkerchief for a dainty cheek
But I want to howl, I want to shriek
I want to...

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Categories: ladylike, anxiety, conflict, depression,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Cat Valentine - Revised
Often at midnight, she jumps on my bed;
she comes to me then on her four small feet.
How softly on my blankets she does tread.
So beautiful...

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Categories: ladylike, cat,
Form: Dizain
Premium Member Yeuk Updated - Collaboration With Rob Bettridge
My sister Susie loved picking her nose
To her chagrin her little finger froze
It was stuck so far
Doc used a crowbar
Finger up nose - not a...

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Categories: ladylike, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick
And Then That Door-Contest
Oh I thank heavens they're all gone now 
My perfect holiday dinner, yet somehow
I managed to shut my mouth ever tight
When all hell broke loose...

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© Judy Konos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ladylike, family,
Form: Rhyme
Invisible Ladies
Invisible ladies! You see them ev’rywhere,
In sensible raincoats and Margaret Thatcher hair.
Standing at bus-stops, watching the bus go by:
Waiting at crossings,
Letting the traffic splatter mud...

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Categories: ladylike, funny, people, song-lyric
Form: Verse



Sweet Childhood Memories
"recently scenes of early life have stolen into my mind, like breezes blown ..."
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Categories: ladylike, childhood,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Rosa and Klaus
They rode the bus with me today
From our town to the big city
she, so dainty, hands crossed, old hands.
Ankles crossed ever so slightly,
so very ladylike.

He...

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Categories: ladylike, hope, love, passion, peopleme,
Form: Free verse
I Am My Mother's Daughter
i am my mother's daughter 
a little bit flighty
kind of a tomboy
feminine and ladylike
when you want to be
counting on my hand
the times i saw you...

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Categories: ladylike, daughter, hope, life, love,
Form: I do not know?
Super Grandma Girl
Super grandma girl, in her long green cape,
took a quick ride on a golden grape;
she slipped, greased lightning like, over the floor,
gunned her girl motor...

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Categories: ladylike, fun, grandchild, grandmother, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Yeuk - You Have Been Warned
My sister Susie loved picking her nose
To her chagrin her little finger froze
It was stuck so far
Doc used a crowbar
Finger up nose - not a...

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Categories: ladylike, body, children, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member ''Not That Long Ago''
There was a time, not that long ago that was sad,
A time when a woman's purpose was to please men;
Since childhood taught to dress a...

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Categories: ladylike, history, women,
Form: Verse
Talk Is Cheap - Battle Rap
Talk is Cheap - Battle Rap

Yo, Ima outcheek you… gimme that mic,
I’m lethal, a viper ready to strike;
and it ain’t gonna be pretty – not...

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Categories: ladylike, fun, rap,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Spinning Top Toddler
I still have faint memories of the day
When in our small living room I did play
A toddler of three, spinning on my head
Lord, why wasn’t...

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Categories: ladylike, childhood, funny, sports
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member Influences
In youth I learned to jump
First off steps, then rooftops
Spirit of adventure
Nurtured in the heart of a child

Preschool acrobat twirling on my head
Grandma swatted my...

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Categories: ladylike, introspection,
Form: Free verse
'yeuk' Updated - Updated Collaboration With Jan Allison
(What Susie Did)




My sister Susie loved picking her nose
To her chagrin her little finger froze
It was stuck so far
Doc used a crowbar
Finger up nose -...

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Categories: ladylike, humorous,
Form: Limerick

Book: Shattered Sighs