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Best Lickety Split Poems

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Premium Member Lickety Split
L ittle voices, rising in volume and pitch
I mploring teacher, begs all available aids to help pop 
C oats, hats, muffs, mitts, sweaters, gloves, socks,...

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Categories: lickety split, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member Lickety Split
Life is ebbing quickly, …just as the sun must fall.
If we listen close enough, our number will be called.
Can you hear a ticking clock, unwinding...

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Categories: lickety split, inspirational, journey, life,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Lickety Split
Lickety Split

Life is a vessel 
Inside my mind
Creeping along
Knowingly
Elan is over when the sails topple 
The wind ceases
Youth, and lulls old age

Such is the ascent...

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Categories: lickety split, allusion, beauty, journey, sea,
Form: Acrostic
Lickety Split In the Corridor
Lilacs
In the parks
Cruelly crushed
Killing the pink buds
Eliminating the poetry
Torturing hands rejoicing
Yellow yelling in the panick

Some poets say
Power flowering in
Lickety split in the corridor
In all the...

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Categories: lickety split, anxiety, pain,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Lickety-Split
Lickety-split, I sit up and look at the clickety clock,
      oh my gosh, why am I lollygagging in this cozy...

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Categories: lickety split, funny, humor, life,
Form: Narrative



Rhyme God
Enter the Everest that devastates 
as he never ever rests and demonstrates 
his quick wit picnic of traits that place 
with lickety split flicks on...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lickety split, slam, smart, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fireman Competition Dragon
Dragon went to the mailbox this morn, 
And he came excitedly flying back, yes, toward the house… 
So Now, you should… be doubly, doubly, doubly...

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Categories: lickety split, fantasy, funny, hilarious, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Judge Not
As we stroll through life at a slow snail pace,
Or Lickety split... whichever the case,
Remember to look, sift through your life,
God didn't make junk, not...

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© Judy Konos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lickety split, parody,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Bit of Lofty Chit Chat
Greetings from Canada dear readers !  Let me cajole you with a wee bit of fun
and ardent banter.  Well, obviously I am Canadian...

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Categories: lickety split, fun,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member A Poet Has a Heart

There were some poets, they lived in gnarled trees.

Creating short comments lists, rapidly as can be.

In that way, they could comment, lickety-split! 

Mundane acronyms, displaying...

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Categories: lickety split, friendship, how i feel,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Song Is --
A Song is -- 

  Not words on paper
    or a tune from the lips
  To reflect moments poignant
 ...

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Categories: lickety split, heart, music, song,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member That Spark of Hope
A little girl lost her home this year, for her, Christmas wouldn't be there.
Her family was angry from all the troubles, they simply couldn't repair.
Don’t...

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Categories: lickety split, christmas, conflict, confusion, depression,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Dragons Banana Bread
Banana Bread Yum!


Spring was in the air sooo thick that you could cut it with a knife!
As to the Laundromat I went with Dragon at...

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Categories: lickety split, crazy, fantasy, fun, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Dragon and Santa
Christmas roses are red, and violets are so very blue…
Dear Santa. We love our dear Dragon and hope you do, too.
Nightly, visions of colors dance...

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Categories: lickety split, adventure, christmas, fun, funny,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Dragon Santa
There’s a little known fact about the North Pole.
Now Santa’s a Dragon, you really should know.
Now think about this and it will become clear.
Santa, like...

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Categories: lickety split, christmas, fantasy, fun, funny,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things