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Premium Member Mind Yer Manners
My long-sufferin' Mother tried to teach me the rudiments of social graces,
So as not to make a fool of myself at fancy affairs and such...

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Categories: mind your manners, growing up, humorous, ,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Learning From Life
If I do this then this will happen.
That's the way it goes.
Though why some fail to learn this,
The Good Lord only knows.

Some people fail to...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mind your manners, culture, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pointing Fingers
Never speak ill of others,
No matter what they do,
For I can guarantee my friend,
It'll come right back to you.

Don't repeat the things you hear,
If it...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mind your manners, inspirational,
Form: Quatrain
Formal Ambitions
The rule book
Of Society rules
We either live by the rules
Or be ruled unfit:

Toe the line
Walk that fine line
Keep in line
But never cross the line;

Speak up
Speak...

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© Deb Radke  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mind your manners, social
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Not So Bad
It's really not so terrible,
This thing of growing old.
I don't have to mind my manners
Nor do what I've been told.

No one seems to care about...

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Categories: mind your manners, funny
Form: Light Verse



Daily Events
I can be selfish, insecure
 And mean.
   I can hide my dirt,  
 I can choose to come clean.

   I...

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Categories: mind your manners, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Growing Old Disgracefully
All my life I worried 'bout,
What others thought of me.
I always tried to watch myself,
And act as I should be.

Mind my manners, stand up straight,
And...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mind your manners, encouraging,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Growing Old Disgracefully
All my life I worried 'bout,
What others thought of me.
I always tried to watch myself,
And act as I should be.

Mind my manners, stand up straight,
And...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mind your manners, happiness, life,
Form: Quatrain
Texas Girl
Texas girl born and raised,
Try our BBQ and ya'll will be amazed,
I'll tell ya somethin' about livin' in the south,
Ya'll will hear, " down yonder,"...

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Categories: mind your manners, funny, humorous, silly, word
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Field of Rest
In a meadow
in a field
field of daisies
field of dreams
dreams of fortune
dreams come true
true blue
true love's kiss
kiss a frog
kiss me quick
quick like a bunny
quick thinking
thinking of...

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Categories: mind your manners, earth, heart, life,
Form: Blitz
Measure For Mum
Most women would jump at the chance,
Of a night in a flash restaurant,
And at one stage my wife was the same,
Now it’s something that she...

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Categories: mind your manners, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Stirring Tea
Wearing my best dress,
Stirring tea with a fine spoon,
I will mind my manners well
And be a success.
Tonight I adore the moon
While my disappointments swell.

Everyone will...

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Categories: mind your manners, emotions, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Breathtaking
Beauty, splendrously attractive,
Ravishing and radiant,
Engages all my senses
As I open garden gate.

Trees, vying for attention,
Have resplendent, springtime wear
That dispatches sweet perfumery,
Attracting bees to everywhere.

Knowing I...

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Categories: mind your manners, beauty,
Form: Acrostic
Black Paws Pirate Ship
An Ancient crazy Ox, 
Once had a whacking job,
Breaking on the dance floor,
One too many holes to show!
 
A sleepy grizzly bear on four,
Drinking ale...

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Categories: mind your manners, humorous
Form: I do not know?
Oh, Little Moth
Oh, little moth, your primordial flight.
has brought you to my well lite home tonight.
Lepidopteron, master of the night,
fly quickly to the light of my kitchen,'
sit...

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Categories: mind your manners, funnymoon,
Form: Free verse

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