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Best Prig Poems

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Premium Member Remarks of a Prig
I'm hearing rumors that are easy to believe
but none of them give me reason to grieve
You've been telling people their poetry sucks
Words from your mouth...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prig, dedication,
Form: Rhyme



Don'T Bother Me
Don't bother me with conformity
don't bother me today-
with things I should (or shouldn't) do
or what I shouldn't say!

Don't bother me with conformity
my house is not...

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Categories: prig, community, funny, how i
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Deleted Poems and Farewell
I have deleted the 2 poems I posted earlier today, and instead I offer what will be my final write.  I have read the...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prig, moving on,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Crotches and Scotches
There once was a bold prig named Wiener
who had an unsightly demeanor
he took pics of his crotch
after two shots of scotch  
"Where's his wife?...

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Categories: prig, funny,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Tea Party
A game of musical chairs has just begun in earnest. A pot and kettle band arrives 
through the dining rooms’ French doors following the Valentine...

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Categories: prig, childhood, fantasy, childrenchild, child,
Form: Narrative



Woozy and Floozy
All aboard the conductor roared
Gripping the puce spruced rolling caboose
At starboard some people snored
While shaking loose foul gastric juice
But to port was a snort
From a...

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Categories: prig, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Meticulous
METICULOUS 

Thom Love Pruett – his effect on absolutely
      everyone around him –
Impeccably dressed
Moderately slight in stature and weight
With features...

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Categories: prig, people,
Form: Free verse
Junk - Jobless Jack
Jobless Jack, a real jerk, dances a jig,
He juggles, smuggles jewels in backpacks,
jawbreakers, jump ropes, jelly rolls and crack.
~~Jig be up,  Jack'll  jiggle...

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Categories: prig, 11th grade, drug, jobs,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Swinging Pig Tall Tale
I’m upset with smug Peter Pig
Who’d promised we could dance a jig
But spies my bent trotter
Gets nasty - the rotter
I call him an ignorant prig!

I’ve...

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Categories: prig, animal, dance, fun, romance,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Pascal's Wager
So tell me pilgrim what you feel
Do you believe your end is real, 
That on this plane your looming death
Is simple as a lapse of...

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Categories: prig, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Initiation
three pensee

Break room
boss’s nephew  -
You’re using  my favorite mug.
I’m sorry, it wasn’t labeled.
(I lie, his cup, my eye.)

Garage
boss’s nephew -
Your car’s in my...

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Categories: prig, work,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Fig Tales
Ficus fracas
Benjamina
What a little prig!

Time to chop
you mallaprop;
Can’t produce a fig!

Righteous ficus 
Carica
never be discountin’

Grabbed that little
benjie snot, and
drowned him 
in the fountain.

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H/T to Gershon...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prig, silly,
Form: Rhyme
A Density of Mind
Last night there was a star stumbling in the sky
Mumbling like an imbecile cuz it was high
Each disrespectful word
Was totally absurd
It makes me wonder... what...

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Categories: prig, identity,
Form: Limerick
Three!
I always wondered when I was young why everything came in THREEs;
Is there anyone out there that knows, please lend me your expertise;

“Goldilocks and the...

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Categories: prig, confusion, funny
Form: Couplet
A Fiendish Destitution
While we dwell to this dreidel,
I seek to know before a sear,
Even in the most ineluctable dandle,
The fruit to which may indeed bear;
In the imbue...

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Categories: prig, 3rd grade, africa, allusion,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things