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Best Shake A Leg Poems

Below are the all-time best Shake A Leg poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of shake a leg poems written by PoetrySoup members

The Night's Alive and A-Shiver

~ The night's alive and a-shiver ~


  The moon's a sliver
  a hammock without strings
  a pale banana with wings
  The...

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Categories: shake a leg, dance, life, moon, music,
Form: Rhyme

The Apple Tree

Apple Tree

I do not know why, but for the longest time, it has been assumed that I was in the Garden of Eden. I’ve been...

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Categories: shake a leg, christian, creation, desire, faith,
Form: Personification

Whispering Palms

Under the stern, watchful superintendence
Of whispering palms on the white sand coast 
Where a thousand strong bow to the breeze
And thousands more swing to the...

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Categories: shake a leg, dance, travel,
Form: Free verse

Huntsman Up My Shorts

Five in the morning
storm rumbles in distance
balmy, sweaty, thirsty
in the half light of dawn
I grab some shorts
from the work clothes draw
slip them on and a...

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Categories: shake a leg, angst, emotions, journey,
Form: Free verse

Colloquialisms

Well shut my mouth you honey bee,
y’all come round for gab an tea

At end of day, when all’s bout done,
lain in the hay we’ll have...

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Categories: shake a leg, culture, fun, history,
Form: Verse

Happy Birthday Meg (Kyrielle Sonnet)

Happy belated birthday Meg
This is your time to shake a leg
Hope you celebrated your way
Go ahead and have a great day

May your territory increase
And in...

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Categories: shake a leg, friendship, happiness, inspirational, life,
Form: Kyrielle

Poetic Soup

Gulped in the morning or sipped at night,
For a host of debilities the doc says they’re right. 
From consomme to Bovril and the dark marmite,...

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Categories: shake a leg, health
Form: Limerick

I Wait

In a session of shower
I send two lines in whatsapp
And wait for some flowers
To bring me a bird seated on a second
If not on hours...

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Categories: shake a leg, autumn, beauty, image, life,
Form: Free verse

The Devil Inside

Up, up, up you go. Shake a leg. Out you go, lazybones
  -- Aw, come on.  Linger a bit longer.  It's so...

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Categories: shake a leg, sleep, time,
Form: Free verse

Just a Poem About Hats

Distant sounds of the whippoorwill
I'm just kidding, I don't write stuff like that
I just wanted to tell you the story
About the man with the funny...

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Categories: shake a leg, funny
Form: Rhyme

-re-Make-

WAKE up man
SHAKE a leg
MAKE a turn around
TAKE your place man
RAKE in all for what it's worth.

HOVERING on the BRINK
SEARCHING for a lost missing LINK
SLIDING...

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Categories: shake a leg, on writing and words,
Form: Rhyme

There Wolf

Late at night I’d sprout some hair and my nose would start to twitch,
My teeth grew long but I didn’t care as I looked forward...

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Categories: shake a leg, funny, me, night, wife,
Form: Light Verse

Blooming Words

A world within a world 
Both are virtually real 
In between them is only a high wall 
Sometimes blue, sometimes white 
Though it is straight...

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Categories: shake a leg, beauty, success,
Form: Free verse

On the Bridge of Avignon

Lazy-bones, forsake your bed!
Shake off dull sloth, rise from the dead!
On the bridge of Avignon
there is dancing. Join the fun!
Ye gold-laden, ye who beg,
off to...

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Categories: shake a leg, celebration, dance, life,
Form: Verse

When I Write You a Letter

When I write you a letter, you had better reply!
All the time it eats up isn't easy to come by.
Do you think that I've got...

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Categories: shake a leg, abuse, best friend, betrayal,
Form: Quatrain