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Premium Member Shilly-Shally
He
kept his
powder dry-
and missed the ebb
tide....

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Categories: shilly, funny, life, parody,
Form: Epitaph



Shilly Shally Way
Move on you persnickety soul.
Normal doesn't  really exist.
Take leave oh inadequate power. 
For the doyen of your being shouts
halt! halt! halt!

This blanket does not...

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Categories: shilly, passion, visionary,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Gnalsmoob
An old codger who farted a lot -
of good etiquette didn’t know squat.
When I met him, his nose
started running. He chose
his new shirt to wipe...

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Categories: shilly, funny, old, old,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Pick-A-Dilly Lily Nr
The once was a Pick-a-Dilly Lily,
well, she was all green, don't you see?
Though her friends ran about willy-nilly,
she sat on the ground 'neath a tree.

Dumpty-Down...

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Categories: shilly, childhood, life,
Form: Rhyme
A Kiss In the Dark
Blinded and saving the love talk in the dark
In a sensuous connection came a spark
An active mind bee-lined for a kiss
Shilly-shally bemused as lass remarks
Lips...

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Categories: shilly, boyfriend,
Form: Limerick



Succulent Luscious Dreamz
Malodorous tavern’s garret, the codger it accommodates, No more,
Fuzzled in brew, his fuzzy lady, her life she lives to abhor.

Randy colleen gape at her with...

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Categories: shilly, fantasy, , sweet love,
Form: Couplet
Please Don'T Asked For My Decision On Anything
Please don't anybody ask me to decide anything. I do not know
The difference between, the Concord or a Jet Plane
The Republican or the Democrats, 
White...

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Categories: shilly, art, black african american,
Form: Concrete
Close Call In Ireland
CLOSE    CALL   IN    IRELAND



I once had an affaire de coeur  with a foxylady, in fact a...

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Categories: shilly, funny, me, old, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Confusion
Thoughts scurrying in my head 
like underground commuters - 
pushing, bustling, focused only 
upon themselves with no care for 
others - reaching for the last...

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Categories: shilly, angstme,
Form: Free verse
Epitaph On the Plateau
Hacked down at dawn is the tree that would have blossomed
Maimed is the navel that sometimes may have grown straight
Burned is the candle that may...

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Categories: shilly, war, may,
Form: Elegy
It's All Rhetoric
Pell-mell I said, we have to go 
As she shilly-shallied about 
Don’t dilly-dally it’s time to leave 
As I called down the hall in a...

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Categories: shilly, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Deceitful Mankind
Dear,oh my dear mankind!  you and me were created
But how sorrowful it was!  Because of your selfishness,
I couldn’t live my life as I...

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Categories: shilly, nature,
Form: Ballad
Fate
Oh! A shilly-shally puzzle it is
an oracle's unfulfilled prophecy
a snarl of vagrant kind it is.
A riddle quite hazy to resolve.
May the impending morrows,
untangle this weird...

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Categories: shilly, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Dithery Tizz
Tis all 
shilly-shally, dilly dally
wiffle waffle, willy wobble 
quiver and dither 
teeter and twitch,
which whatever, wherefore wobble
hem and haw, ho and hum
Tis all a dithery...

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Categories: shilly, angst, life,
Form: Alliteration
Move Heaven and Earth
M-ove heaven and earth, 
E-arly August twentieth Sunday; 
L-et the task get done, 
L-et the odds fade 
A-way. 

S-how your determination, 
E-liminate the shilly-shally; 
C-ontinue...

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Categories: shilly, birthday,
Form: Acrostic

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