Best Shimmied Poems

The moon shimmied up her pole in the sky
   Winking at me with her crescent eye
The stars danced in time to a silent tune
   As the season ended that started in June

O, one long last look at summer's constellations
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One brilliant tranquil day, around a turquoise lake,
Autumn had come in and brightly painted
so prettily the branches of the trees.
Overhead the gulls serenely soared.
Below them, water shimmered -softly rippled. . . 
I thought how this was how the world should ever be -
beautiful and radiant,...

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This magical fairy who paints my dreams
Has blushed my fantasy in subtle hints
That kissed dreamy night on the thrills of fall--
An amber delight on the hills hued brown

I have known her long since blossoms of spring
When grass was green in the lilting prairies
And scent of...

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Has anybody ever noticed
That women are built to complain
They always ask where you've been
But they never let you explain

So here's some new excuses
That work from time to time
If you ever run out of your own 
Feel free to use some of mine

I was helping an...

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When Elvis sang he rocked and he rolled.  
His fans jumped up and shimmied, I'm told. 
The folks in Tupelo 
got all shook up below, 
like devils and demons got a hold....

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The suburban pressure cooker expelled its multiethnic horde north. Laden with implements of leisure, bicycles, kayaks, canoes and camping gear; world weary travelers of urban and suburban bent surged north ever, north. Bucking, they wrenched in unison at road repairs, shunted into single lanes by...

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Graceful Galaxy

Like strobing specters she shimmied
Gracefully gliding, sharing her shine
Heavens light lingering, laughing
Star light, star bright

Like peaceful poetry she perched
Luminescently looming, manifesting mystery
Soulful glow searching, waxing, waning
Magical Moon, majestic

Like fierce fire she flowed
Melodically meaningful, showering shadows
Bright light, guarding, guiding
Sultry Sun, smiling

Like a quintessential Queen she...

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Josiah left the little critter cage
Open at its door.
Little Charlie hamster knew
and climbed down to the floor.
Little Charlie hamster 
Made a daring escape.
He slid down the banister
And shimmied up the drape.
Josiah finally noticed 
The little rascal gone.
He made a panic search
Feeling sad for for what...

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For merely a hunch or a hint of a kiss
I nearly was lunch for a hit on a miss
She shimmied for me in a short pirate skirt
No army of men was a match for this flirt

I started to flee in the face of a rout
She...

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Well we certainly did it last night
When we went grocery shopping, there was a slight oversight
The dog will not eat his regular feast out of the bag under the sink
But he won't go thirsty, he will have plenty to drink
He's a good old boy, he...

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I was dancing at a dance club
Two stepping all about
When my thumb, it found a belt loop
And I couldn't get it out

I shifted and I wiggled
I thrust my hips out front in time
I bent over and I shimmied
I was twerking on the line

Now, I ain't...

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I was never afraid to 
Tell the story of the panic doors.
It once began while I shimmied my
Way up a lattice and
Into the guest room.
I felt like a child on the
Verge of an egocentric breakdown.
Full to the brim with euphoria.
Vibrant and agile and overwhelmed.
I could...

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Sally's stuffing eggrolls in the back room.
Filling them with beansprouts
in case they have a boom.

Hundreds of these eggrolls
piled high for later.

Boiled in an oil
for each and every crater.

Some will go behind the glass
warming in a pan;

shining in their dipping oil,
tempting for a span.

Placed upon a...

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One Brick At A Time

The boy shimmied like a determined squirrel 
upward stretching reaching 
for the ascending bricks of the chimney flue.

one brick at a time
one foot snugly ensconced 
in its leveraged place
and then another toe-hold there
as he sat atop the roof 
of the old...

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the barbed butterfly

she shimmied onto a barstool
looking for a nine to five reprieve
a fight or a night 
which ever came her way

black pencil skirt pulled up so far
jacket slung across the chair
says I don't care 
it's Friday.

g and t with a slice of lime
melts her...

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