Best Shimmies Poems

(Inspired by dance steps from a belly dancing class I once took!)

She rolls her pretty head from side to side
while, raised above her face, are...

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The millwheel will not turn again till spring
for Winter’s icy cold grip holds it firm.
She squeezes it like Her private plaything,
though Her crushing power is...

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Draped over the land like a ghostly shroud
a blanket of morning mist
morphs into rolling banks of fog,
soft as an eider-filled duvet.
Dawn rebukes night's claim to...

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Sitting on this roof,
seeing the colored lights in neighboring windows
finding frosted panes in abstract happiness,
as winter’s wind howls about my face

Speakers blare in cramping holiday...

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She Dances in Her Blue Dress

She stands beneath shimmering clear soft lights 
in subtle beauteous of elegance. 
A faint glimmer sparks in her eyes ignites...

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Hot chocolate hot chocolate I like it sweet, at Yule time I'll drink it then take a back seat 
beside the old tree where Santa...

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The glide of the plane almost in step with my rooftop.
Visibility of blue heaven low; lookout for earthwalkers.
My bland Toyota euphoric and banded by tight...

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On the plane I meditated or at least I tried to.  Most of the time I get a seat to myself.  These days...

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THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT

Outside snow is falling on the ground,
And the temperature is tumbling down,
It's that wonderful time of year,
When family and friends gather
To close out...

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Rushing through lusty August towards
A vault of blue, a longing promise.
It is like waiting for the visiting moon,
The day when the silver light shimmies past
My...

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Anti-Poem — “Snaking It To Venice”

(Poet’s Instruction: Play “The End” by the Doors loudly, while reading this anti-poem)

it’s you and me baby inside this gliding...

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The worst day
To ever sprout 
From the depths of Hade
Could not begin to express
How he made me feel.

Who would have guessed?
Sure,
He had follicles
That put even...

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Her sultry eyes make me quiver,
The way her skin feels, sends me to shiver;
How her dynamic curves bend straight through,
Helps create her attraction, with nothing...

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wind swishes the leaves
spring green shimmies and shakes
nature's belly dance...

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Swift spirited reindeers 
Slipped on the slick rooftop 
Santa plumpish chassis
Shimmies down the chimney
Soot prints on gifts under
Shimmering tinsel tree
Sneaks away in his sleigh


12/24/2016


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