Best Stodgy Poems
No Tickee, No Washee
...No tickee, no washee
You pay as you go
There are no free rides
As everyone knows
Yet some people try
Their gol' darn best
To beat the system
Get ahead of the rest
Like everyone else
They mus......
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Categories:
stodgy, journey, life, old, old,
Form:
Quatrain
Halloween Folly
...I’m a stodgy old lady with suddenly too much time on her hands.
I was always too work worn to make big Halloween plans...
But as I walked thru Walgreen’s to get my latest meds…
I came up the isl......
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Categories:
stodgy, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny,
Form:
Free verse
An Unlikely Romance
...Unlikely
this romance between
Miss Cricket
and stodgy
Buddy Biddle, so stagnant
set in his ways, stuck
While Cricket
eighty-nine years young
dances rings
around him
full of impish energy
......
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Categories:
stodgy, age, humor, humorous, people,
Form:
Shadorma
Older
...I will be blithe tonight.
The wind is high
I will walk alone beneath the sky
I will not let it happen, this tendency
To see oneself so righteous, so sober
The monotony of age overcoming
Rejecti......
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Categories:
stodgy, introspection
Form:
Free verse
If Only I Had One Day
...If I only had one day to live on earth's fragile dimension
I would pass by all fears that kept me standing like rock,
Dismissing stodgy impulses to win in a concrete contention
For my instincts to......
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Categories:
stodgy, death, faith, hope, inspirational,
Form:
Sonnet
Peacock Feathers and Paper Plates
...My wooden dappled rocking horse
Chomping at the bit
Eyes deranged with fearsome fire
Does make my stomach flit
And whilst we race
At perfect pace
Within the purple yonder
No time to sit on laurels de......
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Categories:
stodgy, adventure, angst, satire,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Pleasant Spring Like Day January 12th, 2020
...Pleasant spring like day January 12th, 2020
Courtesy climate change
(think global warming),
I would never wish to exchange
unseasonable temperature
way out of range
far to balmy, undoubtedly
......
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Categories:
stodgy, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Promise
...Waliking towards you with a smile on my face,
I promise in my life no one can take your place...
Looking at you with those twinkling eyes,
Within you my life lies...
With my head on your shou......
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Categories:
stodgy, chocolate, flower, love, rain,
Form:
Rhyme
Those Rebel Poets
...Remember all those rebel poets
and their bizarre ways
How they spooked their stodgy elders
with contra-poetic displays
Dispensing with meter and flow, accent and rhyme
penning ......
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Categories:
stodgy, confusion, image, metaphor, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Perverse Imp
...Estranged to a lonely room
Littered with trash and splattered gloom
Fettered and sentenced to early doom
Distressed and distraught to a sordid mood
Creeps and crawls and stalks at night
To mak......
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Categories:
stodgy, fantasynight, night,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 98
...The Council room, back on the fifth floor of the Keep, was quite busy upon their arrival. They stood just outside of the door waiting for the councilman to complete the business at hand not wanting ......
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Categories:
stodgy, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Limericks IX
...Limericks IX
Scratch-n-Sniff
by Michael R. Burch
The world’s first antinatalist limerick?
Life comes with a terrible catch:
It’s like starting a fire with a match.
Though the flames m......
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Categories:
stodgy, fire, giggle, humor, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
Bob Dylan Awarded Medal of Freedom
...I see you on stage, accepting your badge
Looking like time erased all definition
From your stodgy face
Sometimes I wonder if you realize
what you've done-
In interviews, always cagey
Mercurial like t......
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Categories:
stodgy, art, brother, time,
Form:
Free verse
Soliloquy
...Sigh
Someone say
Something
Sate my starving
Synaptic surges
That slowly but
Hopefully won't
Succumb to so
Stated selfless
Self-proclaimed
Salesmen and
Women
Selling
Subjectiv......
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Categories:
stodgy, christian, faith, inspirational, light,
Form:
Fibonacci
Poetry Is
...Poetry is an expression that should come from within
Unencumbered by stodgy rules that are meaningless to the masses
If as a poet you feel it important to follow the course developed by others
God......
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Categories:
stodgy, poetry,
Form:
Prose