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Best Trad Poems

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Premium Member Footle-Trad Jazz
hop,skip

jive trip

Note:Skip jive ,very popular on late fifties England,dance to 'trad' jazz bands...

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Categories: trad, music, nostalgia
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Poetry Trad and Modern
Whilst
Wordsworth
                       danced
 ...

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Categories: trad, poetry, writing,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Thirty-Two
from island corner, big Antrim lad
  to Belfast city, a tiny pad
  shattered windows, tilted clocks
  Goliath had lost his socks
 ...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trad, ireland, nonsense,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Footle-Dance Quaternion
TWIST AGAIN
disc-go
move slow
CHARLESTON
kick feet
off beat
TRAD JAZZ
hop skip
jive trip
SOLO EGO
line dance
per chance...

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Categories: trad, social
Form: Footle
Why You Hate Mi
Why you hate mi??

Why you hate mi and a god mi put first?
Bad mind mi, a Jesus broke the curse!! (2*) 

God inna mi life,...

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Categories: trad, faithlife, god, hate, god,
Form: Concrete



Premium Member Footle Dance May 20
TRAD JAZZ
hop skip
jive trip

NOTE:A footle is a two line ,2 syllable verse with an integral title-Light Poetic verse form,witty,pertinent,topical etc (technically a trochaic monometer and...

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Categories: trad, dance, word play,
Form: Footle
Premium Member Saturday Night -Nineteen-Fifties Style
Tea with Gran,her muffins supreme,
Bath and change and hair brylcreamed.
into town to the pub in the square, 
our gang always met there.
Checking the football scores...

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Categories: trad, nostalgia, places, social, teen,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Saturday Night 50's Style
Tea with Gran,her muffins supreme,
Bath and change and hair brylcreamed.
into town to the pub in the square, 
our gang always met there.
Checking the football scores...

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Categories: trad, nostalgia, youth,
Form: Rhyme
The Fair Youth Beauty
IN A NICK OF  TIME
IN LIFE'S HARSH REALITIES
THE FAIR YOUTH BEAUTY FADES
LIKE WITHERED GRASS IT'S GONE
WEAK,BROKEN,DEEP ASLEEP
NEVER TO AWAKE AGAIN.

ALL THAT REMAINS ARE MEMORIES
THAT...

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Categories: trad, beauty, destiny, for teens,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Clerihew Colyer
Ken Colyer&his 50's band
in dance halls across England
With hop skip&jive
he made 'trad jazz' come alive...

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Categories: trad, music, people,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Crazy Man Crazy
hair brylcreamed.
   into town 
       to the pub in the square, 
our gang always met there

trad jazz...

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Categories: trad, music,
Form: Bio
Hand Out
there's no other way
so that pass trad
try ing get it all free
thinking thats the key
no doudt
theyer for a 
HAND OUT...

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Categories: trad, confusion, depression,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Jukebox Jive
A swift half of cider in the Bodega bar
sadly none of us could afford a car.
Dropping a shilling in  the snug juke box
Haley and...

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Categories: trad, dance, music,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Sing It
Sing it Loud
Sing it Clear
Melodious Songs
Please the Ear
Sing it Trilly
Sing it Silly
Sing a Lullaby
To baby Billy
Sing it Alone
Sing it Together
Sing with Gusto
Giving Pleasure
Sing it Trad
Sing...

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Categories: trad, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pathways
Paths are foundations one have chosen. Our lives are similar to various music, beliefs, cultures, religions, relationships one writes the lyrics, We often rehearse, perform...

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Categories: trad, 12th grade, anxiety, character,
Form: Bio

Book: Reflection on the Important Things