gaining weight wonder why
...feed me butter
give me pie
gaining weight?
I wonder why
Siting in a recliner
for one hour, now two
kicking off my instincts
Maybe three will do
Sitting sedentary
barely moving at all
br...
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Categories:
chintzy, food,
Form: Free verse
Chintzy with her Food
...On Hallows Eve Octobra always has a dance
Her feet are fancy in heels, to give a better prance
the rest of us sit around getting heavier yet
While she dances with her familiar, a kittenish pet
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Categories:
chintzy, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Nancy Drew
...After I read all of the Trixie Belden books I could find
My aunt Janice allowed me to read one of her Nancy Drew books
She had a book case filled with them.
She was chintzy with them, only allowed...
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Categories:
chintzy, books,
Form: Free verse
Chasing Moonbeams
...Folderol and balderdash,
nonsensical, sweet whimsy.
Musical, so airily,
she prances round the elm tree.
Mimsy do, in flimsy blue
with bells upon her head, ho!
Where she goes, I do not know,
ex...
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Categories:
chintzy, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Chintzy In Quincy
...A staid old art collector in Quincy
dotes on cats but with people is chintzy
He willed old shoes to his wife
and to his son a jackknife
His tabby got a Monet and Da Vinci
Written 2/13/22...
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Categories:
chintzy, humorous,
Form: Limerick
The Dumb Keyboard
...He saw it in one of those chintzy antique shops,
recalled that it was made for travelling musicians
that wanted to work out scores while not being overheard.
It was old and all wood. When he tap...
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Categories:
chintzy, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Dumb Keyboard
...I saw it in one of those chintzy antique shops.
I recalled that it was made for travelling musicians
that wanted to work out scores while not being overheard.
It was old and all wood. When I tap...
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Categories:
chintzy, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
A Million Dollars Yippee
...A million dollars!
Are you kidding me?
I would have been happy with a million cents,
A million fried shrimp, a million point on Allpoetry.
But a million dollars!
What?
You are not kidding, righ...
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Categories:
chintzy, funny, hilarious, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Privileges and Perks
...We're members of the Gardens;
We pay our yearly dues.
Their parking lot, though (15 bucks!)
We have to pay to use.
They toss in several passes
Each year when we renew,
But why make members pa...
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Categories:
chintzy, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
An Affair
...Distilled sun invades
to project on whitewashed screen their
chintzy-hotel love,
melding the serenading shades.
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Categories:
chintzy, dark, life, light, love,
Form: Verse
The Light
...Do you see the inner light of God
A love so powerful it could boiled all the oceans
Or are you blinded by earths man made
Chintzy trinkets, bulbs and string lights
Love...
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Categories:
chintzy, god, inspirational, love, spiritual,
Form: Light Verse
No Time Like the Present--Cliches Contest
...No Time Like The Present (Cliches Contest)
I need to get out of this place!
So very tired of everyone's bromidic rhetoric.
It's sickening...
The continuous chatter of a dramatic exis...
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Categories:
chintzy, anxiety, change, education, environment,
Form: Free verse
Do Dedicide To Think Upon
...Do Decide to Think Upon
Amongst your midst a great poet there now is
James Horn happens to be the name of his
Who other poets always love having around
Each poem often has left them spell-bound...
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Categories:
chintzy, allegory, analogy, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Golda and Goofus
...Golda and Goofus.
or how a young Baer lost his luncheon and found that man need not live by bread alone.
Deep, deep in a pine-wood...
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Categories:
chintzy, funny, , cute,
Form: I do not know?
Newness of Life
...In Spring young thoughts turn to fancy
life around us is renewed
ladies wearing gowns all chintzy
Do entice men with a curtsey
careful least it's a wedding bed
in Spring young thoughts turn to...
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Categories:
chintzy, love, men, spring, women,
Form: Villanelle
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