Dactyl Poems | Examples

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Premium Member " Big Momma "

Higgledy-Giggled

Iron-spined advocate

Raised you with discipline 

Unyielding. 

Young mama rises in opposition 

Big Momma stood solid-

Tough love that felt mean

But-

Built one unbreakable.

Premium Member Out of Line

Out of line sometimes life's events don't always rhyme and if I hear hey bro the line is over here, um going to lose it, throw a fit and then maybe get inline.  In line out of line online all these lines still nothing straight.Lines-you going to make it, heard that line so many times it rhymes.you may not like it when I start cussing and again tell me sir you out of line..no worries today I will acknowledge that I am out of line no worries tomorrow I will get online, inline do rhyme cause yesterday I needed that.. I was   .  .  .

Premium Member The New Me


So now what, where do I go from here
I'm wandering around feeling a bit weird

People that I know don't know how to react
Thinking my spirits have finally cracked

Not so, I welcome this change of scene
Drinking more coffee, it's becoming routine

It's similar to finally stopping to smoke
After forty long years for fear that I'll croak

Well wish me luck, I need your support
Hope I don't go weird and begin to cavort

Wearing lots of makeup and leather that rocks
Playing air guitar with long flowing locks

If that starts to happen, I'll revert to the funnies
Hopping around like a pregnant bunny

Hang on a minute, I think that was funning
Well sneaky old me, how utterly cunning


Premium Member An Equestrian Tale


Pleased as punch this mother quite proud
Flips up her tail and neighing so loud

Her gait so lively, her head held high
A bright young mama, once a gleam in her eye

Unbridled spirit, feeling so grand
The spitting image of his dear old man

Romping through fields, free of reins
Thundering hoofs, flying mane

A frisky young colt like dad in his day
Who was quite a stud they were heard to say 

Then back to the barn when day is done
This spirited young colt was born to run

Resting for a while batteries recharged
Chomping at the bit, a spirit so large

Such unbridled youth, exuberance defined
This pesky young colt, it's his time to shine

Premium Member Wearing Just Socks


I know a young lady, her name is Kim
Whenever I see her, she makes my heart grin

They call her a doctor but to me she's a friend
Whatever my ailment she knows how to mend

With every new visit, my symptoms take flight
She knows how to soothe me to remedy my plight

After all these decades finally found a new doc
Who makes me feel comfortable wearing just socks

('twas I just wearing socks... not the doc) 

I'll gladly recommend her to everyone I know
My resistance to doctors I sure did outgrow

So next time I'm fevered or feeling some pain
Even though quite minor like a bump or a sprain

I'll make an appointment and really toute suite
Visiting Doctor Kimberly is surely a treat

She'll fix me up quickly she'll fix me up fine
Three cheers for Kimberly this new doc of mine

Premium Member A Happiness Sermon

Gloomy old Gus sure ain't my claim to fame
Upbeat and happy, they're both my middle names

There sure ain't no future in promoting ill will
Every morning the sun still peeks over the hill

There's enough negativity in the world to go round
So let's not encourage this scourge with a frown

You've only got one life to live then it's done
So let's be remembered for promoting good fun

It may seem quite difficult at times to achieve
But it's never too late if we all still believe

Things will be better for our kids and their kids
If we just put our trust in the joy in our midst

In this happiness sermon I'm trying my best
Some say you'll never succeed in your quest

But I say to these nay sayers, listen my friends
No one's invincible so laugh till the end


In Defense of Reason

Pickety, Snickety
Reason A. Goodwin is
using a lexicon
to check the word

Reason’s a champion
alphaclopediack.
Not ev’ry intern can
find what is heard.

Reason A. Goodwin, the editor of World Book Encyclopedia Dictionary, 
was paid good money as a judge on the original Password Game Show.
The first time he used his dictionary to look up a word - the producers
commented that we could have paid any 'staffer' to do that.

Dactyls and Elephants

Dactyls are metrical
Feet that are named after
Fingers with three little
Parts like the knuckles that
Lie in a pattern of
Stress like these sentences:

'Jealously murmuring
Elephants quietly
Sob in their handkerchiefs.'

Feet that are fingers -
How odd!

My work is my mirror



                   "you know even a mirror can speak but you can't hide what your emotions are because the mirror is a kind of silent killer of your age and death"

With love all 
OM Jagdish 
13:22
29 oc 2024

Premium Member Wobbly Legs


When I was younger and thought of old age
Thought we all became senile at this elderly stage

It appears I was wrong, I can still go potty
And able to dress this tired old body

Try as I might, I don't see very well
And my wobbly old legs are as shaky as hell

Sometimes my words come out like a squeak
Other times I whistle when trying to speak

Have a secret my young whipper snappers
It's as good as it gets except for my bladder

It seems to be constantly wanting attention
I don't have a problem with pee retention

So now that I've told you what to expect
I must tell you all it's as good as it gets

Enjoy your youth cause it's downhill from here 
You'll soon be old and decrepit I fear

Mesmerizes

Mesmerizes

Holly Dolly
Mesmerizes me 
Ahead her work
Calls Me

Proofs her love
Not for me
But for hersake
Abandoning Romance

Deceitful Tongues

Rabasha Kabasha
Old Prophet Noadiah
Rifling society
Lying to God

Judgement shall fall on thee
Incomprehensibly
Thou art an enemy
One to the Lord

Premium Member Van Helsing

Wig-wam
Gabriel Van Helsing
came so great like
a speeding arrow,

never comes late
under call as
megalomaniac
and charging sparrow.

Politics and Pulchritude

Higgledy-Piggledy
Forty-fifth president
Some think him marvelous;
Others a jerk.

Chasm political
Breached by consensus, his
Cosmetological
Routine needs work.

Premium Member Sir Edmund Hillary

Skillary Spillary
Sir Edmund Hillary
Climber, Philanthropist
First up Mount Everest
Liked to keep bees

New Zealand juvenile
High-altitudinal
Knighted in fifty three
Maintained humility
Loved Nepalese

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