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Dowdy Poems - Poems about Dowdy
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Pumpernickle Please
...She was a rather bland woman Dowdy, dressed in tans and browns She did not share any history I did not know any of her towns She brought pumpernickel bread to work And shared it with me, along......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
dowdy,
food,
Form:
Rhyme
dowdy drab doris
...Doris was dowdy, drab, and draggle-tailed too Forever frumpy, frightened, a failure, at age thirty-two Jaundiced, juicy-gossipy, jealous, and July jailed Slovenly, slithery, shipwrecked, her momen......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
dowdy,
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
the big apple
...Friday in the big apple It is 17.53 in New York those who work at night are stirring drink coffee, shower and dress to look their best This as the multitude drive home for the week end ......
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Jan Hansen
Categories:
dowdy,
anniversary, appreciation, beautiful, courage,
Form:
Free verse
Tribute To Sheila
...Sheila was blowsy, frowsy, frumpish, dowdy. matching her unkempt messy, sloppy abode. gone to seed, meanies said in a nasty way. we kids saw through Sheila’s shabby drabness. she was entertaining......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
dowdy,
woman,
Form:
Free verse
Wave of Fantasy
...Let’s sail away to Acapella, A celebrity haunt owned by Penn and Teller. I shall act as your prince, you’ll be Cinderella When we’re sat on a beach in Acapella. It’s not as sexy as Cannes or as......
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John Davison
Categories:
dowdy,
celebrity, fantasy, guitar, imagination,
Form:
Narrative
New Gorgeous Teacher In Stilettos
...new teacher was gorgeous - tall, svelte, with bouncy hair the rest of us elementary teachers are in sneakers She breezed in dressed in six inch stilettos wait until she has to chase one of them we......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
dowdy,
humor, teacher,
Form:
Free verse
I Feel Bland Next To You
...Gorgeous red haired beauty in the colorful peacock dress. How dare you wear your shiny perky loveliness to my party. You have trumped all of us. Our frocks look dowdy and sad now. We look like ye......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
dowdy,
women,
Form:
Free verse
barn raiser
... some people think us rowdy we greet them with a howdy and once in our barn they get a tall yarn and some apple pan dowdy. ......
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Richard Breese
Categories:
dowdy,
autumn, community, farm, friendship,
Form:
Limerick
Kim Takes Full Credit
...Kim’s decorations for fall are always straight out of a magazine The rest of us visit her house and exclaim over her decisions. Her parents are decorators, and I believe they help her with this. S......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
dowdy,
women,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Spring Mischief
...Spring Mischief Lusty sunbeams twirl in tangos Gusty clouds in wild fandangos Rowdy windstorms dip and glide Dowdy mornings step aside Cloudy caches swing and sway Dowdy drizzles sent far awa......
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Sam Kauffman
Categories:
dowdy,
spring,
Form:
Rhyme
The Girls Were Middle School Mean
...The girls were middle school mean. They invited a dowdy dumpy frumpy girl named Jean. They told her she would have to wear a weird hat. The weirdest you can find, one that makes you phat. Jean ......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
dowdy,
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Luscious Wine
...A silken drop nectar refined, Delicious, smooth, it’s taste sublime, Worshipped and revered in times of old, Bacchus it’s God, his hand-maidens bold. The Romans swilled, the Greeks imbibed, Th......
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Dr. Robert Ippaso
Categories:
dowdy,
appreciation, drink, fun, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Do We Seek Joy Daily
...Joy is easily garnered Fostered and held dear But do we seek her daily? She prances past us on fat fairy toes Hoping to be engaged or summoned for a consult Yet we sit in dark areas, cloaked, ......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
dowdy,
joy,
Form:
Free verse
Postcards
...When I have visited a place I can go home and see its face. Every detail, every line reappears inside my mind. The small to largest part is engraved upon my heart. Museum, farm or fair, ......
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Janis Medders Tobechi
Categories:
dowdy,
memory, travel,
Form:
Quatrain
A Little Light To Shine
...In the shallow mist of morning On a dim and dowdy street A child with a hunger Has a moldy bite to eat A dirty-double dumpster Is a desperate dive indeed For a sad and sorry youngster With a......
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Bryan Norton
Categories:
dowdy,
child, inspirational, love,
Form:
Rhyme
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