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Dowdy Poems - Poems about Dowdy

Premium Member 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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Categories: dowdy, food,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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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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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Categories: dowdy, anniversary, appreciation, beautiful, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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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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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Categories: dowdy, celebrity, fantasy, guitar, imagination,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member 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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Categories: dowdy, humor, teacher,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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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Categories: dowdy, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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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Categories: dowdy, autumn, community, farm, friendship,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member 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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Categories: dowdy, women,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member 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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Categories: dowdy, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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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Categories: dowdy, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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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Categories: dowdy, appreciation, drink, fun, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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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Categories: dowdy, joy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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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Categories: dowdy, memory, travel,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member 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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Categories: dowdy, child, inspirational, love,
Form: Rhyme

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