Tess
Just now I’ve met somebody beaux,
whom I perceive to truly glow
—(oh! anxiety—oh! fitful fret!)—
Somemany beaux (just now I’ve met!)
has flicked a spark of gaiety
O’! Fitful fret! O’ Anxiety!
for outfits worn—For, mask and mark
of gaiety has flicked a spark
to illumine a free soul born
for mask and mark, for outfits worn,
and who’d begun “woman”.—Hu(man?):
A free soul
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Categories:
drag in, beauty, confidence, freedom, gender,
Form: Quatrain
Ribbit
Froggy went a courtin',
"Ribbit," he did sing,
altho' singing weren't his thing,
more like the punchline to a joke,
'Please don't smoke or I might croak.'
In the deep end of the pond
true love was his goal,
and by the dawn help to spawn
a few more tadpole souls.
Hopped on to a water lily
where he espied
a fine-looking froggy filly,
and in her
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Categories:
drag in, animal, fun, funny love,
Form: Rhyme
Henry Dresses in Drag to Paint Like Grandma
Henry was not a good painter at all
Until he channeled his Grandmother Gall
She made him dress in an imaginative way
Wearing her clothes and a hairbow gray
Henry’s paintings were suddenly very good
He began wearing Grandma’s sweatshirt and hood
So much better! His spirit guide said, guiding his hand.
He painted great but was the laugh of the land.
For
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Categories:
drag in, art,
Form: Rhyme
Drag Queen Theatrics
A drag queen caused quite a disruption
with her latest drag show production.
While she sang with aplomb,
the full show was a bomb.
That's why she's called Eva Destruction.
At the Elks Club, the men blow a gasket
when they see the act for the Grand Banquet.
Her singing is so fine
and her dance is divine.
She's a drag queen: Helena Handbasket.
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Categories:
drag in, humor,
Form: Limerick
Drag them with you
They took and took
Never looking to see if there would be anything left
That fire that once shown so bright
Nothing but a husk of an ember
Yet they continue to try taking
Nothing left but ashes
Still they take but now they choke
I’m nothing but dust now
But they choke
They cry
As tears run from their eyes
It seems they
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Categories:
drag in, abuse, anger, conflict, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Jolted
This is the saddest day of my life,
But the day dosen't know that, the sky is so blue and the sunshine so bright.
No one looks and nobody cares as I stumble my way through the hours,
Everything just continuously drags,
I don't eat I don't drink I am just here.
I fear the coming night and the dreams
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Categories:
drag in, anxiety, bereavement, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
Gravitational Drag
The store is a low-level spaceship
in a starless lot.
The sparsely parked cars
have leagues of loneliness between them.
No one comes or goes they merely slipstream
through a personal invisibility.
Beyond the gliding glow
of glass doors
the anchorless roam
between the high stacked
and glitter wrapped.
Anyone that matters in the daylight
is not here,
Then he sees her,
moons slung from each ear,
she with the
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Categories:
drag in, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Drag Queen
His life was a complete mess
His car was repossessed
He fixed his hair
And on a dare
Was a drag queen in a dress
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Categories:
drag in, art, dance, poetry,
Form: Limerick
Spoiled Milk
Funny/Bawdy Limerick
Spoiled Milk
The milk man and Sue like to shag.
"The milkman sure digs me," she'd brag.
Well the milk man delivered!
And Sue sure got the shivers!
But the milk on the porch went bad.
So, that night, when Sue's husband came back,
She knew he'd surely notice the lack.
"No milk with my tea?
Oh how can this be?",
Teased the milkman,
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Categories:
drag in, fun, funny, humor, nonsense,
Form: Limerick
When Long Days Drag On Me
When long days drag on me
And my soul cries in the dark
Then I speak my prayer in sleight
And He slips it into my jar.
Prithee – give it wings to fly up
Beyond to the sapphire throne –
Leaving me amidst where I am
Yet I
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Categories:
drag in, dark, god, jesus, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Ridin' Drag
When your ride’n drag through the swelterin’ heat,
and you've bout had all the dust one-man can eat.
When the sweat’s running down from collar to boot,
just forty miles gone on a hundred-mile route.
The ass end of cattle is all you can see,
and the smell is so strong it makes your nose bleed.
When the flies are biting
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Categories:
drag in, poems, poetry,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
It's a Drag
'It's a drag,' means it's not going well
'Queen of the drags,' one foot in hell
'They' preen and they prout, let it all hang out
'We're coming after your children,' they shout*
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*as reported by Fox News
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Categories:
drag in, celebration, child abuse, new
Form: Couplet
Drag
Once upon a haven
for now a heathen waif
once unified by craft
now a lowly execrate
for loving every neighbour
for flying a rainbow flag
for once upon a kinship
now pariah what a drag
***
Dedicated to all the poets
who have left for safer sites.
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Categories:
drag in, community, discrimination, poets, sad,
Form: Verse
My Feeling About Drag Queens
drag queens are exhilarating, exciting, expressive, enthusiastic
Their dexterous delightful minds discern society’s truths
There is an opulent mindset that allows extemporaneous joking
They are great at improvisation, their quips often impromptu.
They live in a world I can barely understand, yet I want to.
There is an honesty about them that makes them brilliant.
Their shows are effortless, smooth, freeing,
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Categories:
drag in, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Blank verse
My Son, the Drag Queen
My darling son's gonna be a drag queen
It's the easiest job he's ever seen
He'll work local libraries
Just like older blue faeries
And study for law boards in between scenes
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Categories:
drag in, career, education, work,
Form: Limerick
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