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Fiddly Poems - Poems about Fiddly

Premium MemberWashing and Drying Up

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Each night after the evening meal
there was never a discussion
as to who would wash the dishes
and who would do the drying up.
My mother was the washer,
my sister and I did the drying up.

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Categories: fiddly, memory, mum, sister,
Form: Free verse

ELEPHANT WOMAN

...{ emo music inspired poem }

ELEPHANT WOMAN 

She is Elephant Woman 
you cannot hide from her
in houses of brick or glass or 
lined velvet curtains
whether it sits o...
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Categories: fiddly, allegory, character, courage, dance,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberRespect

...We live and die completely
In the material world
It would be rather fiddly 
To emulate a Phoenix bird
Our ashes can’t be bothered
Inside their marble urns
No point in fire hazard
Cause we’re a...
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Categories: fiddly, memory, mystery, religious,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTaste Less

...Fiddly dee, fiddly dum
I love blowing bubbles
With my bubble gum
I chew and chew until it has lost its taste
Then give it to you so it won't waste,
The bubbles left in my bubble gum....
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Categories: fiddly, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Memberconcocting a youth potion

...I shall do a dish and a dash and a ha ha ha
making myself young, so fiddly fah lah lah
so saying, the old witch gave a loud gaffaw
her cauldron boiled and bubbled next to her bra

I pretend to c...
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Categories: fiddly, halloween,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberCandelabra Ghost

...candelabra ghost did a cha cha cha
He had the whole mansion to himself
Fiddly dee, fiddly whimsical mccaw
he grabbed two candelabras down from the shelf

It was heavy, sure, but looked great whe...
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Categories: fiddly, halloween,
Form: Rhyme

The Greenhouse - a True Story

...I have a little greenhouse
It sits wobbly on the hill
Constructed from a kitset
Requiring monumental skill

A 40 page instruction book
Said it was a simple task to do
But I was not convinced
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Categories: fiddly, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Disappointment At the Shoe Store

...I go knowing exactly what I want
I am particular in my liking
Shoes must be comfortable to wear
For both dancing and for hiking

I know they say they flatter
But stilettos are not my fave
Let’...
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Categories: fiddly, humor,
Form: Rhyme

When I Threw the Unhandy Gloves Away

...When I threw the wee unhandy gloves away, 
The smiling little cold hands watched the display,
And the clock struck ‘high five’ and chimed ‘hooray’ 

Putting gloves on small hand...
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Categories: fiddly, humor,
Form: Villanelle

Tinselry

...Varying tactics to deftest tongues, 
I find it a futile taxing of tired lungs; 
She hears finer tropes with disdain, 
And loves lips that deal daring pain.

For fibs she sworn truths exchanged; ...
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Categories: fiddly, allegory, allusion, discrimination, wedding,
Form: Ode

Alliteration On a Therapist's Treatment

...ALLITERATION
ON A THERAPIST’S TREATMENT

To physically fit my fickle frame
I found the fame of the following dame:
  From sit to somewhat surely stand
I can, when I concur with her command.

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Categories: fiddly, humor, word play, words,
Form: Light Verse

Stuffed Toys and Boardgames

...Stuffed Toys And Boardgames 

A tinker mending 
     clockwork trains
And other broken things, 

Peered over his 
     wiry spectacles 
Scrutinising unwound springs.

Between the jars 
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Categories: fiddly, childhood, irony, mother son,
Form: Rhyme

I Set Off On An Ambitious Journey

...I set off on an ambitious journey;
Several years gone I embarked on a travel
To a beautiful destination miles away,
And I did not know the paths very well.

I thought it would take a year or two...
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Categories: fiddly, loss,
Form: Verse

Johnny Knuckleblaster and the Fish

...Jhonny Knuckleblaster 
dum diddly did,
go further
on doddly down
the crick
than his durn daddy had
ever before

He fiddly middly found
a fine finny fish
big as a wish
larger, larger, large...
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Categories: fiddly, fun,
Form: Rhyme

Tribute To a Friend

...Liberty's tree is reeling drunk indeed
upon the life of saints and patriots alike
though I speak of a hit and run strike
men are crushed in her wine press of need

Why did she pluck such a good ...
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Categories: fiddly, africa, anger, death of
Form: Rhyme

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