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Flappers Poems - Poems about Flappers


Premium Member Nightingales Flappers
Can you believe this amazing crazy limit Nightingales flap their wings 60 times per minute Holy crap that's faster Faster than a hamster When needing to pee they perform like a gymnast...

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Categories: flappers, bird,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member A Honey Do List
How to replace the flapper chain? The spare toilets not flushing, so things remain. My master bathroom now has a slight drip. Do I need washers? Another Lowe's trip? I need to devise a maintenance plan or find myself a handy man. Luckily, I still have my ex, who comes to my rescue when I'm perplexed. His...

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Categories: flappers, relationship,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member We Would Be Known As Flappers
Years down the road we will be known as flappers In 1929 we are known as outrageous open hussies Shunned by the church-y women, loved by the nightclub crowd We are to be feared and adored, yin and yang, laugh at our frivolities. Play girls, fun-lovers, life enthusiasts, dancers, singers, swingers. We giggle and jiggle our way into your hearts,...

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Categories: flappers, nostalgia,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Nineteen Twenties and Flappers
Fringe on edge of a dancing flapper’s skirt Provocative and playful, enticing and tantalizing Encouraging other women To dare be more modern, Bob their head, dance in public Changing the world One woman at a time Who is willing to normalize bawdy Usually found in the bigger cities Two or three years Before they arrive in the small towns Maybe never arriving in the...

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Categories: flappers, history, woman, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Titillating Twenties
Flirting flappers Whipper snappers Prohibitions Big restrictions Legs are showing pearls are Swirling Charleston’s harking Lovers sparking Dancing Lindy With Miss Mindy Jitterbugging Afterwards hugging Raccoon coats Rowing boats Bathtub gin Fun never ends. ...

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Categories: flappers, dance, fashion, fun, imagery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Man With the Unflappable Flappers
I once met a man with ears so large That “Dumbo the Elephant” had less by far. Protruding outward from his head to the sky Way up to the clouds where the birds did fly Landing upon his outstretched sails Building their nests inside his furls. And so he lived with birds too many Hanging ‘round his ears a plenty With...

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Categories: flappers, humorous, people, people,
Form: Free verse

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