Happily Ever After
...Once upon a time long gone …
The reigning queen let out a yawn,
And stood up from her regal throne
To trample down the hall alone
She ripped the crown from out her hair
And flung it out the wi...
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Categories:
flounce, fantasy, goodbye, happiness, happy,
Form: Rhyme
Send your regards
..."By the squeaky old gate that tomorrow will find,"
kindness is a necessary handkerchief:
convex lips to meet mine with gentle understanding
words that tenderize as a snarling babe sedated by mothe...
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Categories:
flounce, appreciation, identity, life, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Waggers
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In cricket what is the definition of Stoic?
Who is the limited edition who debunks tradition
Who is the true rendition of heroic?
Pay heed to a rare breed from a special creed
The house...
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Categories:
flounce, sports,
Form: Free verse
A’Sway
...My whirligigs are spinning;
The trees are all a’sway.
The dafs, with blooms beginning,
Bow their heads in mock dismay.
The windsock strips are dancing;
The bushes are a’bounce,
The dogs on le...
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Categories:
flounce, spring, today,
Form: Rhyme
Wringing Out the Rain
...A squirrel got into the homestead,
it picked a lock with a dry thorn.
The smell of dank fur clung.
We carried small talk above our heads.
Nothing put away but still dangles.
Denim droops, snag...
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Categories:
flounce, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Treading Lightly Over a Dead Poet
...You flounce
as if you were an ostrich fan
all fluffed up on the page
waving at posterity.
I nibble at your chicken livers,
occasionally
swing from your bell-ringing images
that dare to delight...
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Categories:
flounce, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Betrayal in Whelm of the sea
...All around me, the ugliness and rays.
Those scrimshaw eyes, I’m dizzy with the haze.
My pulsepoint jumped, too cozy with our friend.
My arms and legs, in seesaw wave, betrays.
My husband gr...
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Categories:
flounce, sea,
Form: Rubaiyat
Unseaworthy
...Unseaworthy
I creak like an old ferry
coming in to meet the wharf
mindful of less agile passengers
but like a wayward skiff
my thoughts soon override the pier
bounce against its rails, vee...
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Categories:
flounce, age, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Her What - Bawdy Limerick
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There once was fat lady who liked to strut,
she liked to flirt, flounce and show off her butt;
to sashay in a square dance,
that was more stagger and prance . . .
fell on her back...
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Categories:
flounce, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Wedding Cake Beaver
...The wedding cake beaver with a cha cha cha
Down New Orleans way, danced the Mardi Gras.
We said “don’t tell us he’s coming this way, Ma.”
She nodded and said “Better tell your pa.”
When the wed...
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Categories:
flounce, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Tracery
...Bejeweled, in and out of the Gothic architecture,
Conceived by Abbot Suger, through a constant conjecture;
With perfect glasswork etched out of the then-time silica,
Found its place In Saint-Deni...
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Categories:
flounce, art, culture, gothic, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
How Do You Feel
...How do you feel
when you look to the skies..?
the cumulus inspired your innocent imagination
with playful marshmallow fantasies —
the sun peeked from behind
peony-puffs of airy white
to admir...
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Categories:
flounce, appreciation, feelings, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Consummating the Word
...CONSUMMATING THE WORD
In the beginning was
The Word
Consummating it is
becoming Wordless
I fly them through windows
onto tarred roads
where tyres tread them
into Earth’s crystal blue gem
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Categories:
flounce, identity, image, imagery, poetry,
Form: Imagism
Boy and Barn
...Bitty birds scuffle and flounce
under the roofed-in.
Barn dusted, rafters crust and whiffle.
Snuffle go the whiskered,
the mousy muzzle's
all along the bent beam wood.
A pepper powdering
in th...
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Categories:
flounce, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Listen, Listen Do
...The flop and flurry of wide, woozy wings
clatters over dawn hedgerows.
Claws scrabble, feathers flounce.
An ounce of twitters rebounds
into raucous sound.
Here a rowdy cackle,
here a coddled ...
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Categories:
flounce, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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