The Stately Iris Flower
...The Stately Iris Flower
Bearded irises are tall and stately in form
They grow from rhizome sculptured leaves through a storm
Standing stiffly upright or curving at the tips
A swollen stem where...
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Categories:
flounces, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
White Cupcake Girl
...White cupcake girl was dressed up like a cake.
Her hair white as frosting, which she did not shake.
Her skirt looked like flounces, all white and round.
I knew that this girl must be heaven-bound....
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Categories:
flounces, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Don'T
..."I'm not a boy", my child announces.
"I've always been a girl."
And without hesitation I say
"That's wonderful!
I can curl you hair
and we'll plan a celebration
with flounces and flair -
go s...
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Categories:
flounces, daughter, for teens, growth,
Form: Rhyme
The Tango
...wow! hot sizzling steps
flourishes and flounces
she is in chiffon
where did he get the tuxedo?
he was never this debonair or polished when we dated
I stare, mesmerized...
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Categories:
flounces, dance,
Form: Free verse
Lucinda Is Ready To Party
...Lucinda dressed up in her fanciest bluest most satiny dress.
It had flounces and ruffles, creases that gave her a caress.
She was in her party finery, sitting still, waiting for her guest.
Her col...
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Categories:
flounces, dog,
Form: Rhyme
Mr Pepper Pot
...Now I’m Yorkshire peasant stock
I sup ale instead of drinking wine
And I tend to nosh my scranny
Not sit down proper and dine
There’s a restaurant down our street
Not really for the likes of m...
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Categories:
flounces, class, food, humor,
Form: Rhyme
The Candy Charge
...The pumpkin rolls eyes in the dark and bounces
along. It’s uncanny how candy flounces.
A boy in a hurry.
Sweet teeth, they should worry.
The dental charge - cavities by the ounces.
10/...
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Categories:
flounces, halloween,
Form: Limerick
Falling In Love With a Painting
...Have you seen cards gone wild?
What is it?
An art show
No. Is it good?
Is it ever!
I take my friend and she is enthralled.
Entranced, enthusiastic, excited.
I try to drag her out of there
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Categories:
flounces, art,
Form: Free verse
Nyla Has Style
...Nyla has a style all her own, she flings and flounces.
She whirls a truth others do not understand or know.
I am gob-smacked by her confidence and her determination
I know you do not get your fl...
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Categories:
flounces, fantasy,
Form: Prose Poetry
She Did This and She Did That
...She did this and she did that
I think she thought I think she thought
Do you have proof? I ask.
She gets angry and pouts now.
Well she said this and she said that.
They said she said.
They...
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Categories:
flounces, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Self Centered Diabolical Scarlet O'Hara
...Fiddle Dee Dee Scarlet says when asked to nap with the other girls
I want to party she argues, dancing with her feet, her hair in curls
She sneaks down to where the men are and takes Ashley off
Ex...
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Categories:
flounces, books,
Form: Rhyme
Persephone's Finger
...Persephone’s Finger
By Sy Roth
It wormed its way to the surface.
Pointy finger tested the air,
Wriggled in a sensuous Fatima dance
Etch-a-Sketching the crepuscular sky above,
Shaming the ...
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Categories:
flounces, angst, character, day, death,
Form: Free verse
April Flirts With Spring
...April first drives up in a new Lamborghini,
Everyone knows it is one of her foolish tricks
She will be driving a beat-up pickup farm truck
In thirty days, when time comes to start the planting.
A...
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Categories:
flounces, april, spring,
Form: Free verse
Mystery Woman Under That Hat
...Who is under that hat we wondered as she disembarked.
I had never seen such a contraption that was so not easily parked.
It was feathered and fluffed, with flounces that said United Nation.
Had a...
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Categories:
flounces, woman,
Form: Rhyme
New Beginnings
...N ow as I am gazing through the tunnel I see light
E ach day getting brighter before the darkness of the night
W ith spring around the corner she is bursting to ignite
B lossoms dressed in frill...
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Categories:
flounces, celebration, light, spring,
Form: Acrostic
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