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Flounces Poems - Poems about Flounces

Premium MemberThe 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

Premium MemberWhite 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

Premium MemberThe 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

Premium MemberLucinda 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

Premium MemberThe 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

Premium MemberFalling 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

Premium MemberNyla 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

Premium MemberShe 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

Premium MemberSelf 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

Premium MemberApril 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

Premium MemberMystery 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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