Southee serenade
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Foppish fringe flutters..pianist tendrils tinkling..
Flitter finessing leathery fruits..
Caressing..stitched dreams tickled & tailored..
Swing..swerve in clandestine cahoots…
Curve…vo...
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Categories:
foppish, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Critterature: A Zebraic Conundrum
......or Yipes! Stripes!
The zebra lives in Africa
On the plains of the Serengeti.
Though often foppish and vain,
He doesn't complain
'bout his place in the alphabet.
He leads a fairly innocuous...
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Categories:
foppish, animal, humor,
Form: Light Verse
The Fs Have It
...fondue's folksy fiendish foolish fiery Phoebe
fondly followed foppish fish foraging fibster Fee
ferocious foggy falls focus folklore fancy-free
fifty-fifty finnish fish foisted fiddle faddle fanta...
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Categories:
foppish, word play,
Form: Alliteration
On the Salutations of Ginsberg To Pessoa and Pessoa's Alvaro To Whitman
...Every time I read Pessoa I think
I'm better than he is
Salutations to Fernando Pessoa-Alan Ginsberg
Me, the monocled one, with my foppish belted waistcoat,
I'm not unworthy of ...
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Categories:
foppish, appreciation, poetry, tribute, word
Form: Free verse
Should the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 1, Part 6
...The curtain rises on Bumblebee Babineaux walking self-confidently along Chartres Street.
Bumblebee [singing]: Ain’t nothin’ gonna break my stride, nobody’s gonna slow me down. Oh, no, I got to kee...
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Categories:
foppish, allegory,
Form: Prose
We Have Had Enough Fires
...
A summer’s morn, dark skies, forlorn.
Burning, smoking, California cities, this August morn,
Our state with illegal, infected people overrun.
We think the virus is just plain fun?
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Categories:
foppish, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Oh, I Forgot
...I forgot I belonged to God.
He is my only Master, not worldly
foppish clowns.
My allegiance, to no human is owed.
Just to Him, who gave me life and an
eternal soul.
Can people harm me, oh yes...
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Categories:
foppish, god,
Form: Rhyme
Beau Ideal
...Nectared graces overwhelming must
Underline your pulse-halting charms;
Utopian opal spelt by honeyed terms,
Resistless pearl cased in mortal dust.
Fair-miened nymphs kings did melt;
But such...
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Categories:
foppish, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Feasting On Poetry Ultimate Delicacy
...Today’s poem is a juicy pork chop
The next one that skates by is a foppish cod fish
Each delicacy and dessert separate in their own way
Living their own truths.
Yesterday’s poems were chocked w...
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Categories:
foppish, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Frantically Fruitful Freshly Free
...Fruitful faeries flying freshly frightenly faraway
Flashing flea-bitten furry fireflies fantasy fey,
Faux flash-dancing flowery figs flowing flippantly free,
Ferocious fierce foursome fruit-flies ...
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Categories:
foppish, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Alliteration
In Me I'M
...in love
the foamy wave kisses
the wide breast of beach
for the wave of extreme youth,
ravenous crow is a beauty
for the rainy season
rivers walk showing her virginity
a lie is a truthful...
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Categories:
foppish, introspection, love, self,
Form: Free verse
You
...Me for you, your foppish dandy,
And me to listen, as you talk.
But I do doubt, I’ll be handy,
Even to take you, for a walk.
Why love for me, you say you’ll give,
But mine for you, is st...
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Categories:
foppish, feelings, life, nonsense, simple,
Form: Rhyme
Aware of Ripe Palm
...Thirst for shadow in the scorching summer
Ripe palm fruit calling new foppish eater
Crows flying and sitting,
Making nest in twig's bin
Passing by this tree, bald man in full fear!
-May ...
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Categories:
foppish, fun,
Form: Limerick
Affability and Amiability In Your Agility
...Wear no long face
When storms rage in your space
Flying and crying you out of place
If you do
Like a cow you’ll moo
Shooting and hooting at the crew
You claim to train
With foibles you ca...
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Categories:
foppish, poems,
Form: Free verse
We Feel Real When We Steal Our Last Breath
...Drown not in yummy yesterdays, seize the breeze of today
While intuitive initiatives aplenty beg to be taken
Into your stride if only ears and eyes should every Saturday
Strive to debunk myths o...
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Categories:
foppish, poems,
Form: Terzanelle
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