A Flapper Works Here Now
...she is opinionated the man told me
with bobbed hair and showing every knee
innovative and daring in ways of the world
I saw her flapping, she was tossed and twirled
I wished I could be so wild,...
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Categories:
gams, women,
Form: Narrative
The Legs Are Last To Go
...Aunt Ruthie used to sing and dance
a jolly way to find romance
she said one thing that you should know
“The legs are last to go”
“The legs are last to go”
She’d sing...
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Categories:
gams, family, fun, humorous, life,
Form: Rhyme
Lambkin
...Shall I liken you to a leg of lamb?
You are more toothsome than marrow bone.
Though cuds do crop in Jersey cow and ram,
And all have great fondness for spam and prawn.
On winters cusp, hot roast ...
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Categories:
gams, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Kick Up Those Heels Woman
...So your world ain’t gardenias, or lightning bolts or honey
So you ain’t making a difference, and you’re long out of money.
So your day is gloomy, overcast, and your outlook is not sunny.
Kick up...
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Categories:
gams, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Swing That Skirt Grandma D
...She was lady of Charpay.
She dressed formally every day.
Most of us called her Great Grandma Doll.
At one time she had been a gangster’s moll.
Swing that skirt, Grandma D.
Flash those gams, an...
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Categories:
gams, character,
Form: Ballad
That Day In '73
...That Day In ‘73
That day in ‘73 was as clear and pristine as glass ice,
Torched by a brace of smitten souls falling in love.
There was no lush music to be heard in this duet,
No swiveling rhyth...
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Categories:
gams, cancer, memory,
Form: Free verse
Perfection of the Leg
...The representation of the leg
fall too short when compared
to attributes above the waist
or that region of booty fame
gams extending to the foot
both the curves and the straight
attribution o...
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Categories:
gams, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Night Shoes
...dance …
dance, the dragon
I watch intently, as if it taunts me
your perfect calf, its tattooed home
gams surround you on the
dance floor like a forest of velvet flesh
hopping, darting, sp...
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Categories:
gams, appreciation, body, dance, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Christmas Walk
...After the carols and the pageant
of the birth, we walk through the night
of Lexington to Suzanne and Fran’s.
The streets are darker since a giant
oak gave up the ghost and downed the li...
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Categories:
gams, christmas, friendship, prayer,
Form: Lyric
I Love Guns
...I love guns!
No. Wait.
Gams.
I meant gams.
I love gams!...
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Categories:
gams, funny, humor, nonsense, political,
Form: Burlesque
Word Quintet In C Major
...Word Quintet in C Major
By Stark Hunter
Open the door my friend,
Climb on in,
Join me here in this relentless caravan,
This unstoppable, this incontrovertible,
this inexorable movement,
T...
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Categories:
gams, desire,
Form: Blank verse
The Smallest Calf
...The Prince was wicked pertinacious,
picky to the 'nth' degree,
inclined to be quite perspicacious
when considering Number Three.
The first had sadly disappointed,
not come up to scratch, you s...
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Categories:
gams, writing,
Form: Quatrain
The Smallest Calf
...The Prince was extra pertinacious,
picky to the 'nth' degree,
inclined to be quite perspicacious
when considering Number Three.
The first had sadly disappointed,
not come up to scratch, you se...
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Categories:
gams, humorous,
Form: Quatrain
Gobsmacked Gams
...Splatter painted, Pollock blessed, leggy I stand,
among the green grass and healing Plantain
in a kaleidoscope of color panned.
A walking canvas in the meadowland
stems, humorously stippled to ...
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Categories:
gams, allegory, art, childhood,
Form: Terzanelle
Know Your Onions
...Talk the Talk and Walk the Walk
Know Your Onions
Hey there Big Cheese
I think you are the bee’s knees
Not a bluenose or a flat tire,
But, ooh hardboiled & too Oliver Twist to resist
Let...
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Categories:
gams, boyfriend, cool, funny, history,
Form: Free verse
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