she was outrageously glitzy and gaudy
...She was purposefully brazen, garish and flashy
Daughter of Lee, who owned a haberdashery
Her outfits were razzle dazzle, glaringly loud
That’s my daughter, her daddy bragged to the crowd
People...
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Categories:
haberdashery, women,
Form: Rhyme
Away In a Haberdashery
...Away in a haberdashery,
No hat for me head,
Groom’s attire is needed
For me to be wed
Many months did me have
To find fitting apparel,
That there’s nothing me size,
Has me over a barrel
M...
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Categories:
haberdashery, anxiety, clothes, wedding,
Form: Verse
For Fishery In the Tertiary
...Bruno enrolls in the tertiary
For a full program in Fishery.
Dad had judged his first course treachery
Or Bruno risking self trickery...
In their lusty town much revelry,
In which fish faces n...
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Categories:
haberdashery, devotion, education, inspiration, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Country Squire
...A fine country squire name of Zachary,
Made a fortune in his haberdashery.
The ladies and gents,
Put out a fair pence,
In return for the good squire's advisory.
He fancied a dowager lady,
Kno...
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Categories:
haberdashery, funny,
Form: Limerick
Underdog Fairytale
...In believing you have misconstrued what this was and what was meant for you and the part you've played in the time you've stayed..
The hunter became the huntress the prey seized the day .. It i...
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Categories:
haberdashery, confidence, emotions, how i
Form: Rhyme
An Unperturbed Mind
...When you sort decades of electric cables from that box hidden away
It reminds of disentangling neurons haphazardly fired at random
It’s a beautiful day and you’re in it among sea saw and hamme...
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Categories:
haberdashery, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Top Hat
...A toast.......
Of elegant swagger
From a "cocked" tail
On all four legs
With moves of
Fred Astaire, he graces
Your attention with
Haughty green eyes and a black satin jacket
Hi skits........
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Categories:
haberdashery, animal, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Canine Haberdashery
...dogs in hats and coats
tormented by the squirrels
chattering critiques
John G. Lawless
©11/4/2018...
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Categories:
haberdashery, animal, bullying, clothes, culture,
Form: Senryu
Awakening
...In ancient looms of my homeland,
Fairies once shuttled across threads of rainbows
Weaving folklores of gods and goddesses.
Our tapestry needed no haberdashery of
Brabubahanas and Chitrngadas or...
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Categories:
haberdashery, 6th grade, abortion, absence,
Form: ABC
Cheese Bread
...Cheese bread's delicious but has tons of calories
Also might require a change in my haberdashery
D'ya hear what I'm saying
Yummy but waistline paying
Probably balloon up, take up the whol...
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Categories:
haberdashery, food,
Form: Limerick
The Queens Bed
...The Queens Bed
There's a certain symmetry in mis-shapes
A Correlation of zig zags
A pyramid of Mish mashery
Of Golden haberdashery
A prism geometry forgot
Disfunctional patterns
Of a ...
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Categories:
haberdashery, fun, hilarious, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Unsatisfied of Others
...Great girdle! She cried.
What happenstance have we happened upon?
Have the two nitwits knocked themselves silly with hammers?
What is the sensitivity they seek so?
She heaves humbly a sigh sumpt...
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Categories:
haberdashery, absence, allegory, angst,
Form: Bio
Dickensian Time
...In Dickensian time
Upon sunset hour
Overshadowing Thames
Is London Tower
Blackened cobble streets
Shimmer in the rain
Big Ben at Westminster
Chimes an eight bells refrain
At Euston Station...
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Categories:
haberdashery, places,
Form: Free verse
Ciggys Day Out
...Ciggy’s day out this is just another normal walk but where shall I go to the haberdashery or to the local library on this wonderful February day. I think I will start at the library and look for a bo...
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Categories:
haberdashery, art, friendship, imagination, introspection,
Form: Acrostic
My Frightful Steel Bonnet
...My frightful steel helmet is so battered, dinged and frayed
It was issued by the Air Force - not a haberdashery store
I don't suppose it would look very proper in an Easter Parade
But it sure did ...
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Categories:
haberdashery, funnyeaster,
Form: Quintain (English)
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