Impishness Poems | Examples


Premium Member My Blue Dress Is Not a Fashion Statement

With inspiration born from noted malcontent
I composed, dismayed at the reason to vent
In defense of poets, I am inclined to defend
I'll wear a blue dress to commend, not offend

I've been waiting for an auspicious occasion
Putting it on took not a smidge of persuasion
for there is a cause requiring a special dress
a situation with which you may acquiesce

It's been hanging in my closet for over a year
Perhaps a titch too tight and much too sheer
Not the kind of thing I often wear, I confess
Not a fashion statement; my symbolic dress

Garbed in blue silk, my sentiments are divided 
for innocence and impishness have dually collided
I'm championing those who were rudely slighted
and call "foul" to the action of being shortsighted

After discovering the facts, I cried, "Oh, my gosh!
What poppycock is this disrespectful pish posh?"
No poet should be subjected to such degrading
It's never kind to disparage in a public upbraiding

I had no plan to wear a garment of blue, and yet
I've zipped it without a smattering of regret
to give a thumbs up to poets who were spurned
by an insulting rebuke that none of them earned
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member How To Make a Man

Take a little bit of sugar,
And a little bit of spice,
A double hand of impishness,
And a bucket of love times thrice.

Mix it all together,
Add curiosity,
And a little bit of stubborn,
Mixed with propensity.

To fudge a little now and then,
When asked what he's about,
And look up with angelic face,
Whenever he's found out.

Wrap him up and cuddle him,
And keep him safe and warm,
Until he rises up full grown,
To stand life's calms and storms.

Teach him to be humble,
Teach him to be brave,
And most important of it all,
Teach him how to pray.
men
Form: Quatrain


Ten Commandments

Thou art enjoined to enjoyment,
Exhorted to exultation.
Thy responsibility is to be responsive,
and impishness be thy imperative.


So cherish thy good cheer, 
And be not judicious in jubilation –  
Rather exude exuberance,
For to revel is a revelation, and
It is on pain of death that 
That thou art commanded to Live!

Premium Member How To Make a Man

HOW TO MAKE A MAN

Take a little bit of sugar,
and a little bit of spice,
A double hand of impishness,
And a bucket of love, times thrice.

Mix it all together,
Add curiosity,
And a little bit of stubborn,
Mixed with propensity,

To fudge a little now and then,
When asked what he's about,
And look up with angelic face,
Whenever he's found out.

Wrap him up and cuddle him,
And keep him safe and warm,
Until he rises up full grown,
To stand life's calms and storms.

Teach him to be humble,
Teach him to be brave,
And most important of it all,
Teach him how to pray.

                                                Judy Ball

"BUT JESUS SAID,'SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN TO COME UNTO ME AND DO NOT 
HINDER THEM, FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN BELONGS TO SUCH AS THESE."
                                                                                              Matthew 19:14
Form: Quatrain

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