Jitterbugging Poems

Get out of my head mister chatterbox

...Get out of my head mister chatterbox!

Ransacking treasure trove 
of maximum headroom.

To remedy a fate worse than death
or orange hair oaf becoming 
forty seventh president
or contracting o...
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Categories: jitterbugging, abuse, anger, bullying, crazy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Sincere Distrust of Figs

...In every apple, an atom resides; 
in every Adam, an apple abides. 

So it goes and goes, apples 
toppling off tables in rhythmic waves, 

falling through slits, convincing themselves 
they are...
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Categories: jitterbugging, fruit,
Form: Ekphrasis


Ongepatshket Torqued Skewed Reflection

...Ongepatshket torqued skewed reflection

drawn courtesy lots of byte size chalk.

When e'er I summon fat chance
to empower me self with courage 
and steal a passing glance
in the mirror then in...
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Categories: jitterbugging, 12th grade, adventure, america,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHop It

...Fred frog would a dancing go,
With his best friend Bob's girlfriend Flo,
Flo went to all the dances
Where all the male frogs she entrances
She knew how to bebop
And she and Fred danced a lot
Po...
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Categories: jitterbugging, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFrog Hoppers Dance

...Frog hoppers dance by the brilliant light of the moon.
The jitterbugging is lively and some of them swoon.
Two get carried away. One of them tries to spoon.
The other frog pushes her away, as he d...
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Categories: jitterbugging, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberCdefghij Poem

...Curiously creative critters crowded confused Crystal
Deliberately demanding diverse diagrams during depression
Eliciting extra enthusiastic energy entertaining elves 
Formulating fresh flippant fl...
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Categories: jitterbugging, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: ABC

Premium MemberProdigal Moon

...Alabaster moon
prodigal with pearlescent promises,
extravagant assurances,
pretends to symbolize
jazzy moon-in-June romance
for young lovers.
Gibbous guitarist plucks out honeyed
heart-string ...
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Categories: jitterbugging, love, moon,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDancing With the Blues

...We’re dancing with the blues, a twilight silent musical,
But it’s a fine soiree; a low rent way to have it all.
We’ll close our eyes and hum a tune, it’s one we’ll just make up,
And dub step till ...
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Categories: jitterbugging, allegory, blue, dance,
Form: Lyric

While Skeptic Attempts To Comprehend the Legacy of Jonathan Edwards

...Alternately titled: Get out of my head mister chatterbox!

While inside me noggin legions
of monstrous demons abhor
protest being force fed
arcane and obscure
assaying into religious dogma
hen...
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Categories: jitterbugging, 12th grade, america, creation,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberJazz - Pleiades

...Jamming geniuses - Wow!

                  Jitterbugging soul feels

        joyous, with not a care!

                          Jovial Satchmo swings,

            Joe Pass, Ella, Miles, Bir...
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Categories: jitterbugging, happiness, music,
Form: Pleiades

Premium MemberTitillating Twenties

...Flirting flappers
Whipper snappers

Prohibitions
Big restrictions

Legs are showing
pearls are Swirling

Charleston’s harking
Lovers sparking

Dancing Lindy
With Miss Mindy

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Categories: jitterbugging, dance, fashion, fun, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Get Out of My Head Mister Chatterbox

...Get Out Of My Head Mister Chatterbox!

Upon prima facie first blush
me mind's eye all atwitter,
sans long forgotten
"FAKE" sexual exploits
set mum (chrysos anthem) all aglitter,

boot like sh...
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Categories: jitterbugging, addiction, anger, assonance, grief,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberIntergalactic Love Story

...It was no cosmic coincidence that a persnickety intergalactic wise guy named Hub
with an arrogant swagger morphed into the center of a crowded  fast-moving Harlem jazz club 
on February 11th, 1933 ...
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Categories: jitterbugging, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme

My Changed Body Morphology

...Incrementally corporeal essence, here
to fore i.e. figurative spear
tire of mine, doth elicit despair
daily appall, thus I air
part tickle laurel lei objection
     able bane, cuz this tear
rub...
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Categories: jitterbugging, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberJay, Jay, Jay, Jay, Jay, Jay, J

...Jovial Joyful Jolly jubilant J.
Jabbery, jitterbugging joyful jay
Jeepers, J, jibing and jiving, jollifying,
French Jay, Joie de vivre, joy of living
Jupiter’s Juturna could not have been here wi...
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Categories: jitterbugging, word play,
Form: Free verse

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