The Lion Dance
The heavy drums roar
The light cymbals strike
The men hide inside the lion prop
The lion dances lively
The clown in front fans challengingly
The lion moves swiftly
The lion rolls smoothly
Suddenly the lion jumps into the air
For the lettuce and the red packet Hung high at the door
The lion dance will usher in
Luck and fortune
In an enlightening and
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Categories:
prop, blessing, culture, dance, food,
Form: Free verse
Love Is My Prop
Love is my Prop
I've fallen in love with a four wheeled prop
And I am walking along with a bop
I thought long and hard
Now it's my safeguard
Together we make a gruesome bellhop.
I wondered maybe it'd make me look old
But then perhaps I am old, all things told
I feel quite sprightly
Now stand uprightly
Things have improved a
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Categories:
prop, encouraging, inspirational,
Form: Limerick
Fort Prop G Company
Vnimaniye!
Attention!
Ten campaign soldiers
marching in a straight line
One took a sound byte mine misstep,
then there were only nine
Nine loyal watchmen
guarding the golden Tower gate
One fell asleep and plummeted to the ground,
dereliction of duty gave an even eight
Eight secret cell spies,
set to activate in hour eleven
One wasn’t synchronized,
the troops were now down to seven
Seven full metal jackets
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Categories:
prop, allusion, corruption, metaphor, political,
Form: Burlesque
How Else Do We Prop a Leaning Tower
How else do we prop a leaning tower?
Pull it down? Root and roof and all
falling, crush roaches and rodents—
aliens without a fatherland.
Leeches and suckers, they're. Carriers
of malaria, bloated tummies, fire red.
Hawks and vultures, hovering for carcass;
babblers, shrinking common coffers
with glee till the tower crumbles;
till they turn dumb. A
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Categories:
prop, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Don'T Be a Prop
don't just there
be awhere
show you care
be aware
that your jobs is odds
that it s your crop
DON''T BE JUST A
PROP
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Categories:
prop, adventure, inspirational,
Form: Light Verse