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Little Jimmy Short-Legs
...Little Jimmy Short-Legs took it in his stride that everybody called him “Little Jimmy Short-Legs” ‘cause he knew way down deep inside that his sturdy little legs were really, really short an......

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Categories: rakishly, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Rhapsody On a Theme By Gershwin
...The train to Boston goes clonkity dong, clonkity ding, and ever the handy hack Gershwin takes up the rhythm and makes it sing. Rhapsodic rhapsodies in jazz mode stomp among the carriage silverwar......

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Categories: rakishly, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Last Dance At the Late Show
...One lady waits for her long dead mother to visit, another, earnestly informs her husband that she is far too young to marry him. One guy stumbles up to a care-worker, his tongue drooling rakis......

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Categories: rakishly, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Graduation
...By ways ambitious, and efforts grand, your goals like tripods on rocky ground they never walked or wandered neither far nor wide. At times under stormless blue lit skies or rakishly brash, bleak ......

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Categories: rakishly, graduation,
Form: Verse
Bronwyn's Mate, Part I
...Bronwyn the Barbaric amassed admirers like oceans collect river-flow Streams of suitors all tried to woo her each determined to be her “best beau” But our fair pirate queen was a fickle young l......

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Categories: rakishly, animal, dog, fantasy, funny,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Hat Is a Personality
...A Hat is a Personality Tip it forward, graciously Angle it sideways, rakishly ~ Tilt its brim back, thoughtfully......

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Categories: rakishly, character, fashion, people,
Form: Personification
Est'Bel Strolls
...Urges ushered Est’bel out of her abode – a cottage cobbled together from cobwebs and clapboard – and she scuttled forth, her nesty hair tousled by a leaf-laced breeze In her bony hands she cl......

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Categories: rakishly, magic, moon, night, woman,
Form: Free verse
Miss Catherine's Grand Parlour
...A feeble old woman lives down the hall, we chat on occasion. I indulge her constant kvetching of youthful occupants invasion, since this erstwhile hotel's trendy loft conversion. Crook'd finger......

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Categories: rakishly, people, time, old, old,
Form: Rhyme

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