I like shiny things
...I love chrome bumpers
Sequins on headbands
Rhinestones on sweaters
Colored gemstones that are polished
Confetti, glitter,
Anything ritzy, ditzy or sparky
I love shiny things
Could I be a crow?...
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Categories:
ritzy, humor,
Form: Free verse
Descent and ascent
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Written: November 22, 2024 For Contest, Sponsored by: Unseeking Seeker
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Line of inquiry:
“on an as is where is bas...
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Categories:
ritzy, analogy, confidence, humanity, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Addiction
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In this arid plain
of perennial drought,
as I stand transfixed
with vexations rising in my spirit
and sadness lying mute as a stone,
I discern, I am alone
with none to hold my han...
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Categories:
ritzy, addiction, angst, depression,
Form: Free verse
February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024
...February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024
I believed fortune cookie maxim
cryptic message couched
Apple Macbook Pro update process
alternately titled “markedly
a L...
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Categories:
ritzy, absence, abuse, adventure, allegory,
Form: Free verse
sassy brassy classy cat
...I put hot pink pajamas on my cat Scat.
She twists her tail, for she knows where she’s at
A sassy, brassy, classy, ritzy, ditzy, diamond cat.
worth all the trouble, said my cousin Pat.
For she i...
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Categories:
ritzy, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Monorhyme
you can never be too fancy
...you can never be too fancy for life
wearing pretty things takes away strife
you do not believe me? Ask my neighbors wife
She is as glitzy, ritzy and shiny as a brand new steak knife.
The bird w...
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Categories:
ritzy, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
new lava lamps
...The abandoned Mansion was once owned by the Adams Family.
They were doing a terrific business in their lumberyard at the time.
Day laborers who were not busy were sent over to build their home.
It...
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Categories:
ritzy, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised March 10th, 2024
...Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised March 10th, 2024...
(Any resemblance between the following humorous account and real life circumstance tis purely coincidental).
Went off fo...
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Categories:
ritzy, absence, adventure, confusion, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
A Terrace Full of Flowers For Our Anniversary
...Oh! No. I won’t wait until you’re seriously terminally sick
Or to expire in order to send you bouquets of ritzy flowers
Today is indeed the time, the hour to stand above the big brick
To show my l...
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Categories:
ritzy, anniversary, beauty, birthday, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Buying Into Small Town Rumors
...Morti Martha was from a bigger town
A glitzy town, a jazzy town, Las Vegas.
She had been a showgirl; is what I was told.
Not by her, but by many others.
She had visited our church once, and her...
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Categories:
ritzy, women,
Form: Free verse
Rin a Mor Ands Snazzy Jazzy House
...Some neighborhoods have to have your color pallet approved.
You can have gray, tan or light beige, but no snazzy colors that moved.
Oranges and reds are frowned on, and purples are put in a sad pla...
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Categories:
ritzy, house,
Form: Rhyme
Up Up the Fly Away Wig Doth Go Revisited and Revised April 19th, 2023
...Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised April 19th, 2023
IM pen named Pilot Jane A. Rug
who ascribes to writing poetry
as opportunistic, holistic, and cathartic
warming me body ele...
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Categories:
ritzy, absence, adventure, april, farewell,
Form: Rhyme
Bullingdon Boys
...The club recruits fresh people—in session plenary.
Of wealth, generosity, enthusiasm, and education.
Sang a Peppa Pig song when we looted the—treasury.
Bullingdon boys with elegant loo...
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Categories:
ritzy, allusion, anger, bereavement, character,
Form: Rhyme
Peppy Petals
...blooms
bouncy
baby’s breath
busy bee balm
ritzy rose, glitzy gloxinia
zany zinnia, dear ditzy daisy
swanky saffron
flouncy phlox
bonnie
buds...
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Categories:
ritzy, beauty, environment, flower, nature,
Form: Tetractys
Life Or Poetry
...I was never born a poet
But a pauper standing on a pulpit
Penning words in spring tide dings
Ritzy scribbling like trundling rings
Talons of my feet
Seething grounds I scratch and leet
Feathe...
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Categories:
ritzy, life, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form: Verse
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