- Friday Twirl - Weekend Humor -
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What a marvelous feeling
Turn on the dance switch
- still a flower in the bud
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Categories:
shag, dance, happiness, humor,
Form: Free verse
orange ginger twirl
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atop
a garden wall
striped marmalade throw
feline
lazy time
under sunshine
interlaced visions
a weaving
paws dangle in indolent ease
reach
underlay deep
whiskers sense sparro...
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Categories:
shag, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Supper at Sea
...Snapping it up with so much zeal
The shiny black shag with its slinky eel.
The sand eel squirmed and slipped back to the sea.
The shag said stop, please stay with me!
You want to eat me said th...
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Categories:
shag, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Alliteration
I Survived '75
...KEY - W: Will/Me - F: Friend - M: Mom
Thanksgiving week of '75, as a concurrent student earning multi-degrees from two campuses, and one off. I lived above the Uni, uphill, panicview Hilo ...
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Categories:
shag, 9th grade, angel, boy,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Spoiled Milk
...Funny/Bawdy Limerick
Spoiled Milk
The milk man and Sue like to shag.
"The milkman sure digs me," she'd brag.
Well the milk man delivered!
And Sue sure got the shivers!
But the milk on the p...
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Categories:
shag, fun, funny, humor, nonsense,
Form: Limerick
Cold Comforts
...Beyond the wave-sacked pebbles
lie the pockmarked dunes,
sea-wind swept heaps,
burrowed by the claws of scaly thrashers.
Here they huddle, the working class,
flogging grim pleasures,
wolfing ...
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Categories:
shag, poetry,
Form: Free verse
When is enough enough
...Have you ever had
A bag of potato chips
A glass of smoky wine
Halfway through
Wanting for more?
Have the rest of the bag
Drink the whole bottle
There’s wisdom in saturation
Joy in the overf...
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Categories:
shag, addiction, analogy, conflict, drink,
Form: Free verse
There Human To
...Hes ing homeless, you see him there don't ignore that starved groak glare,
You can see that he's got an empty cup in his hand he looks hungry and you're now aware,
He has no shirt on his back no s...
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Categories:
shag, addiction, angst, care, change,
Form: Free verse
Beg To See Leg With Peg
...when we would rehearse
shallow we had found our purse
things will become worse
we could comprehend
that rules will have to amend
prayers to God send
mouth started to sag
when he had been k...
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Categories:
shag, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Riverside
...part 2 of 2
8 No Love in the Heart of Town
Hot summer day
Fetty Wap heavy rotates
Done pretendin' to find a God charades
Besides feelin' not havin to try, nothin's changed
Jumped in 1 after...
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Categories:
shag, 11th grade, deep, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Shagalicious
...The slithered shadows trailed my shag rug, in the foothills of the upright weave of flaccid threads.
Seemingly chaotic, yet made out of pure design and memory: From the hands of its maker, rolled...
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Categories:
shag, fun, humanity, life, myth,
Form: Free verse
Nostalgia
...Remember stuck on
band-aid brand,
Because band-aid
is stuck on you?
Remember when
the furniture was
Made from wicker
and bamboo?
Remember three
on a bike with
the banana-seat.
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Categories:
shag, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Duper Woman
...I used to miss your touch, now your hands feel like claws
I used to melt in your stare, now your eyes come with bristles
I used to miss your shag and plaits, now you wear a tail of a horse
I...
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Categories:
shag, africa, age, feelings, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Lynette Loves the Seventies
...Lynette was attached to the ambiance of the seventies.
She had a shag rug with large loops and flecks of silver.
Bulb like globs floated in her six lava lamps.
She replaced her accelerator pedal w...
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Categories:
shag, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Up
...I once visited an old copper town
in the upper peninsula of Michigan.
The U.P. as the Yoopers say
And on the U.P. it winters from
October to April’s end
where saloons and
vacant churches p...
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Categories:
shag, depression, forgiveness, travel, winter,
Form: Free verse
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