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Shimmied Poems - Poems about Shimmied

Red Shoes
...In a whimsical world of witty wonder, Where laughter lingers, lost not in thunder, There danced a dandy with a dapper flair, Sporting red shoes, a vivid vision, rare. He pranced in patterns,......

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Categories: shimmied, dance, funny, humorous, red,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Coming From Within a Rising Hedge
...Coming from within a rising hedge Of voluptuous white oleander – I sensed a turmoil; one writhe Seduced better than before And within the naked boughs Of some palo verde – in a rustle......

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Categories: shimmied, dance, earth, spring,
Form: Rhyme



Danseuse Divine - Part the First
...She slipped into the ballroom Shimmied across the floor Bobbed a graceful curtsy Slid quickly through the door Leaving some mixed reactions From all those gathered there First time they’d seen ......

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Categories: shimmied, adventure, appreciation, culture, dance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Liveliest Teenager At the Disco Ball
...She was the liveliest teenager at the disco ball hall. Her mushroom head hat made her sixteen feet tall. She shimmied and shook, and had a terrific time, a real ball. We could barely get her peele......

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Categories: shimmied, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Great Escape
...unhinged the rusty cage lock scooted into the attic shimmied down tree ran like wind......

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Categories: shimmied, 5th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Book of Kings - 1 Kings 16:31-33
...Ahab needed shore leave, And obsessed so on his dream, Harpooning some sweet harlot Had become his major theme. He was just a novice mariner, His first time far from home. He’d made his maid......

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Categories: shimmied, allegory, bible, humor, literature,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Dangerous Cargo - With Apologies To Hedy Lamarr
...She slithered from the jungle in a Vera Wang sarong Like some wicked juju temptress with no sense of right or wrong. I remember how it thrilled me, Oh yeah, when she shimmied in the buff; And t......

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Categories: shimmied, desire, sensual,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Chimera
...This magical fairy who paints my dreams Has blushed my fantasy in subtle hints That kissed dreamy night on the thrills of fall-- An amber delight on the hills hued brown I have known her long s......

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Categories: shimmied, fairy, fantasy,
Form: Blank verse
Zoom Party
...A Halloween party on Zoom Wouldn’t be too much fun, you’d assume But you would be dead wrong For I boogied along With my daughter in our living room. All the Zoomers wore costumes and danced ......

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Categories: shimmied, appreciation, dance, technology,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member One Long Last Look
...The moon shimmied up her pole in the sky Winking at me with her crescent eye The stars danced in time to a silent tune As the season ended that started in June O, one long last look at su......

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Categories: shimmied, autumn, longing, moon, night,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Thru Maritime Miles 3-A Very Pirate Seduction
...For merely a hunch or a hint of a kiss I nearly was lunch for a hit on a miss She shimmied for me in a short pirate skirt No army of men was a match for this flirt I started to flee in the face......

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Categories: shimmied, imagery, ocean, scary,
Form: Rhyme
I Want To Fall In Love
...I want to fall in love but not a chance. Not even one handsome man who can dance has shimmied his way across the dance floor. Hands up...I give up...no romance no more. I want to fall in love b......

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Categories: shimmied, desire, destiny, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member One Brick At a Time
...One Brick At A Time The boy shimmied like a determined squirrel upward stretching reaching for the ascending bricks of the chimney flue. one brick at a time one foot snugly ensconced in ......

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Categories: shimmied, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Exuberance At the Seventh Grade Dance
...With wild exuberance the new boy Danced his way across the gym floor. It was the seventh grade dance; no other guys were moving. They were mostly staring at the pretty girls who were dancing. He ......

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Categories: shimmied, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Wallet Weeps As Woebegone Former Mister Or Missus Snake
...Listen...carefully, and ye kin hear the muffled (dollar us - dolorous) sound ache king plaintive very loosely analogous to duck cry of mourning, didst awake ken to the somber news ......

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Categories: shimmied, bible, body, fate, loss,
Form: Free verse

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