Short Dowdy Poems

So I wrote a poem
About the miracle of life
And posted it quite proudly
However naming it
Life Insurance
I fear the soup finds dowdy...

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some people think us rowdy

we greet them with a howdy

and once in our barn

they get a tall yarn

and some apple pan dowdy.
...

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Mating Season


flashing bright plumage, peacock attracts mate
dowdy, brown peahen quivers...
monsoon rains on the way

06-07-2014


Contest:      Any Poem Under 15 lines #2
Sponsor:     Poet Destroyer A
Placement:  8th...

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Along the path, I think of you.
Along the trees of gray.
And too, I think, it's good I do.
Within this shadow play.
Where sunlight's but a peekaboo,
The waters pigged a Prussian blue,
And the empty seat that misses you,
In my dowdy cabriolet.

s.d. Long {Inspired by a push by Suz-D to write another poem.}...

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My almond tree is prettier than your almond tree.
It sure is! Wow! It is gorgeous!
Pause to regroup.  
My porch steps are glamorous; yours are drab and dowdy.
I cannot argue with this.
Pause to regroup.
My daddy’s taller than your daddy.
Who is my Daddy?
Don’t you know?
No. Do you?
Conversation takes a whole new turn....

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Spring Mischief

Lusty sunbeams twirl in tangos
Gusty clouds in wild fandangos
Rowdy windstorms dip and glide
Dowdy mornings step aside
Cloudy caches swing and sway
Dowdy drizzles sent far away
The sharp air softens then sings
A wink, a smile – mischief of spring.

4-29-22
Contest: Spring Rhyme 8-12 Lines 
Sponsor: Tania Kitchen...

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Sheila was blowsy, frowsy, frumpish, dowdy.
matching her unkempt messy, sloppy abode.
gone to seed, meanies said in a nasty way.
we kids saw through Sheila’s shabby drabness.
she was entertaining and fun, and she liked children.
best of all, she had a good heart and terrific stories.
meanies could not even dream of this personality for themselves....

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My brother reprobator and oedipus.
Nimble selictor, nisus impersonale muss.
Improvidence, goggle eyed or irrational,
Instigate inane dowdy, kinsfolk isolate fuss.
Paramour or inamorato objurgate carlish,
Impune contrivance, obfuscate gobble tush.
A partner inauspicious or inartificial indigent,
Not same as before lumber or lurcher hiss.
Irremissible offence fidget formidable lead,
My parents exaggerate emotions I ever miss....

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I don’t have a favourite,
I love them all
Shorty and sporty
Petite and tall

Dowdy and flashy
High and mighty
Shy and vivacious
Safe and flighty 

I love Juicy Lucy
Smelly Kelly,
Scraggy Maggie
And Silly Millie

I love Gay Mei
And Straight Kate
Spotty Dotty
And Plain Jane’s great

So is Jolly Molly
Clingy thingy
Obese Louise
And Skinny Ginny 

I love Boozey Suzie
Sweaty Betty and all 
I love them long,
I love them short, I love them tall...

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Juvenile in a city of love 
Journal of June jeopardize jolly of my jubilee
Journey of my fond judge George jolt my bridal
Juvenile in city of dowdy dowager
Jumper justify forever journey of my judge George
Juvenile in a moor of mound 
Joy and jovial of my junior jag me jejune
Weep of my heart Jointure and jostle my jubilation
Like an orphan
Emphatic loves of Judge George throw me into jaunt of
Geneva
Junior enquire jamboree picture of my judiciousnessI Feel as i joint my Judge George...

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