Short Jiving Poems

Save the government
Sworn to protect its people
Stop jiving freedom...

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Elvis was King;
Rock 'n Roll made all things swing,
And Jiving was the 'thing'...

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A troupe of dancers 
Singing, swinging 
Diving, jiving 
4 men, 2 women

ASD4
For Adam’s Captcha contest...

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     Jiving and jazz, razzmatazz.
     Jitterbug then rock and roll.
     Smooching while eighty years old.
     Both tickety- boo....

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dropping a shilling 
         .. in  the snug juke box
   playing   Haley & Elvis
     around the clock-
jiving to music so unorthodox...

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When I saw Miss Daisy drunk driving
It seems like someone was jiving
She was driving to fast
That she crashed and pass
Giving her chauffeur wealth now he's thriving...

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ELVIS

Elvis was King;
Rock 'n Roll made all things swing,
And Jiving was the 'thing'
dropping a shilling
        .. in  the snug juke box
    Presley,then
so unorthodox....

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just a dime per tune when
jiving in the sixties
jitterbug before that
jamming still to the hits
jazz, pop, rock, soul~~lyrics
jaunty and sad burst forth 
jump up~~punch in your fave...

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"Jailhouse Rock," pocket combs
Jokes at the burger joint
Jiving to "Jitterbug"
Johnny Cash for a dime
Jumbo milkshake, two straws
Just one more song and dance
Journey's hit, "Faithfully"

9-12-2023...

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Skiffle was on a roll,
we danced to Nat King Cole,
Elvis was King;
Rock 'n Roll made all things swing,
And Jiving was the 'thing'

Fifty years have just slipped by...
Since that day that we said 'Hi'...

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"PRINCE"

Prince: truly a self-produced man;
“Purple Rain”—simply a masterpiece.
Sail smoothly sweet Prince.
May you find yourself on the 
Big Stage, shucking & jiving
For Love & Honor of God:
“That’s entertainment!"...

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Cease all striving, oh weary soul
Everything’s ready made
Bliss suffused, feel joyous and whole
Rest in heavenly glade

Keep head-heart in balance 
From God, zero distance
With love in resonance

Heart’s-a-jiving
Cease all striving

02-January-2022
Quietus ...

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. 
                                     My mouse died
                                On him I totally relied
                                 How I cried and cried
                                 Replaced his battery  
                             Then he came back alive
                                Now we can really jive...

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jazzy sixties music explodes nside my head
I feel young and hip, chic, slick and psychedelic
Visualizing disco ball and slivers of prism lights
a teenager again, I am jiving and jamming
I hear screeching of brakes; it is my right foot
I was a foot away from rear ending a semi
am I ever going to learn to turn off sixties music when I am driving?...

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Helter skelter Henrietta hen had a lot to say
Wiggling her tail feathers at me today
I knew now that the bozo loved to play
She did a happy dance and a slide sashay

Be comfortable in your feathers she said to me
Now she was jiving on the limb of a tree
I will do my best, I replied as I watched her spree
She did the happy dance and a spin just for me...

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If I was a bouquet, I would be full and bushy with purple and lavender flowers.
Violets, lilac, white baby’s breath, fuchsia crepe myrtle, pink knock-out roses
Streams of orange and yellow silk ribbons would flow as a petticoat.
I would be dancing and jiving to jazzy music as my bride skipped down the aisle
Her father would have to try and keep up with her jazzy dance moves....

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COPLA 95 INVOCATION : This Bad Guy World

Tyrannosaur State eats rebel states
Even if its peoples’ stomachs ache :
Pollute pumped gas

Some toddler states like to lie in crates
Full of Tyrannosaur shells and cake :
Jiving to jazz

Others congregate to make war
On tyrannosaurs decrepit :
Born ennemies

While our mighty Tyrannosaur
Falls all by itself into cesspit :
Making babies

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014...

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Out The Door

Country had many meandering hills
Full of so many chills and thrills
Good locking gal sat beside me
Right there where she should be.

I may be from mighty Muskogee
Where they like to do the bogie
And likely forgot to add the lo
Afraid it would get all over you.

All around things started moving
Were jumping, jiving and grooving
And then when my dress I tore
They threw me out the door.

James Thomas Horn, Retired Veteran...

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Mama becomes a baker disrupting our day
Now we have to get dressed ourselves without pay
It is good experience she says with a teensy bit of wit.
I am not excited about it, I liked being babied a bit.

She is jiving and grooving, dancing around the kitchen.
Throwing in new ingredients – seaweed, lime and a lichen.
I like that she is happy, but this puts me into a bit of a funk.
I do not like having to get dressed and clean and that other junk....

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Just listen to that sax
                                                jam and jitter and stray.
                                    Jaunty beats and wild notes
                        jump around as I swing
                                    jiving to the music.
                                                Jiggling and grooving, we
                                                      join in that soul train dance.





Written on 3/3/2017
Pleiades...

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I’ve been lost all these years
in time across the ocean,
a license to yearn
a litany of emotion.
Youthfulness to burn
in a life of devotion,
an intellect to earn
an ideal, a whim a notion.
Hazy days to remember
A hillside to laze upon
sunrise in harmony
Sailor fields to gaze upon.
Jiving with bees
the foxie on the label
reams of remembrance
a pint on the table.
Together!  We made it
the good times, the pain
someone to walk with
in Monday’s rain!

© Harry J Horsman  2000...

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