Short Persnickety Poems

How much for a snickety?
That's 25 cents persnickety.
Great, I'll take three....

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dog
exuberant friendly
sniffing, licking, slurping,
husky, beagle, Siamese, calico
persnickety, angry
cat...

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Paula’s proud pretentiousness was prevalent
perceptible, palpable, persnickety, provocatively
pathetic and putrid....

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Prettiest prancing posy parasols play
Petunias preen provocatively
pathetic persnickety performance
pretty parasols procure the prize...

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whilst in the midst of your dream

perceived i a prankish scheme

how loudly you snore

you infinite bore

splat sir a saucer of cream.
...

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messy with a capital P
That to me is creativity
persnickety muse showing mean to me
being the best grizzly bear I can be
I am in love with creativity...

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Persnickety Phoebe parades pompously
Privately, we make fun where she can’t see
We are kind of mean
Think we are unseen
But Karma comes back indubitably...

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Pompous city dwellers,
pretentious rock doves now
parade around like a 
popinjay or fancy
peacock, and yet, they're not
persnickety poopers,
pooping on everything.
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King blew bubbles from his lounging couch!
One hit persnickety rabbit, and he yelled ouch!
It did not hurt you the royal yes-men said.
They always said this, being rather brain-dead....

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Peter Pan, Pippi Longstockings,
Pandora’s box, plentiful play, 
Pleasantries, primary, preferences,
Perfect, personal, persnickety,
Persevere, powerful, purple,
Playful, positive P....

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Cattle rustler’s name - Persnickety Pete
Never rustled, just lured cattle with treats
   For a rustler, a freak
   Pete was a real sneak
If treats didn’t work, he’d pull a cow’s teats...

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Paula persnickety poppycock provided proof
Questioning quarrelsome quick-witted quail
Responsible radicals reacted, reminding raised roof
Shopworn shortbread shakes shifty ships and shale...

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Persnickety porcupine are you a rodent then?
Are those quills at the end of your tiny chin-chin?
To the ocean, have you ever travelled or been?
Swimming with porpoises next to your prickly skin?...

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Once was a handsome fellow of twenty-eight
Don't know what happened, maybe something I ate
Got old and crickety
A trifle persnickety
The young girlies giggle when I try to negotiate...

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pandemonium preceded Paula Paulson’s painstakingly prissily packed
packsack. Pathetic poetic Parnassian provided paramount particulars,
a peep and a peek into Paula Paulson’s persnickety personality....

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She did a whizbang job on her science project
Her teacher was impressed and did a genuflect
Parents pretended she had done it all her way
These perfectionists had done it after sending her out to play...

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Margaret is astounded
That someone dare call her prissy
persnickety, uptight, queen

She gives the man her coldest meanest shoulder
his eyes captivate her imagination
her telltale cheeks flush pink...

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persnickety?
you obviously have the wrong woman.
fussy?
I can see you are at the wrong address.
prissy?
you may be on the wrong block.
angry?
Go two doors down and ask for Gladys. She can set you up....

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       Ornery welcomed
          Persnickety aboard 
       Stubborn manned the wheel

       Mischief infiltrated
          Nooks and crannies  
     
        Teamwork sank
          ~ the ship piecemeal

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my co-workers were snippy, snotty, persnickety, uptight and mean.
I had been discounting this for some time, but could not ignore any longer.
quitting my job was the right thing for me; I did not belong with mean girls....

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the persnickety, snooty, snotty cat queen put on airs
as if there were not a ridiculous succulent on her head
I watched her climb those red-carpeted prissy throne stairs
and thought she must be low class, common, and pretty lowbred....

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Premiere of Persimmon Pureblood
Pennsylvania’s premiere debutante
prettier than a Parisian parasol
persnickety and powdery
poufy, perfumed, perfectly petite
Persimmon practiced her pirouette
pleats parading petals in a perfect circle...

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Who are they? The oaks asked, their roots in a gnarl.
They are the Halloween cats, we replied with a snarl.
They are prissy and persnickety and they think they’re all that.
Well that’s a typical attitude the oaks said, for a Halloween cat....

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She is persnickety about who she dates if I’m not mistaken.
We have brought her many contenders, but nothing has taken.
She likes looking for herself, her choices have gone asunder.
At least these days she is running out of rocks to look under....

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I can sit like this if I want to, she said with a hiss.
Defensive for no reason whatsoever, amusing me.
Because all the rest of us were sitting like this too.
She was so busy being persnickety, she had not noticed anyone else.
Which told us many things about her....

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