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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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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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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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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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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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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The moon cannot be lassoed, the persnickety opossum said.
Cat next to him laughed so hard, his face turned pink, then red.
Depends on how magical you are, the feline said with knowledge of many.
He lassoed the moon, which gave us enough swiss cheese to feed twenty....

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Pigeons


Pompous city dwellers,
pretentious rock doves now
parade around like some 
popinjay or fancy
peacock, and yet, they're not
persnickety eaters, 
pooping on everything.


(Pleiades)


4/11/2021


Pleiades P Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Kim Merryman...

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I am a bouncy dog, a bouncy boy, a bouncy frouncy jouncy joy
I am a persnickety cat, a precious joy, I am a terrific friend, a furry boy
I am a dragon who’s wagg’n, with scales out to here, I am a dear.
I am a bear, I can eat you all. See my teeth and paws? I feel your fear!...

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Perhaps
extremely
rigid
sentences
never
indicate the
calculated
kinetic
energy
that you are trying to impart.

Perhaps.

Eventually insanity wins out
Relegating
Sentences
Indubitably
Frivolous and
Leaving
Any and all superfluous
Grandiosity
Empty of purpose....

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Serendipity rounded the corner on two wheels
Screeching and shuddering as she attempted to wake me
Trixie my persnickety muse lulled me back to sleep with dream drops.
I woke up in a panic ten minutes later 
Again hearing the ending line of the best poem ever
Forgotten again today...

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boisterous beekeeper was bathed, bound and belted.
besieged by bevy of beauties whose beeswax was melted.
fickle, frantic, frolicking friendly freedom, freshly felted.
persnickety, lickety-splickety personified, pointed and pelted.
On a sweaty, snarly summers eve swiggled, swayed and swelted....

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Pirate Petey provided a pleasurable pirate fantasy for his persnickety crew
They got to make the inhabitants walk the plank, and they ran some through
sword battles and torturous techniques are were finished by a quarter ‘til two.
So they took a long luxurious nap in the Cove named aptly Pretty Boo Boo....

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