Short Pranced Poems

Grimy grubby unkempt unscrubby
He pranced around with keen delight
Skipping on cool cobblestones
Throughout the amazingly fun night...

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A pristine pink petticoat prissily pranced priggishly and primly.
A prideful prima donna prisoner of Peggy’s prideful preteen
promenade....

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Prancer gave Dasher a poke
It was so hard that he had to soak
His ribs were still sore
As he heads to the door
He pranced to the song, backstroke...

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Creeping quietly, crawling slowly
Walking stealthly, eying hungrily
Waiting patiently, calculating rapidly
the cat pranced, on the rat soon deceased...

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there once was a mule who danced
with ease he twirled and pranced
many times mule felt
he had to tighten his belt
for he was always losing his pants...

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there was a warthog who danced
who dipped, swirled, rocked, slid and pranced
to cut the rug and swing
was his favorite thing
until he danced off his pants...

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Once when I went to the store
Saw an old cat named Kitty Galore.

She sang and she pranced
And tried hard to dance,

But still remained just an eyesore....

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If you have a cat in your house
And you also have a mouse
The mouse wouldn't stand a chance
Of living, when that wily cat pranced
Because this cat was a louse....

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an ugly old woman named Nat
wore pants on her head for a hat

with her skirt upside down
she pranced through the town

while we asked of each other "What's THAT?"...

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Mama deer pranced diffidently
checking the meadow for man’s smell
Her spotted fawn trots along
unaware of danger
checking out the food
of pure and sweet
glorious
verdant
grasses...

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Wildlife 28

A plumpish wood pigeon called Sue,
Thought it sexy to bill and to coo,
So she zoomed to the ground,
Where she pranced round and round,
Then flew off 'cos she wanted a poo!...

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Her eyes grate on tainted hall

Where love's ember pranced inside

A vignette slowly dimming...

While night's coal glistens




7/7/7/5 Syl Count
5 Lines Or Less Contest...Black-Eyed Susan...

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I danced with you beneath the blue moon 
swiveling around you like a garland festoon 
blue unicorns pranced, a flower bloomed 
wiggling round words that you crooned

July 25, 2021...

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Harbinger of Summer’s jamboree 
walked in a scarlet hued harlot;
Waves pranced inside azure eyes 
building mile high castles 
with sandy affairs;
Shoreside bonfires 
moonlit sea,
beach life’s 
hot....

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A well-endowed gal relished baring
her assets. She pranced about wearing
skin-tight skimpy dresses.
Such clothing impresses
the men, who just drool and keep staring.



June 2, 2019

syllable count:  9  9  6  6  9...

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Paula’s partying parrot paraded pridefully past Pete
Particularly poised Petunia pranced persimmon sweet.
Pete preferred Paul’s personality, plowing past Petunia’s pail.
Quizzable questionable quandary quickly confusing quibbling quail....

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Man
Danced
Clouds parted
Children pranced
Laughter is flight
Xquisite
Xtreme delight
Vivid is the sight
I Am...
Magic Acts
Cats in hats
Call my mind
Change my time
Xquisite in sight
Xtreme delight
Xperience flight
Vividly me
I Am....

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Penelope Lee was steampunk driven with purple hair.
Some people did not understand, they stood with a weirdo’s stare.
Her confidence pranced forth and lingered forever in the air.
For others opinions of her do not bother; she does not give a care....

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She smiled to hear the merry sound
as Morris dancers pranced around;
her foot now tapping to the drum,
she felt so glad that she had come
to see the Carnival of May
and Maypole-dance her cares away!

written 6th May for Andrea's May lay contest...

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Oh goodbye starstudded nights and dewdrop morn's
Adieu to the host of longlost spritely dawns
Oh how I will miss the sunshine and rain
Farewell good summer, please come soon again
Goodbye sweet nights when fairies danced
And all day gay gypsies pranced...

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Dressed down, the organic earth-child still narrowly escapes the ravenous lapping of El Oso. Once the brute is felled by the fair, surely the tickled dragon’s snout fumes. The never-satiated beast fumes, and swipes with an eager pink swath, each time the raw gets pranced past his nose....

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Glass Heart 

The sharp pain
of shattering glass
jolted him into reality.

She rudely pranced 
over the brittle shards
she had just created.

"Please be careful,"
he whispered,
"That is my heart you are breaking."

Then she was gone,
leaving him alone,
to pick up the pieces....

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A lovely vision caught my eye

A pirouetting butterfly,

It climbed a sunbeam as it danced 

As in the air it turned and pranced,

In my mind it seemed to be

A little ballet... just for me.








Entry for
Bite Size Poem 4 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Line Gauthier
29/5/2021. Placed 2nd....

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There once was a lap dog named Chloe,
Well-groomed and adorned to be showy;
She pranced in the ring,
Applause she did bring,
With her tail and her ears long and flowy.

There once was a schnauzer named Pete,
Bearded and eye-browed so neat;
He wanted to win,
But failed to begin,
For Chloe had gone into heat....

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The Sun was on a rippling brook,
while the leaves on the trees,
by the wind were shook.

On the mossy floor,
a fire danced.

On the breeze a golden butterfly pranced.

Underneath a laurel,
lay a silver bow.
Beside it sat Apollo,
with his kithara in tow.

The Butterfly flew in the fire,
while Apollo strummed upon his lyre....

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