Short Quizzed Poems

Important Margrave of Germany
Put his new Margravine on his knee.
Bounced her soundly three times.
And then quizzed her with rhymes.
Quickly lost wife number twenty-three....

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Sitting with an empty soul
Loneliness has filled her world
Life has stripped her naked
Broken emotions
Hidden thoughts
Blinded vision
Through ups and downs
Life has quizzed her...

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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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A
Beautifully
Curious
Darling
Enthusiastic dog
Felt
Genuinely
Happy
In
Jumpy
Kitten’s
Luxurious
Mane.
Never
Outstandingly smart
Puppy
Quizzed
Roaring
Smelly
Tiger
Until
Violence
Warily anticipated by the other animals and fully 
X-pected erupted, when 
Young
Zebra intervened and saved puppy....

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It was instant this connection
Never saw your face for you were far away
But still my heart skipped a beat
Intrigued by your persona, your aura 

I quizzed you trying to decide why I felt these feelings
I could tell you could tell I was invested
Way before my confession my true feels apparent 
I’m attracted to you; think I am in love with you...

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my new quilt is made of hundreds of cats
grandmother quizzed me. Are you sure?  Did you count them?
maybe fifty cats? I said.
grandma cora stared me down.
I was squirming now. 
sixteen cats? 
her face said that she knew better.
I took another stab at a count “maybe six cats?”
she asked me to hold up the quilt. 
knowing when I fib, even if it is through video chat.
she has the knack!
probably because she practiced on my mommy....

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