Short Shimmy Poems

old bones shimmy
in the pumpkin scented breeze
clowns and witches race...

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on the pulsing floor
barflies wiggle and shimmy
fear and pride~  shot drowned...

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Winter
Frosted forests
Shimmy and shiver
Glistening gloriously in icicled
Dresses...

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shaken
shanghai
shimmer
shimmy
shiver
showdown



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on March 10, 2019...

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sun on orange fur
stripes shimmy into coolness
the tiger he rawred*

9/3/2020

*my word for his gentle roar...

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Birds revel on shimmy petals
Fervid wings stretching over sepals
Thistles on the other side, live in deep purples
Whistles of portals imbued by warbles...

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fog dances shimmy 
rising from the slight hollow
view camouflaged gray  

For contest
Form: Troika(no listing for it on here)...

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Wearing pink panties, I get such a thrill
Ones with butterflies and yellow daffodils
Shimmy and shake
My own earthquake
Creating a furor with my wiggle mill...

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A graceful young lady named Kate
would shimmy and leap and gyrate.
Her copious whirling,
maniacal twirling
caused Kate to shed half of her weight....

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Cup-winner Stan
Still playing on at thirty-eight,
Inch perfect crosses on a plate;
With shimmy,side-step and dazzle
He left the full back in a frazzle;
An aging hero with twinkling skills,
A pro sans modern day frills....

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Flapper Shirley Shively sighed and thought, how could she?
She'd love to do that hootchie-kootchie dance, but would she?
Though the boys she loved to tease,
She was, sadly, quite obese.
Surely Shirley Shively shouldn't shimmy, should she?...

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Summer fun has begun at last.
Sun is shining every morning.
Shimmy into our swimsuits fast.
Seaside soon will begin swarming.
Slather up with loads of sunscreen.
Sunglasses protect from sea sheen.
Sunbathing is a real blast.

21/06/2018...

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Down came jolly Santa, lickety-split
not checking to see if a fire was lit.
He shot out of the chimney
while dancing a fast shimmy-
His job is oft harder than he'll admit!


Written on 12/21/2022
For: A Funny Santa Limerick Poetry 
Contest
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin...

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Cup-winner Stan
Still playing on at thirty-eight,
Inch perfect crosses on a plate;
With shimmy,side-step and dazzle
He left the full back in a frazzle;
An aging hero with twinkling skills,
A pro sans modern day frills.

Stan = Stan Mathews of Forties football(soccer) fame...

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it is a shame
even in some
ways a sham
but i am trying
to reverse some
things like super
man flying back
wards against the
rotation of earth's
gravitational pull

so let me take
your hand but
promising to
give it back
after we 
have taken
a relaxing
dip in our
genetic
pool...

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THE GREATEST

Cup-winner Stan
Still playing on at thirty-eight,
Inch perfect crosses on a plate;
With shimmy,side-step and dazzle
He left the full back in a frazzle;
An aging hero with twinkling skills,
A pro sans modern day frills.

Stan = Stan Mathews of Forties football(soccer) fame...

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Elmer loved the drip drip drip sound of April rain
Under comfort of a leaf umbrella, he heard the refrain
It reminded him of his childhood, he felt loved again.

His mother would have been extremely proud of him.
He looked in the pond and saw his old Uncle Jim.
Shimmy shim shim, he sang. “Shimmy shim shim!”...

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Santa can't shimmy down chimneys no more.
"My belly won't fit through the flue," he swore!
The reindeer hid a smirk
When Santa went berserk
Fatty Claus will have to sneak in the door



November 26, 2022
A Funny Christmas/December Holiday Limerick 
A Contest sponsored by Tania Kitchin...

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THE GREATEST

Cup-winner Stan
Still playing on at thirty-eight,
Inch perfect crosses on a plate;
With shimmy,side-step and dazzle
He left the full back in a frazzle;
An aging hero with twinkling skills,
A pro sans modern day frills.

Stan = Stan Mathews of Forties football(soccer) fame

Brian Strand | Year Posted 2017...

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Romanticism descends an unbridled staircase
bittersweet; stripped bare and unleashed
passion in supple nudity
sashays down my spine
a ginned up shimmy and sway yearn
tingling every naked nerve with a sudden surge
of electric longing and unmasked pulses of pang and pleasure


Susan Ashley
October 11, 2019


*romanticism: romantic spirit or tendency*...

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juke baby,? ?juke?!

head thrown back
sway mama,? ?sway
eyes closed
parted lips
shuffle and slide
shake yo hips
in gyrations rhythmic
vestigial remnants
of another dance
another land
lush? ?and green
and fertile and wild
where women did
shimmy and shake
about the fire
in rhythmic gyration
to welcome 
the hunting men
home once more

Juke baby,? ?juke?!...

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This urge
Go, Run and hide…
Perpetual EMOTION
Maybe bliss on the other side?

Wedged on the fence,
scratching holes in my soul.
Shimmy up, shimmy down. 
See how low you can go…

Reach a plateau,
Rest a while.
Until, perplexity surrenders…
Perpetual MOTION
Maybe bliss on the other side?

This urge
Go, Run and hide…
Perpetual EMOTION
Maybe bliss on the other side?...

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Dance
makes me
play, act, move
like chic play girl
bold, carefree, nimble,
self-expressing feelings.
High-spirited freestyling
Sexy, flirty with fast salsa 
Lively, jazzy in swing and shimmy
Romantic, seductive with rumba
Passionate, controlled in tango
Sensual with bachata
Pert, saucy in chacha
Elegant in waltz
Slick in disco
It let me
amuse
me. 
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IF I WERE AN ELEPHANT

If my poundage frightens you, then get out of the way!
I will lift you high, with my baton trunk, shimmy you onto my back, as if you
were crowned royalty. I’ll parade you through the jungle. I’ll listen with
an ear or two, they are huge.  I make for good company. Just don’t put this
elephant in a circus or zoo, or this poundage will stampede! 

12/8/2016...

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PARTY IMITATION

boy watches
birthday video

oh spouse! oh brother!
two bro-in-laws, and
dear old dad, a full
living color gift
dance to the tune:

YMCA

i know y’all can hear it
in your head.

their hands form each letter

“Y” “M” “C” “A”

shirts shimmy
up the tummy

red-headed rapscallion
two year old toddler
smirks
from the other side
of the camera

up goes his shirt

5/19/2017...

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