Short Zigzagged Poems

Throwing bouncy ball 
It zigzagged...it spiraled mad 
Who KNOWS where it goes

Hopping to and fro
it's quite a funny
Scene to watch that ball o o o...

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Zigzagged memories are easily recalled in my mind
Youthful hands playfully maneuvering an Etch A Sketch
Xeroxed veins have been forever etched into my elderly brain.

~Contest~ John Lawless~ "Z Y X"...

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Arthur swore he'd  be less brotherly,
When his brother got disorderly.
He would want their mum less motherly
To get him back to being orderly

A shock from one paid as orderly
His movements are scarcely soldierly
Many things handling haphazardly,
Though his allowance quite niggardly;
Toes from shoes saying it jaggedly...
Orderly whose walks much zigzagged
And finest garments the ragged....

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furry fingertips danced around the head
shaggy and zigzagged, 
Somehow making him seem more fierce
made sense as he was the king

fingertips of green rose up to meet him,
hiding him so he could wait for his prey
he crouched lower and lower
sensing an injured gazelle.

jumping finger tip flew past, 
sticking from green fingertip to green fingertip
a warm summer day in Africa,
a great day to be a predator....

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Tailors’ quaint imagination 
For customers adoration:
Only-God-knows inspiration 
He knows time of expiration: 
The crisscrossed and zigzagged entire, 
As they are what eyes require,
Bejeweled Hat like spire 
Who in Man ideas inspire?

One long look at Men’s Attire 
You know it would them not tire;
Man would not from farce retire 
On writers urging satire…

Tailors, gross imagination
From machines a machination....

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