Melons Mabel
...*A very loose form of Limerick,
but Mabel deserves lots of syllables.
There once was a waitress with the name of Mabel
Who used her bosom as a restaurant table
Beneath her d...
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Categories:
swaggered, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Murdering Pluto
...
"Murdering Pluto"
On Pluto,
they deal with trauma
in the best possible way,
they murder it slowly
in poetic hell
day after day.
the dark Seraphim
have their way....
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Categories:
swaggered, dark, muse, mystery, psychological,
Form: Narrative
Panic At the Food Bank
...When Cowardice and Sloth shook hands,
their deal produced a special breed
of thief whose basic low-risk plans
to victimize the ones in need
required no smarts and little speed.
This slacker w...
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Categories:
swaggered, courage, poverty,
Form: Quintain (English)
The Gambler
...The steely-eyed hombre stepped down from the stage that sultry afternoon.
He looked about with disdain, then swaggered to the Cripple Creek Saloon.
His hat lay low upon his brow and swung low was a...
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Categories:
swaggered, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Weighed In
...I took my mum to slimming world
On every Tuesday night
She’d get her finest glad rags on
And beam with sheer delight
Not much of an adventure,
On the way she’d barely speak.
But she’d set h...
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Categories:
swaggered, food, health, humor, social,
Form: Rhyme
Hitching Hoochie
...Drinks fridge murmurs accusations at me
Seals connect with whoosh of door close
Defuses incriminating strip of lights lairy
Where I go from this station, God knows!
Lady taking my coins sneers,...
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Categories:
swaggered, angel, car, character, journey,
Form: Narrative
Magpie Murder
...Six magpies brought their mourning squawk,
soon joined by several others,
disturbing all their neighbour's talk
and waking sleepy lovers.
Some hopped and did their swaggered strut
between a ...
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Categories:
swaggered, bereavement, bird, death, death
Form: Rhyme
Grownup Games
...When you insist on playing grownup games,
you've only yourself to blame if you lose.
And though the signs can easily confuse,
smoldering embers don't equate to flames.
Innocence can't p...
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Categories:
swaggered, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Pets Revenge
...For example a Dachshund dog was thrown 5 floors to his death
The owner photographed this and posted it online
His dog looked like he was sleeping but was dead
I tracked the Dachshund Dog’s Kille...
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Categories:
swaggered, abuse, anger, animal, pets,
Form: Prose Poetry
Bronwyn's Mate, Part I
...Bronwyn the Barbaric amassed admirers
like oceans collect river-flow
Streams of suitors all tried to woo her
each determined to be her “best beau”
But our fair pirate queen was a fickle young l...
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Categories:
swaggered, animal, dog, fantasy, funny,
Form: Rhyme
I Loved You, John Wayne
...I loved you John Wayne!
I wished you were my father
or maybe an older brother
who’d tutor me to be tough
when manners weren’t enough
and toughness was needed
that civility be heede...
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Categories:
swaggered, assonance, humorous, , western,
Form: Light Verse
Size Does Matter- Buzzard and Flamingos Contest
...Bob the buzzard is colour blind i think
he doesnt think a flamingo should be pink,
say he has seen many and he knows
that flamingos are blue in Galapagos.
buzzards eyes gleen as he watches them...
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Categories:
swaggered, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Sipping Cedar With My Sweetheart
...And his frost-clad lips I gently kissed
So mildly radiant amid this place--
That the silvery night grew quite intense
Until a gasp rushed from his cheeks.
While awakening to each other
O...
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Categories:
swaggered, desire, sweet love,
Form: Free verse
Dandelions
...Always in the limelight
Cheerful and bright
I find you as wonderful
As you are bountiful
Yellow dots swaggered
Here and there scattered
Like a child’s laughter
You epitomize summer
D...
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Categories:
swaggered, beautiful, flower, nature, perspective,
Form: Couplet
The Duke
...There was a man's man, you could say he was grand,
who blessed the cinema screen and had millions of fans.
When he swaggered into a room, men stepped aside,
their wives and their daughters they...
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Categories:
swaggered, hero,
Form: Rhyme
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