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Swanky Poems - Poems about Swanky

Wimbledon the menace of celebrity tennis

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Mr Dennis...grimace..what the Dickens is going on...the menace 

Inevitability of a celebrity on every terrace at the tennis..

The profanity and insanity of rampant vanity..

The gist..a...
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Categories: swanky, celebrity, society, sports,
Form: Rhyme

Of course Fairy Tales can come true Daws

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Have I done something wrong..8 long years..regretted being forsaken not feted..more pong than gong it appears

Charismatic Selectors mistaken..phlegmatic..enigmatic or erratic

Dramatic not pra...
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Categories: swanky, sports,
Form: Rhyme



Billionaires hunker down in their Queenstown bunker lairs

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Let’s pester Uncle Fester

After dafter Luxon 

Pushed the button

Welcomed every glutton

To the isles of mutton


Theme of the meme

Team New Zealand 

It does seem

No longer a
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Categories: swanky, money,
Form: Rhyme

Banana once again

...What sold was for millions as art so grand,
Was bought for a few cents at a fruit stand--
A fancy mall nor mart,
Nor place of art apart,
Nor was banana taped with swanky band.
But a joke so crue...
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Categories: swanky, art, humor, irony,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberGeorgia in mid-March

...the roaring sound rejuvenates      my heart

wind whips,
                    bells tinkle,
                                       flag flaps
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Categories: swanky, emotions, spring, wind,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberUh Oh

...Subtle, a swanky sweet swan-themed restaurant in Cincinnati
Accidentally took evening reservations for a hundred and three
Unfortunately, their capacity limit is twenty-five and a half
The booking...
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Categories: swanky, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe England Captain Throttled a Koala

...And why not?
The Lucky country
Bodyline
Human skittles
Murder Incorporated 
Swing lube 

I sit with friends and 
We put
Together our greatest XI
To face Mars
My father shouts, "That's out!...
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Categories: swanky, my child, mythology,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberKing

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Christ, the King of kings
Of whom my soul sings
Born in a manger
His life in danger
No palace, no bed
No place to lay head 
Walking everywhere
No carriage to spare
Riding a donk...
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Categories: swanky, jesus,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberNew Life

...She cut the ties
The good
The bad
The menopause
Finally, the long pause
Followed by the loneliness
Days became weeks, became months
It was time
Life begins at forty
Did it, end at forty-six
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Categories: swanky, confidence, emotions, future,
Form: Free verse

Night Club

...Club nocturnal

In Bilbao, on a warm evening, he walked past a nightclub 
walked in and had a beer; he could have gone to 
a Guggenheim Museum and be culturally minded, absorb
and mention it lat...
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Categories: swanky, abuse, allusion, anger, anti
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberPeppy Petals

...blooms
bouncy
baby’s breath
busy bee balm
ritzy rose, glitzy gloxinia
zany zinnia, dear ditzy daisy
swanky saffron
flouncy phlox
bonnie
buds...
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Categories: swanky, beauty, environment, flower, nature,
Form: Tetractys

Premium MemberThe Ballad of Daphne and Jack, the Sequel

...Gather 'round me, my dears,
I'll continue the tale
Of a princess and her pirate lover.
Of her crown unencumbered,
They pillaged and plundered
As they wandered the seven seas over.

Crimes mari...
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Categories: swanky, adventure, humor, princess,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberCritterature: Concerning the Crafty Crayfish

...By many aliases they're known:
Crawfish, crawdads, mudbugs, yabbies.
They abound in brooks, and streams, and swamps,
As well as roadside ditches and rice paddies.

Their astacology has shown
Th...
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Categories: swanky, animal, humor,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberOne Hundred Colours of Gluck

...Emerald envy nestled on velvet 
several thousand away from paid
Puce tulip promise inducement
secluded juice, palliation delayed 

Ivory aspire ripped wide envelope
plump with numbered requirem...
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Categories: swanky, business, class, green, horse,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOf Infinity

...On the exquisite wings of fated infinity.  
We move with subtle elegance and fluidity.
To sail into odd space on a vessel of silence.
It is clearly the domain of the swanky credence...
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Categories: swanky, allegory, analogy, appreciation, confusion,
Form: Rhyme

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