Pink Flamingo
...Pink hue flamingo it must be due to all
the carotenoid pigments feasted on
algae and crustaceans
An elongated neck spirals
and filters such sensations
Sharing color is Okinawa salmon sushi,
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Categories:
tutus, bird,
Form: Burlesque
Come in to the Coil
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On spewing wave, our departing ride
Crazed currents crack, an azure slide
Freedom mingles in sea foam seethe
Cobra throat coast gulps river relieve
Estuary entry rest...
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Categories:
tutus, adventure, beautiful, environment, flower,
Form: Couplet
You Twins Have Never Looked Better
...You twins have never looked better, said with contention.
Fred and Ted, dressed in tutus, trying for attention.
Their mother was the only one slightly a teensy bit amused.
Their homophobic father ...
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Categories:
tutus, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Watching the Dance
...The dancers ranged from tiny tots
In tutus meant for twirls
To those performing hip hop moves
Designed for older girls.
There also were performances
In modern dance and jazz,
With everybody s...
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Categories:
tutus, dance, granddaughter,
Form: Rhyme
The Dancer
...Like an old cat stretching her limbs in the sunlight
Warmth seeping through knots in her gnarled hands and sShe sits on a paisley chair in front of the East window
welling in her stiff knees
Pre...
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Categories:
tutus, age, dance, death,
Form: Free verse
Winter Magic
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Swirling snowflakes are such a beautiful sight
Like ballerinas wearing filigree tutus of frosty white
Once naked tree branches now laden with snow
Children make snow angels, happ...
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Categories:
tutus, snow, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Pink Tutus In My Garden
...ballerinas wearing inverted tutus
dancing through my garden
enticing wasps and bees
their pinkness gives the garden a bit of bush
they are dainty as lipstick on a china doll...
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Categories:
tutus, flower,
Form: Free verse
Prima Ballerina
...Pale limbs, vestigial breasts, long, slender alabaster neck,
In classic first position she stands alone in the spotlight,
Center stage, accepting her last applause.
It's tumultuous tonight, but mi...
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Categories:
tutus, dance, retirement,
Form: Rhyme
Happy Day At Squirrel Ballet
...happy day
squirrel ballet
tutus a twirl
laced slippers awhirl
recital galore
never a bore
fluffy tails spinning
prima donnas are winning
happy day happy day
loving this squirrel ballet...
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Categories:
tutus, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Frivolity, Performance
...There’s an air of excitement
Amongst most cultured of Spain
Centred around a little hamlet
On the Andalusian Plain.
They are arriving by the plane load,
Helicopter, and even limousine
For the...
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Categories:
tutus, art, culture, dance, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Ballerina Bunnies
...The ballerina bunnies should be here at three if you please.
They pirouette and courtesy in their ballet shoes, light as a breeze!
The garden was waiting with tulips ready to give them a wink.
Th...
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Categories:
tutus, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Degas Dancers
...** Degas Dancers **
Painted or drawn,
Degas arrested time.
Truly
His dancers
— even those standing,
watching the others —
Are caught in motion,
In poised postures such
That we think...
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Categories:
tutus, beauty, dance, feelings, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
tutus, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Tippy Toes - Nursery Rhyme
...Tippy Toes - Nursery Rhyme
There's a cute little fairy named Tippy-Toes
That's because she dances wherever she goes
A ballerina she'll be, it's seen c...
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Categories:
tutus, dance, dream, fairy,
Form: Rhyme
Contemporary Prance - Bawdy Warning
...My friends took me down to Broadway
To watch a newfangled ballet
T'was called the Buttcracker
And not the Nutcracker
The title was apt I can say
Some dancers were dressed in tutus
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Categories:
tutus, dance, identity,
Form: Limerick
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