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Mabel Poems - Poems about Mabel

Premium Member 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 double chins Mabel flaunted her twins The one on the right, Cain and the left one, Abel The locals...

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Categories: mabel, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Tom and Mabel
Just Tom and Mabel in the village, No honorific ever known, Too far down the pecking order for Such respect to be shown. Like so many in that village My Dad and Mam worked on A still almost feudal system Wage slavery not yet gone. Oh, they were respected, Looked up to in their way For their ability to work An honest long hard day, But,...

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Categories: mabel, appreciation, in memoriam, parents,
Form: Rhyme



My Dearest Mabel
My dearest Mabel was the human personification of what her first name stood for: "Beautiful" and "Lovable" She was a nurturing mother grandmother, teacher and woman of God She was the perfect help mate for my great grandfather She was to him what Eve was to Adam what Sarah was to Abraham what Rebekah was to Isaac and what Ruth was to Boaz She was the embodiment of the...

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Categories: mabel, appreciation, death, family, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Letter From Aunt Mabel
A letter arrived from Aunt Mabel, always a keeper She was delighted I bought myself a Bissell sweeper Said they are best, but I could have gotten it cheaper, Seems her nephew is in more trouble, getting deeper I suspect he was caught smoking or selling a reefer, Auntie says her bloat is causing her to have a fever She needs...

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Categories: mabel, humorous,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Mabel Mended Macrame
Millie’s mother Mabel mended macrame Mainly Marseilles-made macrame, Maddening moments mending machine macrame Mostly made-to-order, mostly May macrame. Making May mostly made-to-order macrame means Many months modifying Malaysian macrame, mostly! written February 2, 2022...

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Categories: mabel, fun, humor, word play,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member End of the Year Letter From Auntie Mabel
Yesterday, I received Auntie Mabel’s end-of-the-year letter Seems, after another bout with arthritis, she is some better, She reports that Aunt Lula Fay’s nephew is no longer in fetter But, unfortunately, he’s only out on bail, she being his “setter.” Sid, Auntie Mable tells me, will never be much of a go-getter, Reminds me for Christmas she sent me a...

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Categories: mabel, family, humor,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Aunt Mabel Wrote
A letter came from Auntie Mabel today-- Saying how she’s tired of working for low pay, Seems her widowed sister has come to stay, The kids make too much noise when they play Keeps telling me she doesn’t have much to say, Still having trouble with a molar in final decay. Her nephew on her husband’s side turned gay And her favorite...

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Categories: mabel, family, relationship, writing,
Form: Alliteration
A Decade of Life
Your intricacies fearfully and wonderfully wrought so well, Sweet child, sweet daughter, greatly priced pearl, You’re a darling, a sweetheart, my dearest ‘Mabel’, Like your name, prayer born - meaning ‘Beautiful Girl’. And that endless innocence in your scintillating eyes, Each time I cup your face in my palm, Fails not, that ‘in-depth love’ to catch me by surprise, For your essence...

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Categories: mabel, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Mable
There was once a lady called Mable Whose knickers were up to her navel Her cupboards were bare There was no underwear So she nicked them from where she was able...

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Categories: mabel, analogy, appreciation, funny, humor,
Form: Limerick
My Sweet Aunt Mabel
There is my sweet Aunt Mabel sitting across the table ever since her divorce she eats like a horse so we put her up in a stable...

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Categories: mabel, family, food, horse, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Mabel Is There Every Day
If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open you will hear Mabel’s oration for the day. Mabel is there every day and her utterances vary. Today three strangers hear Mabel tell about neighborhood teens who park on her block and play their car radios loud into the night and keep...

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Categories: mabel, anger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mabel Vera Cone 1893-1911
Mabel Vera Cone 1893-1911 No one knew I existed. No one knew I died. No one, not even my family, Knew I lived in the back, Out back, way behind the small white house On shady Canobie Street. No one cared one iota. No one wondered where I was Or where I was going. If loneliness were a flower, I would be the faded one, Growing and struggling...

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Categories: mabel, death, lonely,
Form: Epitaph
Freddie and Mabel
Freddie and Mable they were so in love He took one look at Mabel’s knockers And billed and cooed like a silly turtle dove Oh but in size they were real big shockers When out shopping for panties and suitable bra Still Freddie did not falter, Mabel fit him to a tee “Love in bed you are my twinkling super star But...

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Categories: mabel, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mabel
The crisp cool breeze helped the sailboat to glide, like a swan on a lake, or the glory of a kite. The shiny exterior shone pearlescent white, the gold, christened lettering, gloriously reflecting the light. Newly purchased, fridge stocked, husband proudly at the wheel, his wife dressed in stripes, below, fussing about their meals. This was their retirement, the life they had planned, and then without warning, she felt dizzy;...

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Categories: mabel, death, devotion, husband, lost
Form: Free verse
Portrait of Mabel
As dawn cracks the sky and yellow light leaks through The neighbourhood oracle begins her day, sets out her stall on the corner near the station "The end is coming" The newspaper boy in his sister's scarf snatched in haste too early this morning, just before dawn, yawning he peddles past the prophetess. Her long hair writhes, arms paddle the air like a...

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Categories: mabel, life, people, social, light,
Form: Free verse

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