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Alex, the only rule here is that we don't need no stinkin' rules and everyone seems to agree except the occasional pedant. A clever sentence would be welcomed by all so try it. What are they gonna do...pout? 
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With engine's roar, cowlings a-clanking,
North Korea tried upping its ranking.
They attempted spaceflight;
To the free world's delight,
They embarrassingly got a spanking.
SCALLAWAG – SCARLET LETTER
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Only a geophalous* scalawag would say that the scarlet letter is a sign worn by adulteresses. My friends in Tuscaloosa know better. The scarlet letter is the Crimson A that proudly proclaims the advent of a repeating National Football Champion - the mighty Alabama Crimson Tide.  Roll Tide Roll * tsuwm's worthless word of the day meaning: dirt eaters . FLESH - FLASH
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Young ladies flash flesh,
Wirecutters mash mesh,
Old ladies pat pets,
Fruit pickers pack pecks.
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I coulda been somebody; coulda been a contender Coulda made some movies and become a big spender I'd be like Stanley Kubrick And make up my own rubric I'd ruffle the baddest man on Earth after my transgender  YARDSTICK - XYLOPHONE
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I traded a used xylophone
For a two-valve B-flat bass trombone
And a yardstick of steel:
Now each measure is REAL!
I only play deep in the zone.
EXHALATION - EXPANDED
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Peter, I just love this one!
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I could ALMOST retire on that!
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God made the cosmos single-handed;
From a minuscule dot it expanded.
Divine exhalation
Caused rapid inflation
(More like a huge sneeze, to be candid).
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Best one yet, AC, to be, uh...(how can I say this?)... candid.
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Peter and AC - very fine, very!
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I wish to associate myself with both jj and Lukes plaudits. jj, yours was very sweet; are you sure you are not - uh - (how can I say this) --- being candied?
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The tongue of the Danes makes me choke
As though I had breathed in strong smoke.
I have just a smattering
But find it quite shattering
When only a few words I’ve spoke!
FINGERING - FIRE
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I will share this with a Danish friend. He'll enjoy.
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One of my Danish friends explained to me that, "Danish is not so much a language, more an affliction of the throat!"
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I hired a painter to paint my girlfriend Galore He paints houses nudes portraits and more I had to fire him on the spot Because honorable he was not I walked in and he was goldfingering my Galore OBJECT -NYMPH
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Many of us here at Wordsmith eventually Bond.
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An artist whose style was aesthetic
Drew nymphs who looked unenergetic.
With their heads drooping low
They were objects of woe;
One critic harrumphed: "How emetic!"
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AC, your good poem reminded me that...
A print not a painting hung on my wall
Three ballerinas sitting in a hall
Their energy spent
The elan then went
To me wondering why they cared at all.
Do you know of that painting?
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Possibly this painting by Trent Gudmundsson?
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Possibly this painting by Trent Gudmundsson? No. Looking at the Gudmundsson painting everyday for three years would have made me a better person. How wonderful. But no, instead my wall spoke the lanquid pathos of three skinny long-legged fatigued dancers without tutu's painted in a style that could be described as latter-day art deco. Even today I am depressed. 
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The scoreboard starts at birth on the hour The question; is your life yours or our? All good and bad deeds We score to our needs And at death the scoreboard we will scour HAPPY - HAPAX LEGOMENA
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SCOREBOARD – SCOUR
The washing contest’s under way,
There’s prizes to be won;
Tubs and soap-cakes boldly lay
On trestles ‘neath the sun.
No marks yet on the scoreboard:
Laundresses darkly glower
And, hunched up o’er their wash-boards,
The dirty vestments scour.
FOLDER - FOLIAR
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I've a folder of hapax legomena
And other rare verbal phenomena;
Its great foliar size
Gives much happy surprise,
Like the term henpecked husbands use: "Domina".
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I've been struggling, almost from my birth
To write words of some lasting worth.
Possibly this rhyme game
Is my ticket to fame;
Otherwise, I'll have posthumous dearth.
CROC – CROSS-CHECK
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I wonder: just what is "a croc?"
Terra cotta pot, chipped by a rock?
Before I cross-check
I'll stick out my neck:
It's a 'gator that's going "Tick-Tock!"
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Where to go from here? What is my choice? I feel as if I've lost my voice. You've made us bereft, No guideword right or left. I'm thinking that's not very noice! 
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A remonstrance on me you've served, I fear that it is well deserved! My mind was in foment From a Senior Moment: I think I was slightly unnerved.  MAIZE - MAKE
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Forgive him, tromboniator. Anyone who concocts a "croc" as a "crocodile who goes tick tock" needs a well-earned rest. Most men go their entire lifes without such an exalted construction.
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Since I have just finished reading Peter Pan for the first time, I can forgive most anything, even if it's all a croc.
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Said Peter to Wendy, "Let's fly!"
She tought he meant up in the sky.
But, despite what he'd said,
She ended in bed
With a scream, then a satisfied sigh!
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Maize, maize, a cash crop that pays
Mash, mash, make it nice and fast
Boil it for an hour
Longer makes it sour
Moonshine, moonshine, unsurpassed
DIMORPHISM - DIRT
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Jim Barrie sure knew how to write
A story to thrill and excite.
Children now handle passion
In full adult fashion,
And leave windows open at night.
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Good, Peter, but I am not convinced, no open windows
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No, but you are not a child. Leaving windows open is in addition to adult passion fashion, not an example of it. At least in my latest world construct.
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Whatever happened to
HAPAX LEGOMENA,
Proferred by J-J from
Low Aberdeen?
Happy I am to re-
Spond double-dactylly,
Limerick, no, but
Perhaps in between.
DIMORPHISM - DIRT
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Dimorphism's always overt
In sport, where the hue of a shirt
Identifies teams
And inspires the fans' dreams,
Unless it is hidden by dirt.
HOOCH – HOOPLA
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Whatever happened to
HAPAX LEGOMENA,
Proferred by J-J from
Low Aberdeen?
Happy I am to re-
Spond double-dactylly,
Limerick, no, but
Perhaps in between.
You missed my post about Lexicographical Oddities, in which the Term may be seen.
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At New Year's, at midnight, a smooch,
Generated by excess of hooch.
In general, the hoopla
Entails more than a coopla
Large flagons of champagne or Scootch.
HASTY PUDDING – HAVE
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