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Today’s task to absorb the definitions of these words: Razzle: showiness that astonishes; Dazzle: amaze, brightness, brilliance, glare; Sparkle: effervescence, excel, shine, vivacity, energy, oomph, gusto. Write using the meanings energy of these words.
The Razzle Dazzle Club was the place
Where everybody jived about all over the place
Everybody moved everybody grooved
At the Razzle Dazzle Club every night.
You’d see Bobby and Mary Lou
Cruising doin’ the boogie too
It’s all bling and party swing
Shiny, sparkling with bubbling effervescence.
Carol Ann and Darcy Bill
Energy bouncing from the window sills
Fling each other across the floor
Their vivacity infects us all.
There’s drinks a plenty at the Razzle Dazzle
Some with oomph and some to guzzle
You’ll never be astonished, just amazed
At the Razzle Dazzle Club tonight.
Written for: https://dversepoets.com/2016/10/04/razzle-dazzle-me/
Morpethroad 
Bring me there!!!! I want to come and dance the night away! Reminds me of a place my folks used to go in Grayslake, Illinois, near the military base, called the Argonne Ballroom. There was jive and lots of swaying too — live orchestras that enabled folks to cut a rug, so to speak. Sounds like the Razzle Dazzle Club could be similar 🙂 LOVE IT!
LOVE this, Michael. I was tap-tap-tapping along, in my fanciest, most blinged-out dancing shoes!
Thank you so much..its all about having fun when you throw up words like razzle dazzle….
Right? I love words so much.
I have to admit taking some of the words from a song I wrote in a musical many years ago….good how the past can come in handy every so often..
What a fun poem! It begs to be read out loud. I like the name “Darcy Bill.” Unusual and vivid.
Thank you Marilyn….I had to have a name I could could rhyme to….
Yay, needs a tune. It had a tune while I was reading it. And some twangy guitar sounds and maybe a tambourine???
Its a very rock n roll tune Sarah….12 bar blues actually…..though I had to modify some of the words today to make it work a little better as a poem…thanks so much for stopping by…
This is so much fun to read out loud 😀 Great job, Michael ❤
Thank you Sanaa
As I was reading your energetic poem, I kept hearing bits of the ‘Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company D’!
Thank you Kim, good to know you had those feet bopping along.
What a fun poem! I love your rhymes as well. Great work!
Thanks Toni…glad you enjoyed my poem..
You’ve delightfully captured the razzle-dazzle nostalgia of an era perfectly here. I love this! I can see couples twirling and dipping, and the effervescent sparkle of their shoes and dance costumes.
Thank you so much appreciate your comment….
I really love the way you have used the names… they so belong to a razzle-dazzle club… 🙂
Thanks Bjorn lovely to read your comment…
Love this and began to tap my feet before I spun my chair around! :o)
Its that sort of a place isn’t it, foot tapping and chair swinging….have a good day…
Thank you Michael, you too 🎵🎶
My pleasure and thanks for the follow..
Closed my eyes after reading and heard the tap of shoes and the sounds of a big band. Evocative writing.
Thanks so much Paul..glad you could visualise the action..
Oh, yes. I was dancing right along in my mind
Good to know…
such a delighting and fun poem, Michael!
Thank you Rose, lovely you could stop by…
always a pleasure. 😉
Sounds like a Razzle Dazzle Club theme song to me. Love the rhyme and boppity-bop rhythm.
Thank you Mish, yes you are very correct it was the Club theme song…
Wonderful rhythm in this, and I love the line “You’ll never be astonished, just amazed”
Thank you Bryan.
At
56.. i
mostly
write now to
rest my dancing
Feat.. Tonight..
haha.. i kid you
not.. i will be a main
attraction at A razzle
dazzle dance club all for free..
and sure.. i could say i was bragging
as i’ve been named a Metro area dance
legend2.. by the audience2.. but i earned
that legend2
better
as a shut
in For 66 months
first as A Hunch Back
of Notre Dame.. bottom
line my friEnd.. it’s never
too late for A razzle dazzle
miracle.. no matter how dArk the
night
of
soul
growS old.. or goeS on..:)
Thank you…have fun😄
SMiles.. will do..
my friEnd..:)
This is somewhere I want to visit – and dance in!
Well Freya you never know when it might be open next…thanks for stopping by…