Famous Clippers Poems by Famous Poets

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Bad Day At The Beauty Salon

...g club."

"What?"

"Baby, let me tell you, the boys are gonna like a bald go go dancer."

That said, she whips out some clippers, shaves my head smooth and insists
I'm gonna love getting naked for a living.

None of this sounds like my idea of a good time, but I'm broke and I'm
bald so I go home and get my best panties. Suzee lends me some 6 inch pumps,
paints my lips bright red, and gives me 7 shots of Jack Daniels to relax
me. 

8pm that night I take the stage.

I'm bald, 
...Read more of this...
by Estep, Maggie


Bridge Over The Aire Book 5

...se devils.

There were twopenny packets of stamps for my Royal Mail Album

Stately portraits of Sun Yat Sen, Gold Coast clippers, salt

Gatherers on a palm-fringed shore - ‘Turks and Caicos Islands’.





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Len the cobbler kept tacks beneath his tongue, a trick

He was taught at Cobblers’ College; he said he could spit

Them straight into the leather but only without an audience

Whose eyes stopped the magic from working.



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Up Easy Road was Rocket’s Greengrocers - St...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry

For A Row Of Laurel Shrubs

...level seems
 Alien to them, and they aren't in the least

Discouraged by being suddenly lopped off
 Year after year by clippers or the stuttering
 Electric teeth of trimmers hedging their bets
To keep them all in line, all roughly

 In order. They don't even
 Want to be good-neighborly bushes
(Though under the outer stems and leaves
 The thick, thick-headed, soot-blackened

 Elderly branches have been dodging
And weaving through so many disastrous springs,
 So many whacked-o...Read more of this...
by Wagoner, David

Over The Parapet

...e spent.
It's little the time there is to waste now,
 If I'd do the job for which I was sent.
My bombs are right and my clippers ready,
 And I wriggle out to the chosen place,
When I hear a rustle . . . Steady! . . . Steady!
 Who am I staring slap in the face?

There in the dark I can hear him breathing,
 A foot away, and as still as death;
And my heart beats hard, and my brain is seething,
 And I know he's a Hun by the smell of his breath.
Then: "Will you surrender?" I whisp...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

Song of the Broad-Axe

...ion of States, 
Long stately rows in avenues, hospitals for orphans, or for the poor or sick, 
Manhattan steamboats and clippers, taking the measure of all seas. 

The shapes arise!
Shapes of the using of axes anyhow, and the users, and all that neighbors them, 
Cutters down of wood, and haulers of it to the Penobscot or Kennebec, 
Dwellers in cabins among the California mountains, or by the little lakes, or on the
 Columbia,

Dwellers south on the banks of the Gila or Rio Gr...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt


The Mary Gloster

...nd living the Lord knew how,
We started the Red Ox freighters -- we've eight-and-thirty now.
And those were the days of clippers, and the freights were clipper-freights,
And we knew we were making our fortune, but she died in Macassar Straits --
By the Little Patemosters, as you come to the Union Bank --
And we dropped her in fourteen fathom: I pricked it off where she sank.
Owners we were, full owners, and the boat was christened for her,
And she died in the Mary Gloster. My...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket

...s,
sea-monsters, upward angel, downward fish:
Unmarried and corroding, spare of flesh
Mart once of supercilious, wing'd clippers,
Atlantic, where your bell-trap guts its spoil
You could cut the brackish winds with a knife
Here in Nantucket, and cast up the time
When the Lord God formed man from the sea's slime
And breathed into his face the breath of life,
And blue-lung'd combers lumbered to the kill.
The Lord survives the rainbow of His will....Read more of this...
by Lowell, Robert

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