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Backless Poems - Poems about Backless

Premium MemberI'm All That and an Appreciative Hat

...I'm just an old-fashioned, flannel lumberjack shirt.
My father was some overalls, a farmer of dirt.
I'm a worn out and holey pair of cotton socks,
An unwanted sweater, packed away in a box.

My ...
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Categories: backless, age, clothes, father, humor,
Form: Rhyme

College-League Baseball Sonnet

...Small stadium built in the late forties,
minor-league once, but has been left behind,
built with girders and backless, wooden seats,
a local relic of an older time.
The players look so young, bar...
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Categories: backless, america, appreciation, baseball, imagery,
Form: Sonnet



Premium MemberEric Clapton Inspiration

...Eric Clapton (born March 30, 1945, in Ripley, Surrey, England)
British guitarist who influenced rock.
Later became a famous singer-songwriter.
Clapton was born to a teen mom and a Cana...
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Categories: backless, analogy, appreciation, celebrity, history,
Form: Bio

Premium MemberMore Jazz Please

...My roommates Leong, Sophie, (Charles) and I were coming from a Yale sporting event. The sky looked like a dirty Swiffer-mop and the wind seemed to be ignoring the posted 20mph speed limit. It was a t...
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Categories: backless, food, friendship, fun, god,
Form: Free verse

A Soft Bitter Slur

...Now, in her solitude she sits draped in mock fur, 
As the movie spool ends, silver lights begin to fade,
So, she slurps on her sorrows with a soft bitter slur

‘The sheer backless organza’ – a re...
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Categories: backless, career, emotions, heartbreak, pain,
Form: Villanelle



God's Belove

...You belong to another world when you fall in love 
Especially with the ONE above 
You will surely become gentle like a dove
And enjoys been His darling belove

But never should you feel helpless...
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Categories: backless, age, birthday, celebration, christian,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHot In Havana

...Hot In Havana.
.
It was a sweltering hot sticky Havana summers
Velvet star-studded night
I was sat enjoying the scene
In a dance bar
As someone played the piano accordion
And guitar
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Sudden...
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Categories: backless, dance, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberQueen of the Willows and the Woods

...Queen of the willows, ferns, shadows and moss.
Her miniature dragon perched on her lap with pleasure,
Both together adding to verdant forest a duo treasure.
Unclear to the feral and fey which one ...
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Categories: backless, nature,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Premium MemberBlue Dress

...Put your blue dress on
and let your hair down too-
your hair that is so beautiful
you need no fancy “do.”

That gown a royal blue -
you know the one I mean!
The sequins on its bodice
make you...
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Categories: backless, beautiful,
Form: Quatrain

A Poem To Close Your Eyes

...A poem to close your eyes 


 "I close my eyes and see a flock of birds. The vision lasts a second, or perhaps less; I am not sure how many birds I saw. Was the number of birds definite...
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Categories: backless, angel, bird, cry, flying,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Holy Array

...S-imply wear your holy array, 
U-sing your sacred attire; 
N-ever get yourself in disorder, 
S-o you won't suffer the Father's ire. 
H-oly array during worship service 
I-s commanded by the Almi...
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Categories: backless, birthday,
Form: Acrostic

Dreamlove

...they met, once upon a time-
her silky hand melds with his
for but a moment 
an exchanged glance, fleeting
chocolate brown orbs
swimming in pools of milk
ebony hair dancing across her 
backless...
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Categories: backless, desire, dream, longing, love,
Form: Free verse

Sex On Fire

...SEX  ON FIRE
She silently retires to his secret chamber.
Knowing he was waiting for her...
The doors were locked
the windows closed.
Her backless bodycon...
abandons her ...
as he removes all ...
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Categories: backless, desire, passion, sexy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSchoolboy

...Schoolboy

Can this be school? So dark and worn
a backless seat, walls of scorn.
Someone said, “We need a school.
This cement relic here will do.”

There sits a boy who’s come to learn.
S...
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Categories: backless, boy, poverty, school,
Form: Quatrain

Psychotic Trip

...PSYCHOTIC JOURNEY
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


Feeling really beat,  I went to bed early last night
Suddenly awakened feeling something’s not right
There was total darkness, I was not in my room
Lyin...
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Categories: backless, allegory, allusion, dark, dream,
Form: Rhyme

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