Best Armrest Poems

On a dreary day, the sky hangs, like layers of grey cotton wool 
As I am curled up warm and toasty next to a roaring...

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Written: February 19, 2024
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The dam,...

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To all my Poetic Family, I would like to start a new word game It's very easy You pick a word
Define it and sign your...

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Next day after the funeral was a celebration of life
at Mom's/Grandma's for a grand supper with memories ripe
afterwards eldest suggested we take some memento's 
going...

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I had a long argument today...
Whilst sitting by the 
surcharging charging airport port,
shouldertoshoulder with this pastor.

Delayed flight and low juice
kept us there, squared off;
shoulder to...

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I live in the fall, 
the dying nation between two worlds.
I am barefoot, 
strapped to a catapult. 
I toil where the dark storms brew.
I see...

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Fighting for that last chocolate chip cookie
Arguing over the doll you know is yours
Fighting for the front seat in the van
Arguing over who got more...

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Men at work, bumper to bumper
tensile traffic, thick black bitumen.
Everything seems to last longer 
then that grey granulated concrete

that extends from Bodega, Cali-
fornia to Savannah,...

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congregate and anticipate please,
eliminate traces of old dirty fleas.
please don't confuse any old thoughts with these.
christmas trees smell better without presents.

pungent, pulpy stenches float up...

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As I ponder upon each breath done well
Without melancholy or deep sadness
Life's brush will paint my worn soul in pastel
Calm memories I have of its...

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Space travel in ordinary time,

The woman tries to concentrate on her book
on change and the power of positive thinking.

She is not succeeding because 

Her seatbelt...

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Lies Lies Lies

In the passengers seat
There's only an armrest between us
Why does it feel like a big vast sea
Your lies sink like a million fish...

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Today

Today is a day that we will never forget,
Playing over in our minds like that favorite cassette!
Thoughts rippling like water, reflecting the sunlit sky,
While the...

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When People of Size Take to the Skies

By Elton Camp 

When the extremely obese get onboard a plane
About their comfort and “rights” they complain

They forget...

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I am almost embarrassed to admit 
that spread out along the armrest
of a lounge chair, a fox fur
complete with head and feet
has found a refuge...

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