Best Bowtie Poems

waiting
with diaper on 
for this woman to get up 
off the kitchen floor and
stop bleeding while a man 
hovers over her with grimace 
and clinched fist

waiting
for our first-grade teacher 
to stop crying 
over the P.A. announcement 
that the president 
has just been assassinated 
in Dallas

waiting
on...

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Black Powder
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He waits offstage, his posture tense,
his gaze locked on the audience -
his first in years.

He blots the sweat that wets his face,
then walks onstage and gets in place,
amidst their cheers.

In bowtie, vest and dinner tails,
he's dressed down to his fingernails.
His face is flushed.

His eyes...

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Hoo-ya, hoo-ya, ziss boom bah!
My doctor has given me a thumbs up
I'm good to go for another year
Let's see, how should I celebrate?
Perhaps I'll try going a day without my walker
Just kidding! I don't use a walker

Hoo-ya, hoo-ya, ziss boom bah!
Maybe I'll try dressing myself...

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Trip We Will Never Forget

I always had wondered just how wacky
Was my wife who is a luscious lovely lady
Who around world wanted to go on a cruise
And taking me along with her to amuse.

Sailed and smiled in and out of each port
An envoy of entertainers...

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Androgynous Angel in white
Wings of satin about to take flight 
like some Space Oddity
searching for a bit of life. 
I gaze in fascination at this being
which entered my house as a vinyl cover.
You flirt around my consciousness
morphing again and again;
speaking to me from your place...

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pink flower, pink flower.
one for me, one for he.
we dare not look into our togetherness eyes,
a bit shy.
my pink perkiness in a heart shape -
my billowing knees.

pink flower, pink flower.
one for me, one for he.
the yellow power of his hair.
my brunette cascade over naked shoulders.
will...

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Ryan and Amy are getting married next month…as couples often do…
As the father of the groom in honor of their tying the knot…I thought I’d tie one too.

When I found the perfect bow tie…I knew I had to buy it…
and by my calculations I had...

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What's the point wake up in the shadowless world 
A sunless sky
I ask you now why should I try
why should i buy into all of the things people find so worthwhile
why do i want to be so different?
i can hear the music

through my window i...

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Hoo-ya, hoo-ya, ziss boom bah!
My doctor has given me a thumbs up
I'm good to go for another year
Let's see, how should I celebrate?
Perhaps I'll try going a day without my walker
Just kidding! I don't use a walker

Hoo-ya, hoo-ya, ziss boom bah!
Maybe I'll try dressing myself...

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Does he notice? I scribble,
gripping my writer’s notebook
with the steady grip that I can only
manage when on vacation.
I write about the way he stands,
face to the incoming sea breeze,
shoes to the salt water,
not stepping back or caring.

Nor should I care: I write about
the fact that...

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Hoo-ya, hoo-ya, ziss boom bah!
My doctor has given me a thumbs up
I'm good to go for another year
Let's see, how should I celebrate?
Perhaps I'll try going a day without my walker
Just kidding! I don't use a walker

Hoo-ya, hoo-ya, ziss boom bah!
Maybe I'll try dressing myself...

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What's the point wake up in the shadowless world 
A sunless sky
I ask you now why should I try
why should i buy into all of the things people find so worthwhile
why do i want to be so different?
i can hear the music

through my window i...

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Have you ever gone out to the garage, slid behind the wheel of that Bowtie, twisted the key and lit off that big Rat …
Rolled out to the middle of the culdesac, two clicks down into low, left foot over the brake while you slowly...

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There once was a boy named Brad
Loved to wear a bowtie made of plaid
He looked like a nerd the way he was clad
But he barely knew how to add

Get some sun kept repeating his dad
Couch potato is a real bad fad
There are things to do...

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So what country did you make?
Is it a penthouse, or a rented cubbyhole
in the same sky high city where the difference
is the size of your hold-out that can also peer out.
When the TV is silent and sullen
 do you wonder
what other country you belong to?
Do...

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