Best Buttoned Poems
Never Out of Season - a Short Story
...I was wiping the dust off an old snow globe in the upstairs attic, when a mop of honey-blonde hair suddenly appeared through the wooden flooring.
"I thought I'd find you here," said the voice, ......
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Categories:
buttoned, august, bereavement, blue, christmas,
Form:
Narrative
swirling seven-stars
...Life is never a planned ride
on a magical carpet,
that awakens jasmine
dreams lost in the brisk air.
We weave our own
zest of zephyr,
to tailor-stitch a tapestry;
buttoned w......
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Categories:
buttoned, emotions, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Things People Wear From a To Z
...A is for Aprons, like Moms used to wear.
B is for Barrettes that adorn young girls’ hair.
C is for Coats, many colors and styles.
D is for Diamonds, best friends that brings smiles.
E is for Elbow ......
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Categories:
buttoned, humorous, clothes,
Form:
ABC
Peaches and Cream
...She was looking my way, I had nothing to say,
Though I'd dreamed that this day would transpire;
With her beaux all around, why would she look at me
With such interest and playful desire?
She wa......
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Categories:
buttoned, beauty, first love, flower,
Form:
Quatrain
Unquotable Quotes Viiil: Sexual Harassment - the Feminist Kind
...Unquotable Quotes VIIIL : SEXUAL HARASSMENT* - the feminist kind
(*”aggressive pressure or intimidation”: Is it really “any different” in most cases in the act, judging by Hollywood standards?)......
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Categories:
buttoned, beautiful, crush, cute love,
Form:
Free verse
Hidden Desires
...My fantasies are lost;
Into the wild I could not chase.
Closing my eyes, I desired for your touch.
I felt your fingers running through my hair.
I shivered to your soft lips touching my skin.
I l......
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Categories:
buttoned, love, passion,
Form:
Free verse
Morning Ride
...The lamp outside my lodgings cut through fog of dirty grey,
I donned my coat and hat ready to start another day.
The sound of hooves on cobbles meant my transport was at hand
I stepped onto the pa......
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Categories:
buttoned, car,
Form:
Rhyme
Backyard Party
...Blue Jays and Black birds and half a dozen squirrels.
Sprinkled with Sparrow's, it's become quite a world.
Occasional Cardinal to add a little spice.
They seem to all be getting along fairly nice.......
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Categories:
buttoned, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
If A Musicbox Was Cold Language
...
... I live then by the cold while in Summer
Would that I could back these places in time —
Even its iron still buried in ice
There on my skin, the buttoned September.
— Tongue chases the buds f......
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Categories:
buttoned, angst, child, conflict, innocence,
Form:
Hybronnet
Off To Aunty Millie's
...school broke up and summers here
shipped off, a long bus ride
every holiday off I'd go
to my aunts house by the sea side
she opened the door, gave a monster hug
this lady seemed immense
the f......
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Categories:
buttoned, childhoodme, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Waiting In the Wings (A Study of Alzheimers)
...The colors she wore clashed in confusion.
One sock grey, one sock blue
as her mind wandered ... where?
She never knew her name
called out of the fog.
The blouse buttoned wrong
with sleeves t......
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Categories:
buttoned, health
Form:
Free verse
Taste of Innocence
...Buttoned-up sunshine silhouette
draped in early evening fantasy
captured in aromatic ecstasy
let me
d e
o a
w s
n y
let me
wander
in your
b r
e e
......
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Categories:
buttoned, love,
Form:
Free verse
Fashioned Fortitude
...A mirror never reveals
fallen secrets sewn with soulful sequins;
time unmutes raven melodies within,
tawny tunes of truth~
I once spoke in colorful dialects.
Now, I trust just the......
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Categories:
buttoned, gothic,
Form:
Free verse
The Strasbourg Dancing Sickness
...
Is dance a metaphor for sex?
You’d think so if you knew my ex
(at least the barflies all believe
she’s hoarding something up her sleeve).
But what makes people want to dance?
An aural frenzy? ......
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Categories:
buttoned, dance,
Form:
Couplet
Pemigewasset Wilderness
...We stitched our ribbons through your heart
From end to end we threaded
We sewed right to your fingertips
– And every stitch you dreaded
We tramped along your shoulders broad
To weave our littl......
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Categories:
buttoned, nature,
Form:
Rhyme