Best Chintz Poems

on chintz-clad window
frosty trees and ferns await
a melting moment...

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Mother would tuck into each dresser drawer,
                  ...

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A dusk, a glazed verandah, it's just rained,
a smell of lilac, earthworms and wet earth,
an awkward silence - the confusion chained
my tongue: “What if she’ll...

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A misty ocean 
touches umber cliffs as chintz 
grass tendrils downward 
toward tidal foam on summer's
tangerine and teal debut


7/22/17...

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She wore her skirt short,
her lingerie to be seen.
Such sights aplenty!

Gawking, gawping eyes
lusted at shear nudity.
They burned with hunger.

She proudly stood in
ruffled edges of cheap...

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Spring inks 
cherry blossoms
in pinks.

Dabs lean
weeping willows
lime green.

And tints
blue waters like
glazed chintz.


(Musette)


4/2/2021


Photo #3
Finding Your Musette 2 Poetry Contest
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Hotel terraces art nouveau  ironwork  and  interiors
Mother of pearl cufflinks painters actors musicians
Scooters racing around an antiquity filled Italian city
Mediterranean charm "How...

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It was old fashioned shopping,....floors were warm planks of wood
Where footsteps sounded hallow, and the walls were lined with goods
A “5 and 10” cent heaven,...

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~~~~~~~~                     Pink Polyester Pants ...

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Boy :
deep beneath the veil
behind creaking songs of mouth -
felt fragrance of love

Girl :
nah! torpor dreamer
fret over your own fancies -
stars won't shine the day

Boy...

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With a knock upon my dressing room doors
I enter stage right to rapturous applause
And I sit before a white grand piano
So excited to perform
Gershwin’s Rhapsody...

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Callie

Rocking in a chintz platform rocker,
Wearing a patio dress,
Day after day she hums a song,
“With someone like you.”

Through the window she watches,
He left her far...

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Ladies, your shopping acumen
is well known, but every now and then
it wouldn’t hurt to take a man’s advice
especially if the item is triple in price!
So,...

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Dear Shari Todd – written July 29, 2015

While rifling thru outdated writing, 
     which virtual thumbing
     wrought...

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Walking in curiosity's footprints,
I wander through life like a beachcomber.
But I seek wit above trinkets and chintz,
tracking thinkers and poets like Homer.
Many see me as...

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