Best Coat Hanger Poems

The Coat Hanger

Let's travel back in time to 1928, the place is Sydney (Australia)
The local government wanted to create a harbour crossing from 
the North...

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We weren't rich by any means
but our bellies were full and our clothes were clean

They didn't display those high priced names
but they wore fine just...

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If I were to swagger off the streets
Some gangster as I perched the skulduggery 
Of my litany in glitter and smoke
An ageless vandalism to linger...

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The unborn dreams of a fertilization  – 1942
A long journey  – A long lived  nightmare

The journey begins without knowledge, just passion.
Life emerges,...

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Fireworks

Dark night, people gather
droves flock, multitudinous
happy hope filled faces. 
Young, shoulder borne
before lapping water, curved sails, coat hanger.
Dimples and shining eyes turned skyward.

Pointing gesticulating laughter
fellowship....

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by Robert (Bob) Moore © 2016

For all who suffer Arthritic pain
they know when it’s going to rain
aches in joints, won’t go away
just got to get...

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T      h      I      n


Thin girl
What are they selling you
In those...

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On your right lies a skirt full of deceit and frustration 
entwined within me.

On your left hangs a dress full of anger on a plastic...

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This morning’s sunrise was a tacky and artificial affair. 
The sun was played by a weak, 12-watt, refrigerator bulb
that looked wet and heavy as it...

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I quite enjoyed writing these two line poems for the Bantu contest - the idea of the call and response with two different statements but...

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The 70's brought a wake-up call,  embracing some needed change.
Some women with unwanted pregnancies were self-mutilating, so insane.
It seems we are now regressing like...

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Cheap trance thievery
Epstein coat hanger kisses
life in them 'thar hills...

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She was all over the county with her answers.
Where was your child born?
I do not recall.
How many times have you been married?
Blue diamonds are the...

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The night was rainy, hot and humid. It was the kind of night that populates steamy, black and white, noir movies where someone is murdered....

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Other day
Saw bare Coat hanger
Just after Coat was taken off 

At first sight 
hanger seemed cast in a maze
Looked empty, incomplete, lonely.
But, after few moments...

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