Best Decals Poems

Affluent and formal
pink lilies deck the tables;
we await the 
sweet, affected 
laughter of our  friends.
Bedecked in bouffant hair-do's
perfumes, ermines, jewels
brocades and buckled shoes,
we dazzle,...

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Dedicated to the 2000 National College Football Champions, the Oklahoma Sooners 

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Over fifty years, boy and man, I’ve been a Sooners fan
Watched and reveled in...

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The cigar box reposed upon the closet shelf for nigh on fifty years.
Oft his family wondered what it held.  Perhaps some treasured souvenirs?
The old...

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It would not be such a stretch
To think that every kid
Drew pictures on an Etch-A-Sketch,
Like all my peers once did.

It was a toy that everyone
Possessed...

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Red paint upon this stage
Overdrive from electric strums
Crowds gather from every age
Knife decals cross on drums
Brand new fender blue tinge
Arrival at airports always delay
Noon prompts...

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you disturbed the wild geese as your truck 
rushed out of the drive way my heart panted 

as I noticed the peeling logo on the...

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Deserted we lie, banished to a shoe box; discarded metal
scraping metal every spring as our ignored box gets shelved 
in a different room of the...

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You're as cool as a parrot
who has to wear my fashion.
With just your leather jacket
to only share our passion.

With hair that's long and plenty
for making...

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The pickup truck ahead of us
Had decals on the glass,
The first a flag – American – 
Like many cars we pass.

The second, a machine gun,
At...

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I find myself around the backs of things.
A more comfortable reality it presents;
    A dirty bowl that’s never refilled,
   ...

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We paddle through small talk,
I like her, she has style.
I imagine we have a history together
back in an old movie that I have yet to...

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Through a bathroom mirror
a naked ape looks
at its reflection.

Waiting for coffee,
reading fridge magnets,
I'm surprised how interesting
the world is
when stamped into rubber decals.

Until now I've avoided
talking...

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Reading my fridge magnets,
I’m surprised how interesting
the world is
when stamped into rubber decals.
Rome, Ankara, both Buda and Pest.

I watch an oscilloscope between my ears,
the spikes...

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   Symbols cry in dry ice theater -
the expanse of aesthetic visa-
drawn-
from the romance of the silvery eye -
as it golden advances the...

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In the shadows of my half-waked condition of terra firma- patronus renditioned, I mudder into your soil,
snorkel into your swamp of inlet tributary, a flagellum...

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