Best Layaway Poems

The “forthcoming” backtracks on dilly-dallied whispers.

They place verbal down payments on layaway,
Incomplete soul mates
Running on muted slow dances

Blanketing their pain

“Oh, how I always wished for...

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Amassed bulging clouds 
Dashing enmity fusion, 
generously hovering
In jellylike kneaded layaway 
Mysterious noir over
Prairies quietly resting
Suddenly trapped under
Vicious wind’s X rated
Yelling zeal.

CarolineCecile - 10.15.12...

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I drink too much
to get your images out of my head
but with no such luck
so i kept drinking instead
and with dread 
I'd wake up with...

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WHITE glistening snow
WHITE dove
DOVE of love
DOVE of purity
PURITY of intention
PURITY of child's innocence
INNOCENCE lost
INNOCENCE price was paid
PAID by charge
PAID by layaway
LAYAWAY in manager
LAYAWAY paid by...

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As I stepped out into the morning dew,
the rooster was crowing as roosters will do.
Then I sat down on an old oak log 
and down...

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After checking the Sears and Roebuck and Montgomery Wards catalogs until their pages were torn and faded, we took one last look at the sales...

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One day, not so long ago, when I was out playing with my dog Ruff, I met a very old woman. She looked very tired...

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Marble hatched haven communes; helixicly hewn canvas' brushed within

Acidulous acrylics of adumbrated conjectual forms....

Spawn tipped dippings upon the collateral cliffs edging these, layaway hues?!

Deciphered shades...

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Remember back when black people were friends because we only
had each other then

Back when we wore butterfly collar shirts platform shoes and mini skirts
when the...

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This Year, Underneath the Tree
By Rick Rucker

This year, underneath the tree,
Presents all around,
But, the one that can’t be found,
The one, that means the most to...

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It's funny how we associate things.  They become one with each other.  Who can imagine an Easter without the bunny, or losing a...

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Have I ever mentioned the way it is in life sometimes; my own meager thoughts!?

This Pop Culture, that has always lain at the forefront of...

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Where does time go
When time drifts by so slow
How does one really know
How to stop this ongoing picture show
When days get lost in the haze
How...

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My clothes came from
K-mart.
  They were on layaway
Until school starts.
  
  We would go out to eat,
Every now and then.
  We...

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I hope you're aware what you're doin' --
Got a bad feeling you're not
We may be headin' into ruin --
Maybe lookin' at the Doomsday clock

When that...

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