Best Manikins Poems
Los Angeles
...After we met
I thought we really had something,
Really hit it off.
It wasn’t the words we spoke,
The easy fluorescent trail they made.
Maybe it was the Japanese lantern
Glowing over your bare s......
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Categories:
manikins, longing, love,
Form:
Free verse
In the Groove
...Into the groove of unthinking action,
file after file of manikins pack in --
beings above see the circular groove
peopled with puppets, all on the move.
Deeper yet they wear the groove down;
man......
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Categories:
manikins, allegory, introspection, life, work,
Form:
Rhyme
Antonin Artaud Theater of Cruelty Or Joie De Vivre Part 3
...He was sitting alone in the corner
In a little cafe at the painting of Monet
And was talking to imaginary friend
About thinness opaqueness fear
Sensation of heat cold anger despair
Cruelty he c......
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Categories:
manikins, allusion, french, symbolism,
Form:
Ballad
The Manikin
...So many manikins
In the store windows
Dressed in fashion clothes
What does happen at night?
When no one is around?
I ponder this question
Do they come to life?
Walking on the floors?
Hav......
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Categories:
manikins, imagery,
Form:
Imagism
The Fear of Growing Older
...there are places and people in America
that are scared to death
of looking old and growing older
where a new wrinkle or two when found is a terrible scary thing
a birthday is not celebrated but......
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Categories:
manikins, age, beautiful, birthday, fate,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Fear of Getting Older
...there are places and people in America that are scared to death
of looking old and growing older
where a new wrinkle or two when found is a terrible scary thing
a birthday is not celebrated but ......
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Categories:
manikins, age, beauty, birthday, confusion,
Form:
Verse
Led By Dummies
...Headless manikins all in a roe
Which one will end up being the hoe?
If you could stand them out in the snow,
You would be amazed at which way they blow!
Punch them in the gut for they have no fee......
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Categories:
manikins, angst, dedication, introspection, loss,
Form:
Free verse
The Grey Man
...There were images the grey man could not see
Did not want to see, in all probability
Walking by the glass doors and windows of modern stores
No warmth of being within their cold crisp alloy fra......
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Categories:
manikins, life, poverty,
Form:
Rhyme
"honorable Project"
...“Honorable Project”
`Tis all we manikins that run in this race,
And only one that receives the one prize.
But the awesome truthfulness, of this,
Often we find on this, our think......
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Categories:
manikins, inspirational, love
Form:
Rhyme
A Notice To Our Customers
...Valued clients, we have listened,
and have taken on-board
your concerns and suggestions.
From now on, the display manikins will
be of a deep puce green color
so as not to marginalize
any et......
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Categories:
manikins, poetry,
Form:
Blank verse
Frenchman Flat
...Do I wake or dream?
Another one –
Life is a bowl of cherries.
One more –
Not with a whimper,
but with a bloody big bomb.
The house is ply-struts and particle composite.
Mum is cardboard,
bu......
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Categories:
manikins, poetry,
Form:
Blank verse
Looking Lace
...long legs looking
lace & doily,
fit for grandma’s
china cabinet
& just as porcelainesque
in perfectly painted lips
& an inanimate gaze,
but there’s nothing of pre-sexual
purity in those long ......
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Categories:
manikins, death, life, me, me,
Form:
Blank verse
Storm Clouds
...In the jumbled backyard of mind
they arrive in dark cowls,
gather behind an inverse eye,
wait there for the eyes themselves
to flip those images over into
a word chewing anger.
Manikins move ......
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Categories:
manikins, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Invasion of the Manikins
...Can you hear the hypnotic hum of the production line?
Education Rehabilitation factories rolling out images of humans made of plastic and wood.
Minds are erased of parental guidance.
Memory banks ......
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Categories:
manikins, appreciation, atheist, betrayal, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
Ragged People
...the homeless people
alive in cracks we avoid.
each displays no grace nor glory.
We turn our backs, are so annoyed.
Worn overcoats over scrim pajamas,
angled hair and leather-ed skin,
bags an......
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Categories:
manikins, abuse, addiction, blessing, environment,
Form:
Didactic