Best Shirts Poems

That day by the lake,
tattered jeans and old t-shirts,
my hand in your back pocket as we walked,
your thumb
hooked over the top of my waistband.
It was hot,
...damned hot.

You tilted your hat at a silly angle and laughed,
I looked over and thought
'Hot,
...damned hot'

Smiles exchanged and then a...

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Hot was the room that she sweated a lot,
as the maid tired,
ironing
white shirts 
for
her
master
who wanted
to be dandy
when he toyed with the ladies at the ball.

17 November 2020

Double Tetractys 6 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Eve Roper

Picture No 2


Placed 1





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She cannot thread a needle
       or sew a fancy shirt
     Her fingers know not gardens
       or digging in the dirt

     But she listens to me...

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Going through a closet,
I was quite surprised to find
Several shopping bags of t-shirts
That my son had left behind.

While looking at them, one by one,
I realized they portrayed
His entire growing up, through college,
Starting in first grade.

The school shirts featured P.S. 6,
Then Wagner Junior High,
With a special...

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In my shirts your touch
In my tea your moonlit shade
In my boat your rhythmic swing
Since you left this house
All blue-green leaves have wilted
Smoke irritates my lone lungs

I first tried the books
Your intense eyes on each page
On bedsheets your brown hairclip
I look for warm breath 
All...

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Black band t shirts
And faded blue jeans
Combined to clothed creativity
In a child who silently screams
Isolated and introverted youth
Cynicism constantly growing
Dark moments and blue bruises
Covered by the logo showing

Mind numbing frailties
and paralyzing self-doubt
His world is ten feet of shadow
His idols help him speak out
Vicariously living through...

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it was a day after the rain 
but we didn't care 
bought two packs of beer
the smell of the boat 
as the engine let off smoke 
the first turn of the key 
would bring us to our beach 
a few cans pushed back 
we could...

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In round collars,
O-shirts,
Not T-shirts!...

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though we taste the mist upon our lips,
our sleep is more the restless,
as beauty escapes rhythm and fury....

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Pretty young lady using
t-shirt written UGLY PRO,
is at risk of kidnapping ...

Bearing Man T-Shirt
with target drawing and writing
SHOOTING, is at risk of
be targeted ...

Who wears a shirt
portrait of UNCLE SAM, run
risk of being summoned by
american army for
being a volunteer soldier in Iraq ...
That was in...

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Humble stone was intolerably warm,
That ice block was numbing cold,
Those nails were pining to pierce,
The poisonous worms and snakes in jungle,
Were ready to sink in their stocks,
I was to sit,squat,walkand run in these environs,
I squirmed to think,
What would have happened if,
We as a civilization,
Not invented...

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In response to an Internet company and its plans to market T shirts featuring an inhumane human being.

Come gather round people, come gather round more
Come buy your T shirt, with its tale of the moor
Come buy your T shirt and wear it with pride
A. T...

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It is if she had wrote the narrative to my life.
A foolish man she made me: me thinking
that I could exist until then< the day
we meet and have the right words to put
our future into perspective. "Might the nights of
Lovers make me her's". Than might...

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Looking back
curiously acquiescent
in 4th floor chaos

Looking through these
dresser drawers of
sleepy underclothing

Retrospective shirts
and tiresome socks,
these sheaths of self
more coincidental 
than designed

Everything ajar,
windows, doors
              my dresser drawers

Clues left coyly
in my path
by boorish poltergeists

Half absent,
I...

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I love Paul Merton
I just wish he'd keep his shirt on....
Stop flexing his pecs
In front of Ant n Dec,
Even Vladimir Putin shows more respect
To the long suffering viewer; 
Paul:- climb out of the sewer,
Resist the urge to flash
Your naked rippling torso
You're rightly famous cos you're...

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