Best Stubbly Poems

Beloved,
with preposterous
persistence,
I still search
for your likeness.
Gravitating
toward every
handsome bald man, 
I scan the light 
that reflects
off their head,
like the globe of home.
I strive for
the sight of...

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Apparently it’s a p**is that makes a man these days 
Never mind the testosterone that fuels an angry craze
A testosterone filled vag**a made of real...

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It is always after days like this one,
of a kind of proverbial snake chasing
its tail, its form flawless, its strength in

numbers of its friends all...

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Dad, I remember well the night I grew up. 
I know you remember that night too...
   I know you never forgot this happening:
...

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The soil is dreaming in a silent technicolour, 
peaceful and alone. It exhales, gently without the tragic 
trampling of mankind snapping roots, without the world...

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For half an hour Dix had rode true
when the canyon opened up wider.
In front of him five stubbly men
sat around a roaring fire.

The leader Dixon...

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Billy no-mates sat alone on the bench in the playground
Along came Johnny no- friends, perched next to him and frowned

The other kids ignored Billy, he...

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I believe 
the trees have
changed their shadows--

overnight.

They rock, they rock,
they rock and sway...

When a winter wind came
and blew all their leaves away.

Like nature's x-ray on
in...

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Suddenly Swans

ZITS….that plague
eradicated
soft stubbly itch
faint beard
announcing itself.

They were…..once
my sister’s
pig-tailed, bratty friends
now gliding past
in nuanced elegance
			…..suddenly swans


©4/5/2019

Suddenly Swans Poetry Contest
Maureen McGreavy - sponsor...

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Ugly Dolls

Have a doll
Her name is Pearl
She is not a pretty girl
Nose is stubby
Eyes are gray
Clothes are old
Hair stubbly hay
She’s not pretty
Clothes aren't smart

Her crooked...

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Once there stood a tree so Grand
With yellow flowers and confidence,
She bent and swayed with each day
So eventually I came her way.

Her branches grew so...

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According to ‘her’ that has 
To be obeyed
The hairs on my chin 
Cannot be shaved
She likes the look and 
Definitely the feel
Of the soft little...

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I.
Rennie Hauser gazed out of the window
as the stage slowly trundled down the road,
the sun beat hard on the towering peaks
that ran across northern Colorado.

She...

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Dreams of nonsense drip from my weary eyes like candle wax. The shimmering full moon reflects off my coffee cup as I stagger through the...

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I am fourteen.
It’s a hot summer day in 1954.
My mother, father, two brothers, one sister, and I 
Pile into our 1952 Chevrolet station wagon
And head...

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