Best Suspender Poems

Zeitgeist - My 1960s - Liz Walsh

Kaftans, mini-skirts, Carnaby Street fashions.
Angel Delight, Hirondelle wine and that sheepskin rug.
"The price of round steak on a Saturday" while
Magdalen Laundries kept dark, dark secrets!
Nylon socks, Cuban heeled boots, body odour -
"it's always the girl's fault - she led...

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Without Knowing Your Gender...,
(nonetheless ex post facto still flattered)

Bhutan names defy affiliating,
determining, identifying... gender,
and what a faux pas this dada admits,
when a blessed high school
student did league gully tender

benighted, gifted, ordained yours truly
with sobriquet "Guru"
alluded to in previous poem, render
ring this foolish hearty good fella...

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Beneath billowing sack cloth tent 
An auctioneer jibber-jabbers his words.
Below his red mahogany dais
Sit Fifty Amish American women and girls.
Black-bonnet-ed, bidder-number in hand, 
they chirp for cowl or coat, yelp for yarn, 
raise bid card for church books, wool hats, many lengths of linen,
plethora of...

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No better way to launch the weekender
Than dropping in to see my local bartender 
He whips up the meanest margarita in his blender 

I can relax and to him all my troubles surrender
He knows the right thing to say to either gender
He’s everyone’s closest friend...

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Gloria
I feel like shouting for joy
My Redeemer lives
He lives through me
In me and from me
In my circumstances, situations, bearings
He is the lifter of my head
My assurer, my booster, my rearer
My supporter, my suspender, my sustainer
You are everything and you are all
How can I not shout...

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Without knowing your gender...,

(nevertheless ex post facto still flattered
genuine heartfelt kinship mattered,
hence the reasonable rhyme 
across the webbed wide world 
I subsequently scattered).

Linkedin to the previous poem,
(similarly written scant few years ago.

I also codified, glorified, and lamented
an unexpected cessation of communication
with he/him who affixed yours...

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