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Best Suspenders Poems

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Premium Member Blue Ruffles and Suspenders

blue ruffles and suspenders,
twist ‘n tout
their quick step
intermingled with applause,
side to side smiles,
astute to wrest the audience.
choreography jacks
the core of seasoned judges,
up on their feet,
forbearing...

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Categories: suspenders, dance,
Form: Free verse



Know How
Thankless job, I think watching
as Thurman tries to teach the young man

The lad sitting up
on the tractor
like a proud young pup
is full of piss and...

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Categories: suspenders, age, humanity, life, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Moonlight Tango
Moonlight tango

It was a Saturday night, in Buenos Aires, 10:30pm, to be exact. It was a hot summers night, and you could see, and feel,...

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Categories: suspenders, dance, desire, men, moon,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Caught In the Rain
It came with a flash upon my back
Caught off guard, suspenders hanging
Madly rushing to find a place so safe

From around the bend with a honk
“Hey...

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Categories: suspenders, adventure, funny, imagination, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Past Times 2
Five stones
                closing times
radiograms and
              seventy-eights
school caps
           ...

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Categories: suspenders, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Melissa Lont 1825 - 1911
Melissa Lont

1825 - 1911

How does one as low and humble as I
Sum up my life of 86 years
In a mere poem as brief and short-lived
As...

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Categories: suspenders, death,
Form: Epitaph
Pippi Longstocking
Britches to shirt tails
in pigtails not pony.
She's Pippi the Longstocking,
her legs long and bony.

With raspberry lips
been parched by the sun.
Suspenders jacked up
to not come undone.

Her...

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Categories: suspenders, appreciation, beauty, celebrity, child,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member O S Lont 1822- 1893
Dr. O S Lont  MD

1822 – 1893


The proud peacock bird
Knew of my enormous egregious ego.
As a young satyr in suspenders
I sought out the fillies...

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Categories: suspenders, death,
Form: Epitaph
Puttin On the Ritz
Kevin Solomon  9/9/2015

The Lion and the Crown
Cobalt blue goblet and the spangled gown
Black tie and high browns
Puttin on the Ritz
Flappers dancing the Charleston
Jazz by...

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Categories: suspenders, clothes, crazy, culture, dance,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Admirable People
alone inside with me, less than inspirational

  so look out for the more interesting folk

  momentary excitement, the fiery motivational

  beyond the...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: suspenders, character, inspirational, life, motivation,
Form: Verse
Sexy At Sixty
I was fit and feisty at fifty
It was no big deal
Because that's how half a century
Is supposed to feel.

In my sixties I'll take stock
Start making...

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Categories: suspenders, funny, life, sexy,
Form: Rhyme
Clowns
It's funny to me, all the fear they impose
I see it in children, and some adults that I know
With their painted on faces and squishy...

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Categories: suspenders, funny, hilarious, scary, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Samauri, Back In the Saddle
Brick had seen his share of hospitals 
and had been to Saint Cecelia's more than once,
on occasion, a perp would get banged up
you know, during...

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Categories: suspenders, imagination, me, me,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Impish Legacy
Impish Legacy
            by Odin Roark

He was like you and me
Arms 
Legs
Regrets
Passions

With little that stood...

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© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: suspenders, life,
Form: Free verse
Grandpa's Girl
Grandpa was quite an eccentric fellow.
Apple butter sweetened his coffee.
Wore high suspenders of red and yellow.
He'd slip me peppermints and toffee.

He'd lift me high on...

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© Deb Wilson  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: suspenders, family, love, nostalgia, me,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs