Best Valise Poems

The Valise

The brief case has edges and mystery surrounds it
Accompanied by men on the periphery of law disordered
Perhaps the economy there is equal to Greece...

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a dizain

Admire her casting, lines of silky floss;
survey as artist drafts her masterpiece.
Enclosing space invisibly across,
then single-handedly, she will increase
the center parts to form unseen...

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sporting a colorful chemise
a camera and a valise
temptations so easily tease
roaming as free as honeybees
tourists hear beckonings as pleas
and capture beauty with much ease

tiny things...

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Those candies hiding in your valise
say your diet long since lost its lease.  
So, chew on those Reeses; 
chomp whatever pleases.  
You've got...

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The man in black alit from the stagecoach that hot and sultry day.
With his hat he brushed dust from his suit as he surveyed old...

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hanging tenuously from tree branch the ripe object of temptation

sunlight peeks through the hill trees signaling arrival of a new day

more a curse than a...

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(Deu. 32: 4 / Rom. 11: 33 / 1 Cor. 2: 10 / Ps. 104: 24 /1 Kings 8: 27)


Nature  -- Is Just ...

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that will neither revolutionize whorled wide web,
   nor pollinate like fecund human loam
viz - it mine neurological nuances here
   within Schwenksville,...

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a wall I am about to face
I do not tag with hatred
should I take the plane
to bring to a billet 
what is that and with...

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OLD PRISONER
crusty
trusty

DAVY JONES' LOCKER
deeper
keeper

HOLY COW
divine
bovine

OXYMORON
never
ever

COSTUME MALFUNCTION
hasty
pasty

OVERSTUFFED BRIEFCASE
obese
valise

NINTH PLACE WINNER
Written April 18, 2022
for "A Brian Strand Premier Choice Contest"
sponsored by Brian Strand...

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Irritatingly often unnecessarily compliant
to the whims of those about him
endlessly wordlessly wondering
about the many demented subjective qualities
of our ever present mammalian imperative via
a thought balloon...

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I carried my poetry in an old

Leather valise closed and opened with

A pleated accordion top that 

Kept my notches recorded in little

Books and tiny magazines...

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aged valise
in field of ferns,
burlap coat
to shield love’s pain-
vintage tote
reveals its past,
hoping to find youth again


September 5, 2017...

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UNQUOTABLE QUOTES : LV - Mind unwinding tweezers

If you let « bygones be bygones » , there’ll be no FUTURE left, and since we can’t...

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Many have experienced this more than a time or two,
“go ahead if you have to,” clearly designed to help just you.

At first you’re thoughts are,...

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