Bootstraps Poems - Poems about Bootstraps

... I wish I had... the power to change a broken man's circumstances. I'd flip his dim world back downside up, add colors and rays of sunshine to it, ......Read the rest...

...Thanksgiving gobbledygook The following anecdote baste upon overactive imagination of mine in sync with being married and monogamously living socially chaste life as a scrupulous anchorite, w......Read the rest...

...There’s not much to love in the land of 72 ounce steaks Air-conditioned grace droning over AR-15 soaked Saturdays Remembering is not the problem these days Rather it is forgetting that Childr......Read the rest...

...Shocking, those stockings, suspenders and all. In old days, told to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. These days, old man, you just don’t want to fall. And truly you’ve had your share of mishap......Read the rest...

...lest ye seek alms with outfaced palms just imagine how the lantern shone against the knees of Archelaus, and lit up the check-board pattern of the eleemosynary trousers Fatigued civilian......Read the rest...

...You fueled the anger in my heart. I never thought I could ever feel this way. One fleeting moment in history, That is all it took. One ripple in the massive ocean created a tsunami. One glimpse ......Read the rest...

...Oh, don’t flatter me with presents from the Ghost of Christmas Past. Tis the season for nostalgia, but those feelings never last. It’s a gift-wrapped empty promise not worth tuppence on the stree......Read the rest...

...I didn’t know George was an amorous lad, causing chat on the bush telegraph. I’d never heard George had done nothing bad, ‘cept splitting one marriage in half. George never delved into breaking......Read the rest...

...Paternal grandmother's headstone - Beth David, Elmont, Long Island Shaindel (Sadie), variant of Shana Harris died May 13th, 1959 exquisitely chiseled alphanumeric characters legibly engraved se......Read the rest...

...Caught up in broke and broken operating on what we can; Ready to rise by your own bootstraps? Or fall, never to be reimagined; No answers with a diagnosis ask if humanity is worth saving; Vi......Read the rest...

... BE MERRY be merry, not blue. blow your nose, no boo hoos, dot your eyes. i’ve provided an embroidered, lacy handkerchief — the old-fashioned kind, that pulls up your bootstraps, ti......Read the rest...

...Dad could roll a cigarette with just two fingers and the tip of his tongue. I saw him do this once in a wind storm. Magically he would shave just close enough to keep his grizzled face blue......Read the rest...

...What lies waiting at the end of a self-made independently empowered self-invested "pulled my own economic-political bootstraps" life? A unilateral linear life, like any passionate journey, ......Read the rest...

... If I ruled the world, I'd build paradise; a safe haven and make it flourish and endure. The st......Read the rest...

...I saw her the other day with large bags at a coffee store I'd never been as close, but it's possible I'd seen her befor......Read the rest...