Button Down Poems

Clothes

...Some clothes I don’t wear anymore. 
Some weird patterns all over. 
Or just a stain from a cursed coffee mug. 
The clothes which bring me to life?
Are:
My favorite florals. 
Colorful. 
I don’t ...

Death Stale Symphony Discount

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Written: April 14, 2025  for contest sponsored by Brian Strand

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The subject matter of this poem explores themes of transience, intersection of life and death, ...

Hound in a Button-Down

...There come those moments when men cease to be men
	And turn into dogs.
Dogs that bite and dogs that whine;
Dogs that lay
Panting
On top of you 
And infect you with their spilling saliva
	Dulle...

Life’s Repetition of rinse and repeat:

...Life’s Repetition of rinse and repeat:
Saga, the odyssey
 lies 
And deceit.
Juliet’s drowning upon daggers blade in
Response to a Romeo’s lethal swallow. 
The need be not the chasing down of se...

Retirement and Bird

...A bird in a button-down shirt and a vest
joined me for coffee, and sadly confessed, 
pecking distractedly at a cinnamon roll,
his manner affectingly droll.

What he said, as I sat on my park ben...

Look in My Closet

...
Look in my closet and what will you see?

First is the shoe holder hung on the side of its door.
It holds shoes sometimes not matched up and some I rarely wore!

Tightly pressed together are m...

I'm All That and an Appreciative Hat

...I'm just an old-fashioned, flannel lumberjack shirt.
My father was some overalls, a farmer of dirt.
I'm a worn out and holey pair of cotton socks,
An unwanted sweater, packed away in a box.

My ...

Off the Button

...Within the hurricane report,
Of which I just heard snatches,
A person on the radio said,
“Button down the hatches!”

So many people get things wrong
When idioms are used
And it is understandab...

The Button Down Shirt

...the button down shirt
crisply pressed and impressive -
backwards, inside-out...

Lasting Forever

...Lasting Forever
David J Walker 

On the first morning 
After a lifetime of making a living
I can only think of leaving 
         the Army
And how empty 
	I felt left and on my own at 21

Th...

Charles Bukowski Road Not Taken

...While reading Charles Bukowski poetry? 
On the metro ride home? 
Listening to Buddha bar music? 
On my oh too hip iPod? 
 
I begin to see myself as I was? 
Over 30 years ago when I was merely a...

You Dress You

...The society has dictated us enough.
What a man should wear and what a woman can
How to dress and how one can’t
“That is not how girls dress!”
Is the society’s favourite stand.

“Boys don’t wear...

Fashion In My Family

...My grandparents lived on farms – both sides of my family.
My mother’s parents and my father’s parents.
Overalls and button down shirts with pockets
Work boots for grandpas

Except my single gran...

Dwn Git N Down At the Dance

...DWN GIT n DOWN at the DANCE -

Button down, 
Boogie down.
Velvet lime green bell bottom pants, lookN mean;
Jackson 5, singing Dancing Machine;
~
Eddie Kendrick’s Boogie d...

No Need To Shout

...No Need to shout – As I have Ears

Up and down
In and out
Is the place to have a shout

So just make sure
You point your mouth
Before you let it, all spout out

But it’s no good shouting if...

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