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Button Up Poems - Poems about Button Up

Sometimes Words
...Button up your metaphors; Zipper up your lip. Shoot from any place you want Other than the hip. Writing what you really feel By some will seem a crime, Especially when posted Like your other......

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Categories: button up, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hey Mom
... “Hey, Mom” Hey, Mom! I can’t sleep. I’ve been awake for hours. There are dragons at my door. “Come crawl in beside me,” She said “I’ll chase them far away.” Hey, Mom! I stubb......

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Categories: button up, children, love, mom, mother,
Form: Free verse



UP
...Get up, Now, shut up. Strap up, Zip up, Lace-up, Button up, Now, go and level up. Why are you looking down? And why are you wearing that ugly frown? Look at you, looking like a clown. ......

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Categories: button up, confidence, devotion, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member UNSCREW
...I am feeling fraught, And, stupid too, I don't know what to do. I need to open a screw-top bottle, Which I am about to throttle. Bottle tops and lids on things Also, those with tin pull rings......

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Categories: button up, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Look At You
...If I had wings that I could fly, I would spread my wings way up in the sky and swirl around in the air and survey the moving vessel in every corner and watch every bird landing in trees. I can see......

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Categories: button up, america, beach, betrayal, change,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Key To Buying a Used Car
...When Ali asked me to help her find a used car for Ava I thought, “She’ll thank me forevermore!” because this is exactly the kind of thing we parents were created for. Wanting to show my daughter ......

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Categories: button up, car,
Form: Rhyme
Goodnight Liverpool God Bless Sweet Dreams
...Oh chestnut candy horse mane Do your top button up blow the red rum fluff away and jump the brook As I find it in the quiet best in-between when the traffic stops at red lights To detect ......

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Categories: button up, fantasy, imagination, slam,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Autumn Cold Calms Winter Wind Flowing In-
...brisk cold winds settles across the nation so wide autumn days are flows in ~ sweat shirt woolen pants big over coat button up whosshs- burr cold outside ~ winter days has flows in brisk col......

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Categories: button up, autumn, environment, visionary, winter,
Form: Haiku
Olde Expensive
...Old Expensive The snow is falling, so, I button up my head, above it, Someone’s sound – “above a street lamp”. Music, leaks in, the lampshade sways, hanging above a stained in bed; Freddie gav......

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Categories: button up, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Excerpt of a Book I'Ll Never Write
...I remember the sunrays resting on your cheeks that day and me, tracing the freckles across your face with my eyes. You looked like an angel with that little heart shaped freckle at the corner of your......

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Categories: button up, absence, break up, deep,
Form: Prose
National Button Day
...Yesterday was Button Day; I somehow let it slip Or maybe I just chose instead To button up my lip. Begun in 1938, This date was set aside To celebrate the crafters Who keep notions stores su......

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Categories: button up, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Uncovered
...I button up my cardigan The weather's closing in. I'm follically challenged, not my hairline, but my skin.. As the clouds begin to gather and wind whips up to boot.. I twist my collar skyward......

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Categories: button up, angst, anxiety, faith, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member An Old Flannel Shirt
...An old flannel shirt with two button up the front pockets Well-worn, soft, in faded colors of greens, reds, and blues. A touch of green, and some bits of yellow, almost Christmas like. It was my f......

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Categories: button up, dad, fathers day, miss
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Button Up
...shushed severe with look button locked together lips — a withdrawn secret 6/8/2020......

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Categories: button up, silence,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Longest Shirt
...I have an old gray button up shirt Like the cowboys wear with rugged jeans It fits big and covers me up completely So that I feel like I’m living uniquely I love this old shirt that cost a pret......

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Categories: button up, clothes,
Form: Free verse

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