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Buttoned Down
Buttoned Down Poems - Poems about Buttoned Down
The Strasbourg Dancing Sickness
... Is dance a metaphor for sex? You’d think so if you knew my ex (at least the barflies all believe she’s hoarding something up her sleeve). But what makes people want to dance? An aural frenzy? ......
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Michael Coy
Categories:
buttoned down,
dance,
Form:
Couplet
Please Help Yarn Hexed Door Neighbor
...Please help yarn hexed door neighbor... Yours truly pinned down by invisible vestiges of coronavirus and getting attacked from angry plague of buttons, plus huge spools of yarn grossly misto......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
buttoned down,
abuse, anger, bullying, character,
Form:
Rhyme
Eyes Like Youtrs
...He walks towards her in a cold winter’s day with his buttoned-down shirt and expensive blue jeans. He doesn’t waste time as he whispers to her: “You have the most beautiful eyes that I’ve ever see......
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Jerry Perez
Categories:
buttoned down,
horror, murder,
Form:
Rhyme
Recycling: Why's- Wise
...we are creatures of... a time lapse that digest only in fractions... about 1/14rh of each second while 13/14ths escape us... with respect cause and effects we love the curiosity of cats b......
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Sand Blown
Categories:
buttoned down,
games, grave, history,
Form:
Free verse
Anniversaries
...Red letter days give birth to each other like pregnant goldfish. Once again the red circled hides its face on the far side of the fridge. Dates clog the cyclic notches on my prayer wheel o......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
buttoned down,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Saint Peyote of the Buttoned Down Shirt
...Pray for us St. Mushroom of the Holy Sin Keep our fingers free from sticky things And safe from anxiety of the open hole In the middle of the doughnut where it belongs Deliver us twelve of them ......
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Earl Schumacker
Categories:
buttoned down,
appreciation, corruption, food, forgiveness,
Form:
Free verse
November 6th 2018 Election Day
...November 6th 2018 - election day Later today after all votes get cast post final countdown, the winning candidates ought to be known way before break fast cometh on the l......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
buttoned down,
12th grade, anti bullying,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Earth and Sky Take Notice
...Bright red clouds in their pastel pastures Sky so vividly aligned along the shadow blue Solid ghosts against the heavens Stretch on the light of morning dawn Through that which seems like ocean s......
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Earl Schumacker
Categories:
buttoned down,
earth, nature, ocean, rain,
Form:
Free verse
Wild Domicile
...I prefer my home and family buttoned down rather than too wild and disorderly, disheveled and irrational. I prefer natural order and shades of color and dialects and economic/political vocati......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
buttoned down,
destiny, family, fear, gender,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Peaches and Cream
...She was looking my way, I had nothing to say, Though I'd dreamed that this day would transpire; With her beaux all around, why would she look at me With such interest and playful desire? She wa......
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Isaiah Zerbst
Categories:
buttoned down,
beauty, first love, flower,
Form:
Quatrain
Buttoned-Down Minds
...They would watch, with wild amusement, as chubby little hands worked furiously, struggling with each button. Tiny, unskilled fingers loosening, gnawing at them, until the last one was free. She would......
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Carrie Richards
Categories:
buttoned down,
freedom, people, time, desire,
Form:
Free verse
Another Day Without Me
...THE ALARM CLOCK GOES OFF ANOTHER DAY I AM UP QUICK SHOWER COFFEE TOAST AND EGG TWO TYLENOL BLUE BUTTONED-DOWN SHIRT NEW BLUE AND RED STRIPPED TIE BRIEFCASE AND KEYS MEETINGS AND PHONE CALLS LUNCH WI......
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Rudolph Rinaldi
Categories:
buttoned down,
life,
Form:
Free verse
Roller Coaster
...Buttoned up to the neck Forget about me, forget about everything You say I'm so "up tight" I can't come "unglued" Well pardon me for being twenty-three But living has become something of a necessity ......
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Skyy Allen
Categories:
buttoned down,
Form:
Free verse