Lonely Clothes Poems

How do I know,                                         ...

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"All a man really wants, is a girl who looks good in a bikini."
- Jack Freestone

More skin makes my heart pound,    ...

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Living in a house very old,  
it was always drafty and cold.  
Metal stairs to the basement lead,  
from an old pirate's...

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I stand here beneath a beautiful fig tree,                 ...

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Look at this place I did a sink full of dishes,              ...

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beyond what we know is the realm of wrapping
  can be no time, can be no space
  just stuff, bits and pieces, much...

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Great store,                       ...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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In this world, so many people focus on name brands and designers.
You want designer this, designer that. You want the best, the newest, the most...

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went out in a new outfit and car, to find I had a flat tire

 
Date Written: 8/24/2020

2 Place     When plans...

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Coat on a Bench

An abandoned coat 
draped on a bench, 
covered in leaves 
and dried grass.
Pink fairies and princesses 
infer it’s a girl’s.
How could she...

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Gitanjali 11
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation/modernization by Michael R. Burch

Leave this vain chanting and singing and counting of beads:
what Entity do you seek in this lonely...

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Barefoot

I’ll take off my shoes and socks, and walk barefoot in the sand, I will think about my past, while I’m staring at my hands,...

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My closet’s empty and so am I baby and it’s all because of you
All I have left are memories, a few shirts and some jeans...

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Who would have known,
your roots were hidden, deep,
beyond the shadows that would keep you,
dancin'in the street?

Being just a bum when it all began,
when you were...

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