Wedding Clothes Poems

Collected all the links to my favorite kinds of wedding dress
overwhelmed by the possibilities I will not possess
this useless project has been amusing but brought...

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They are my lucky pants, they come with me wherever 
They are my lucky pants, we will always be together 
They are navy blue nylon,...

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Dusty musty air hit me as I open the attic door. Turning on small torch, I pause whilst my eyes gently get acclimatised to the...

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everyone gets married in white, irvory or pink her bridesmaids said.
She laughed until she coughed way down in her head
Have you met me? She asked...

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Away in a clothes shop
No hat for me head,
Groom’s clothing is needed
For me to be wed

Many months did me have
To find fitting apparel,
That there’s nothing...

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Away in a haberdashery,
No hat for me head,
Groom’s attire is needed
For me to be wed

Many months did me have
To find fitting apparel,
That there’s nothing me...

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Oh my as my
fingers cry.
It frosty and cold
Why?
I need gloves
What's that you say?
The foot to the hand.
 Well it like socks
to the foot. 
Gloves keep...

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when things fall behind the dresser
they'll be there for awhile
sometimes a long while..
they're soon forgotten..
like common gesture and mundane conversation

someday the dresser will be moved
and...

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Bent fingers trace embroidered leaves
on satin and long lacy sleeves.
Blush roses, twenty-six she counts--
A French word she can't now pronounce.

She blows dust from old envelopes
tied...

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Rather than crank up the heat...

and ratchet up global warming
like bubbling vegetable stew
with tsk... tsk... heard
courtesy Greta Thunberg,
who would utter "how dare you..."

I bundle with...

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Today there was shock in my eyes
My husband gave me a surprise
He donned his wedding suit
And still looks really cute
Been married for years, how time...

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Indestructible, for Johnny Cash
by Michael R. Burch
 
What is a mountain, but stone?
Or a spire, but a trinket of steel?
Johnny Cash is gone,
black from his...

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Mayan Poetry Translations

The Receiving of the Flower
excerpt from a Mayan love poem
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Let us sing overflowing with joy
as we observe the...

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Blessed by God* to fulfill varied multi-faceted roles
Dressing-up well is vital among my functional goals.

Notable are engagements prodding me to don special blue raiment
And recalling...

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Work Clothes

You came in late from work. 
I know it was hard today in the mud. 
People get hurt on the job…
You are safe, my...

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