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Cufflinks Poems - Poems about Cufflinks

The Pact

...It began with a bargain on a winter night,
When the cupboards were bare
And hope sat idle in the corners.


He came with frost on his collar,
A gentleman adorned in a burgundy suit
Polished al...
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Categories: cufflinks, dark, extended metaphor, fairy,
Form: Free verse

Anatomy Of The Leg

...In 2013 Amélie Ségarra danced on a Grand Piano with knives 
taped to the tips of her feet.
The room is empty apart from a single man in a music box
He wears a black an white suit buttoned up to th...
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Categories: cufflinks, allusion, analogy, appreciation, daffodils,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberThe Ivy Machine

...They call it a temple of knowledge,
but the walls were never meant for thought—
only the careful curation of power,
where names are chiseled in Latin
and inheritance is mistaken for intelligence....
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Categories: cufflinks, political, power,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDaddy-A Christmas Tribute

...Daddy! 
You had to drive me to school everyday and pick me up.
I was only six and we had noschool buses.

One wintry afternoon, I came out, a blizzard whirled all about.
Wearing no boots or legg...
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Categories: cufflinks, christmas, dad, girl, memory,
Form: Free verse

Tease For Two

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"Tease for Two"



“Ein bisschen Zucker 
mit Ihrer Sahne, Sir?“

German accent 
smoky toned 
she purred

Periwinkles suavely winked, 
then p...
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Categories: cufflinks, adventure, humor, romance, word
Form: Romanticism



Italy Isn'T So Little

...The blonde went down  
with not must resistance
shunning off a stressful afternoon
 
the scene played of society, high
as I peered at all the pretense
and pretend of an I want to be...
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Categories: cufflinks, people,
Form: Free verse

Gutter Hearts

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"Gutter Hearts"



He’s got a gutter Heart
bleeds words that birth
diamonds sharp on his tongue

They hit her like 
bullets from an Uzi gun
Si...
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Categories: cufflinks, romance,
Form: Romanticism

Wiseguys

...Wiseguys

when I was a skinny
eight-year-old boy
I knew him as
Willy Shoes

it was Brooklyn 
in 1950 and
some men had
strange names 
reflections of personality
deed or look

he and his ...
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Categories: cufflinks, character,
Form: Free verse

50 Words For Poe: Strangelove

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"50 Words for Poe: Strangelove"


Strangelove was waiting  
in Holdnerness
He was anticipating 
with a certain glee 
The “Arrival” of 
Ms Bon Vivant, her sharpness
and sharing conve...
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Categories: cufflinks, adventure, freedom, fun,
Form: Free verse

Odd Story

...Man with cufflinks
Woman with fine jewels
Rubies resting on booby's,
Sick stories and inverted crosses 
Orgies and they all yell more fish! 
Secret Societies taking over nations, 
Yates conspir...
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Categories: cufflinks, allegory, blue, dark, deep,
Form: Couplet

I Never Bought Cufflinks For My Father

...I never bought cuff links for my father
     never knew him really
I saw him at Christmas and birthdays
     for a few years early on
That ended
Father’s day, a strange, empty holiday...
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Categories: cufflinks, father, fathers day,
Form: Free verse

Dreamlove

...they met, once upon a time-
her silky hand melds with his
for but a moment 
an exchanged glance, fleeting
chocolate brown orbs
swimming in pools of milk
ebony hair dancing across her 
backless...
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Categories: cufflinks, desire, dream, longing, love,
Form: Free verse

Kuru Soup

...Sticks and stones, they break your bones, and words they disembowel. Poetry is a dagger, linguistics a humble cowl. Lab rat hearted heathens pray the plagues consume the town. Iron sharpens iron, Don...
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Categories: cufflinks, america, anger, angst, art,
Form: Acrostic

Chateau Pl

...Chateau Pl

A sleep walk guided by reflections
Although somethings were real
Not the front entry way
Or the stair case
Or the garage for that matter
Scrubbed and alcohol swabbed shoes
Eating ...
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Categories: cufflinks, class, food, jobs, satire,
Form: Prose

Sunset

...It is necessary to remember.... 
to remember the sorrows,
to remember the victories,
to remember the deceased...

In our short walk
through this world,
every single memory
confirms our existe...
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Categories: cufflinks,
Form: Free verse

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