SATURN GOD OF TIME
...Saturn ! You magnetised with
enchanting icy rings
promised white gold
endless skates on
Chrysalis circled cates
said we would go round
like fairy rings
said you had so much
Love to give I...
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Categories:
girdles, allegory, color, creation, extended
Form: Rhyme
Girdles and Garters
...A museum exhibit
Showed 200 years
Of clothing for women
In varied careers.
It also had items
To wear in the home –
The aprons and housecoats
Not oft in a poem.
The garters and girdles
M...
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Categories:
girdles, clothes,
Form: Rhyme
not big enough for a girdle
...I live in a family of big muscular women
Some are as dainty as a hippopotamus
Our family does not have a waist.
None of us have ever had a waist.
Waists are for other people’s families.
We hav...
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Categories:
girdles, women,
Form: Free verse
The Unsupervised Stop Sign
...Many years ago,
girls wore girdles.
The tight uncomfortable things,
they held one in tight.
One summer's night,
I snuck my girlfriend out.
We were off on a double date,
a night of fun and laug...
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Categories:
girdles, boy, girlfriend, humor, night,
Form: Free verse
Fruitball
...There was a time when the great, gridiron classic,
Was the ultimate in athletic pursuit.
But lately, the evolution has been warped, by
Policy & standards that have served to dilute.
Mos...
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Categories:
girdles, football,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Good Woman
...A GOOD WOMAN:
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES...
Chorus:
A good woman speaks with power,
And she appears as magical flower.
Her beauty is in her voice,
Proving her lips are sweet spices.
Truly ...
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Categories:
girdles, beauty, mum, visionary, woman,
Form: Dramatic Verse
A New Journey
...Crumpled dreams collapse
In debris of failed life
Pole star shines in sky of despair
A new journey begins
Searching for divine grace within
Euphoric rainbow arc girdles the...
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Categories:
girdles, analogy, heartbroken, journey, life,
Form: Verse
Dactyl Mcwhirtle
...Poetry, throw-a-three
Dactyls for you and me
Six silly bulls, I see
All in a field!
Myrtle McWhirtley
This is the life for me
No silly names, I see
Less junk to wield.
Dactylly Practical
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Categories:
girdles, silly,
Form: McWhirtle
Mama N Tem' Part 1
...Mine mother had 3 sisters and 1 brother
All of em’ had married young
Not because they hada
All of em’ had more than 3 children
Cept mine mama she had only 2
Mama N tem’
Cook ta gether
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Categories:
girdles, analogy, character, family, mother,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Be You-The Only Way To Fly
...My favorite pastime?
What about yours?
Danger is my dalliance!
Conformity? No way!
Feels as a heavy cape.
Just be you, is all I ask!
Be true, hardly, an easy task,
Rules are for ...
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Categories:
girdles, fantasy, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Over-Odd: Eh What's Real-Eye-Able
...body builders have an ab-sense
girdles are just an abs-tractions
to communicate is to accomplish-'meant'
to know your limits means know-'ledge'
too much wine means too absorb-'bent'
a purebred c...
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Categories:
girdles, dream, perspective, smile,
Form: Free verse
Remember Suspenders
...Do you remember this?
Suspenders for a teenage miss,
Real boa constrictors,
Our hip inhibitors,
Teen boy deterrents,
That's what they meant,
Elastic girdles vanished too,
I remember suspende...
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Categories:
girdles, angst, for teens, fun,
Form: Free verse
Life On Rainbow Arc
...Despair depressed in quicksands of time, hollow inside
Dented dreams collapse insipid, capsize and subside
Failure makes the razed life dark.
Latent beacon flashes on the desolate inner pathway
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Categories:
girdles, depression, emotions, life, rainbow,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Even the Lazy Lizard
...Even the Lazy Lizard
Even the lazy lizard knows when not to beg,
when not to emerge, from behind the hungry black rock of
another dying hand, hopelessly clutching the mysteries of
another sit...
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Categories:
girdles, life,
Form: Free verse
Bazaar
...Bazaar
The nights’ chest opens up -
strings of illusions
rattle in palms
the knowing buyers haggle
for a dream
while the fascinated women
try on
toles of princesses or odalisques.
In t...
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Categories:
girdles, arabic, art, beautiful, destiny,
Form: Free verse
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