Layaway Poems - Poems about Layaway

Tis the Season

...They say it gets harder
The older you get
The loneliness creeps in and often good memories you simply  forget
It's those yearly reminders of things you once had
Memories once made
On days you ha...

What's Dead is Dead

...
After checking the Sears and Roebuck and Montgomery Wards catalogs until their pages were torn and faded, we took one last look at the sales ads in the local newspaper, donned our socks and sandal,...

When I Was a Kid

...My clothes came from
K-mart.
  They were on layaway
Until school starts.
  
  We would go out to eat,
Every now and then.
  We would chill out when
Our parents would count to ten.

  A trea...

Electrified Fence

...I hope you're aware what you're doin' --
Got a bad feeling you're not
We may be headin' into ruin --
Maybe lookin' at the Doomsday clock

When that end-times gong chimes out,
Who will come to y...

Morning Prayer

...As I stepped out into the morning dew,
the rooster was crowing as roosters will do.
Then I sat down on an old oak log 
and down at my feet sat Jeb my old dog.

As the Sun rose up I said to t...

Wedding Things

...We need the help to convey
Our causes to masses of
People's.
Marriage is a community
Affair which means
People's throughout the
Church needs to know
What to say 
When people are looking for
...

Impregnable Fortified Donjon

...Alias indomitable invincible
Donald John Trump oozes wrath
inexorably plunging every species
of life toward apocalyptic warpath
mercilessly threatentens world
wide web promising bloodbath

val...

The Best Parts of Time Never Pass Us By

...Where does time go
When time drifts by so slow
How does one really know
How to stop this ongoing picture show
When days get lost in the haze
How is it possible to capture a rainbows craze

Tha...

Where In Tarnation Doth Spam Arise

...sam i yam not, 
     nor will this 'lo bot go away
cuz, every coordinate in cyber space allows, 
     enables and provides 
     an opportunity to bray,

and thence get access 
     to each ex...

Christmas Blitz

...WHITE glistening snow
WHITE dove
DOVE of love
DOVE of purity
PURITY of intention
PURITY of child's innocence
INNOCENCE lost
INNOCENCE price was paid
PAID by charge
PAID by layaway
LAYAWAY i...

Remember When

...Remember back when black people were friends because we only
had each other then

Back when we wore butterfly collar shirts platform shoes and mini skirts
when the press and curl was in and weari...

The Magic Nickel

...One day, not so long ago, when I was out playing with my dog Ruff, I met a very old woman. She looked very tired and poor. Her clothes were worn and kind of ragged. Her shoes had holes in them. She w...

Intenstinal Gratitude

...The “forthcoming” backtracks on dilly-dallied whispers.

They place verbal down payments on layaway,
Incomplete soul mates
Running on muted slow dances

Blanketing their pain

“Oh, how I ...

One Dollar Can Equal a Million Dollars

...One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies.
Pennies saved by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher.
One dollar and eighty- seven cen...

I, Who Am Nothing

...I drink too much
to get your images out of my head
but with no such luck
so i kept drinking instead
and with dread 
I'd wake up with no recollection
but still your memory comes 
in quite a large coll...

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