Lesley Poems - Poems about Lesley

...This happened last Fall, during Thanksgiving break. Lisa and I were at the MET (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), with her family, at an exhibit of Art Deco sculpture. Lisa and I came out of a gall......

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...Tradition. Cast aside by noise As worldy attention Tears and cloys Permission. For generous space To return to stare Full into the face Decision. To walk a monastic way Brief encounter......

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... in a dream a record store groovy man its lesley gore voice mid soprano and a piano sleepy sandmans muzak score. ......

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...Inextricably rooted with hair fixation As a lad in grade school, yours truly, (a diminutive, intuitive, oversensitive, and vegetative potato head kid, whose voice exhibited a severe nasal twan......

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...Disposable Wisdom Each day Annie Lesley opened a can Her eighty-six-year-old hands trembling As she sat with her cat and ate pet food What is wrong with this elder’s rendering? Pride swallow......

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..."Lost in the world’s most “progressive” nation For sacrificing her spouse in World War II ......

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...I’m Patient with Kimmy (1), Have Patience for Paul (2) Our political differences ring in my ear with fake “Fire!” calls in theaters marketing fear! ‘Right’ won’t honor op......

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...High school days I listened to Lesley Gore sing Day dreaming Sometimes feeling like a fool You Dad’s car I gave you my high school ring Friday nights Trying so hard to act cool Days flew by ......

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...(alternately titled no particular reason: bring unto “fake” trumpeting Caesar seven salad dressings from deep freezer and lettuce deign at your plea azure.) Graced with boyish good looks, inno......

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...Is it ‘friendship’ you proffer (to strangers who ask) If you’re ‘sap for sad stories,’ deny other’s truth, If you’ve something to barter, a ‘twit’ for ‘****’ thought, (1) Good advice you call ‘cur......

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...I’m facing a challenge and I’m taking bets That I can remember the names of my pets There’s Tommy and Jonnie and Sally and Barry The one over there I believe might be Harry Tiddles and Wriggles......

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...To Lesley do I owe a big debt No more over verse will I ever sweat Reading her nuanced advice between the lines My motivation to versify sharply declines It has become clear to me that my rot......

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...The long kiss had finished but still we embraced, love's giddiness filling our heads, your gaze locked on mine then you spoke, soft and low, “ I'll love you forever” you said. But after forever c......

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...Agoraphobia I lifted my glass of red wine, towards the lamplight as seeing it through a dreamy haze, what I saw was a dirty glass full of finger marks; couldn`t blame the barman since I was al......

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...(Lesley Ann Down was an actress in the Golden Age of live TV drama.) We live in an age of midgets. There are no seers now, only lookers, no values left, apart from digits. Cash is the hook, an......

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