Echoes in the Locker Room
They never saw me—not really.
Only the outline I traced in the halls,
A whisper of denim and shy glances,
A ghost who smiled too politely.
They passed notes like grenades,
Laughed too loudly
When the silence was breaking me.
I wore their words like a second skin—
Tight, blistering,
But invisible to them.
You asked if I was okay once—
But your eyes flicked away
Before
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Categories:
locker, anxiety, poetry, sad, school,
Form: Free verse
putting stuff into a storage locker
When you throw things into a storage shed
You are spending money on rent every month
Sometimes for years
Finally, you decide to look the stuff over
None of this was anything you should have kept or paid rent on
At one time we had three storage lockers in three states
It took me three weeks to clean them out
What I
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Categories:
locker, me,
Form: Free verse
Ah Mean Man in the Locker Room
Outfitting himself for wrestling
he sneared at the smiling gentlmen in the locker roomI wanna see how I could not be perfect
see ya'll guy think everything is easy and getting up early
and doing the thing makes you
qualified to be champion.
Snarls the Old man against the the Pretty Guys
Women love em: and the Ladies wanna
get wiff em.
You
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Categories:
locker, america, business, culture, devotion,
Form: Bio
Lesbian in the locker room
I'm willing to worship
Any girl that calls me a name other than disgusting
The world is progressive
But it has not moved forward
I turn to face the linoleum, saying,
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Categories:
locker, anti bullying, spoken word,
Form: Free verse
Best Sports Poems Ii
These are the best sports poems by Michael R. Burch, Part II
The Locker
by Michael R. Burch
All the dull hollow clamor has died
and what was contained,
removed,
reproved
adulation or sentiment,
left with the pungent darkness
as remembered as the sudden light.
Me?
Whee!
(I stole this poem
from Muhammad Ali.)
—Michael R. Burch
superstar(stuporstar)
by Michael R. Burch
hey pete,
it's baseball season
and the sun ascends the
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Categories:
locker, baseball, basketball, boxing day ,
Form: Rhyme
My Office Is a Meat Locker
My office is a meat locker.
We could hang a hog in here for a week.
It would not become rancid or even warm.
My office is a meat locker.
I am dressed in long underwear
And four sweaters in eighty-eight-degree weather
My office is a meat locker.
The custodian is my best friend now.
She comes in here to cool off.
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Categories:
locker, teacher,
Form: Rhyme
A Girl With Poor Handwriting
As The Note-Taking Girl scribbles
And absentmindedly quibbles
Her fingers are animated wriggles
Churning out eccentric squiggles:
Letters of Ever Clumsy Angles,
One like a creeper that tangles,
As many like threads in singles,
Wherefore her teacher openly wrangles
And after explosion stiffly dangles
Before her the option of A Street Hawker
Bearing a case with or without a locker
And around patrolling
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Categories:
locker, care, child, education, words,
Form: Rhyme
The Shape of Mourning
The Shape of Mourning
by Michael R. Burch
The shape of mourning
is an oiled creel
shining with unuse,
the bolt of cold steel
on a locker
shielding memory,
the monthly penance
of flowers,
the annual wake,
the face in the photograph
no longer dissolving under scrutiny,
becoming a keepsake,
the useless mower
lying forgotten
in weeds,
rings and crosses and
all the paraphernalia
the soul no longer needs.
Keywords/Tags: life, death, death of a
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Categories:
locker, death, death of a
Form: Verse
The Locker
The Locker
by Michael R. Burch
All the dull hollow clamor has died
and what was contained,
removed,
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Categories:
locker, sports,
Form: Verse
Foot Locker
how long
is a foot locker
and what
do they keep in it?
foot lockers
foot solders
foot long hotdogs
footballs
what is the obsession
are they politically correct
or are they just a foot fetishes
at the foot of my bed
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Categories:
locker, 7th grade, africa, baby,
Form: Free verse
The Hussy In the Locker Room
how do for a laugage that speaks
to coupling
and reproduction
that isn't lewd and mean spirted?
Wprds that are aimed and directed
to create an atmoshere of being
together
in a spirt of love and togetherness.
this Patsor asked members
of his church, and churches within his county,
to create new words, with new meanings, to define love, and appreciation and fondness , words
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Categories:
locker, family,
Form: Ballad
Locker Room Talk
Immature boys
having a bully good time
Plenty wet towel fun ...
doing nude, verbal denigrating
It was just harmless locker room talk,
the unconcerned adults all said
Nothing to worry about,
the pampering voices cooed
Giving patronizing pats on the head
to those annoying,
ponytail ginger freckles in school
Insecure men
love having women
squirm under their thumbs,
office hours pinned
Mature females
moving nervously around
the water cooler
Hearing
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Categories:
locker, perspective, society, truth, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Locker
In psychology they say if you have a locker combination come the next year,
You don’t remember the combination,
Failure and success is it more mental then a exercises that proof facts,
When I was in high school not knowingly three ivy league schools,
Wrote me and later was accept to one but I had change of heart for
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Categories:
locker, art, love,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Locker Room Intimacies
I don't recall all that much talk in locker rooms.
These are typically quiet as reflective libraries
unless involved in team sports.
Then locker room talk may review a well played game,
but, again, those played less fortunately,
less familiarly,
not really too much to say,
sometimes thinking of other more nutritionally feeding things,
people,
places in time's perpetually receding memory.
Rooms for locking up
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Categories:
locker, culture, health, humor, men,
Form: Political Verse
A Mind Is a Storage Locker
Odyssey of The Mind
A Mind is a Storage Locker
Written: by Tom Wright
3/6/2016
Staring from some nook in every mind,
Exists mental images and thoughts of grandness,
And others that probe for meaning,
That God has favored only you to see.
Some gather dust in contentedness,
While others hunger to be loosed;
Once common they exist as public domain,
And are not
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Categories:
locker, psychological,
Form: Free verse
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