Long Backless Poems

PSYCHOTIC JOURNEY
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


Feeling really beat,  I went to bed early last night
Suddenly awakened feeling something’s not right
There was total darkness, I was not in my room
Lying on a cold flooring, with a feeling...

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My roommates Leong, Sophie, (Charles) and I were coming from a Yale sporting event. The sky looked like a dirty Swiffer-mop and the wind seemed to be ignoring the posted 20mph speed limit. It was...

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Eric Clapton (born March 30, 1945, in Ripley, Surrey, England)
British guitarist who influenced rock.
Later became a famous singer-songwriter.
Clapton was born to a teen mom and a Canadian WWII soldier in England.
His grandparents mostly raised him.
He...

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Is this the weekend, by the way?
           (I always think it’s Saturday!)
           Load the kids...

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Hot In Havana.
.
It was a sweltering hot sticky Havana summers
Velvet star-studded night
I was sat enjoying the scene
In a dance bar
As someone played the piano accordion
And guitar
.
Suddenly I was aware of a shapely silhouette 
Stood at...

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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 gown as she walks away
walked away…

swirling...

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A poem to close your eyes 


 "I close my eyes and see a flock of birds. The vision lasts a second, or perhaps less; I am not sure how many birds I saw. Was...

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You belong to another world when you fall in love 
Especially with the ONE above 
You will surely become gentle like a dove
And enjoys been His darling belove

But never should you feel helpless 
When things...

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Now, in her solitude she sits draped in mock fur, 
As the movie spool ends, silver lights begin to fade,
So, she slurps on her sorrows with a soft bitter slur

‘The sheer backless organza’ – a...

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Schoolboy

Can this be school? So dark and worn
a backless seat, walls of scorn.
Someone said, “We need a school.
This cement relic here will do.”

There sits a boy who’s come to learn.
See his human interest yearn.
He must...

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Queen of the willows, ferns, shadows and moss.
Her miniature dragon perched on her lap with pleasure,
Both together adding to verdant forest a duo treasure.
Unclear to the feral and fey which one is the boss.

Lady green...

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Choices
Should I have the low cut dress?
My décolleté set out ready to impress.

What about the long backless number
It shimmers and shines, no man will slumber.

I could have the short one to show off my legs
But...

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THE LAMENT OF A PENNILESS BLOKE

For want of avocation, I became a poet
To bleed my misery on paper calling for an eye,
To see me in my tattered footwear and backless shirt,
But no hear have I...

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White lips curl furiously as warm hands reach for the mouth that speaks so loud.
         Swallow—swallow. 
Gracious god falling from the sky; there dies my warmth, there...

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Sixteen she became more of a sexist.
With her skin smooth to reek the care
of her mothers touch.
Sixteen in a black backless dress,
a mistress look,yet a woman to every 
men passing on the street corners.
Men with...

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Put your blue dress on
and let your hair down too-
your hair that is so beautiful
you need no fancy “do.”

That gown a royal blue -
you know the one I mean!
The sequins on its bodice
make you glitter...

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Small stadium built in the late forties,
minor-league once, but has been left behind,
built with girders and backless, wooden seats,
a local relic of an older time.
The players look so young, barely can shave,
the pitching is rough...

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S-imply wear your holy array, 
U-sing your sacred attire; 
N-ever get yourself in disorder, 
S-o you won't suffer the Father's ire. 
H-oly array during worship service 
I-s commanded by the Almighty; 
N-either backless nor mini...

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Oscars

Oscars night is here again,beautiful women and gorgeous men.
Play acting is what they do on the silver screen for me and you.
Some will win some will lose,the film academy will chose
Fasion statements galore with Gucci...

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