Long Gown Poems

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You Never Do

You Never Do
You say that I am skinny but you give me nothing to eat.
You say that I am quiet but you don’t come and talk with me
You say that I need a friend but you leave me vulnerable in
The open guts of the enemies. You say that I am stink yet you
Give me no soap to wash my body. You say that I am working too hard 
But you send no one to help me. 

Here I am in the open space looking closely at the race, with noise around and a bunch of vagabond surround me with hearts packed with stones and a conscience unknown .Filthy hands and stirring the dish and their head beating on the concrete and washing the dirty dish. 

Hypothetical sound playing in the ground and they are walking around 
In long gown, with the religious pants dropping underneath their bottom
and hands sliding into their gowns  for a pocket that is not found
oh how I loathe this disposition. I watched the eyes looking up and down for a word that cannot be found and the crown with its punitive 
weight moving from side to side in the middle of the day.

You stand and watched the philistines descend upon me, you watched them hauled and pull me on the ground, you did nothing to help and then you say that you are heaven bound.Oh yes your heaven is up there
But my heaven is right here on earth. My heaven gives life and it comes with many years of sacrifice. You play the music loud to break my eardrums but I let the sound pass right through and filters in thin air.
Your mountain is getting low and you don’t have much further to go

You watched them  mocked me when the vagrants unpacked on me but my spirit drives them back to their destiny. They run like wolves down
the street erupting the cities heart beat. I am here and you are there
and I have nothing to fear. You cannot mix religion with business that is hypocrisy in the third degree and you will not get not one more penny from me. I cannot be wooed y some religious song,  and you will be hanged like every bad man and your accomplice will pay their dues with you and I want to tell you that you cannot do.
Form: Narrative


Premium Member Cat Walk

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        Some in the audience 
         shook their heads in 
                 disbelief
       whilst their entertainer
       strutted 'long the stage
         with the diaphanous 
                    gown

              Sum cheered
                      az
              the performer
           trickled the sheer
                  raiment
                earthward

         Several raced to the
                    exits 

         Scarcely any uv the
       assembled recognized
         who the artist wuz
                    'til
            unto the stage
            from twixt the 
           personage's legs 
                dropped

                the box 
                    uv
              wheat'hes

Premium Member Garden Guests

With wind wisps, she sways like a tipsy sailor,
dressed in queenly array that'd impress any tailor,
with gentle petals, as soft as a lofty gown
and stamen arranged like a radiant, jeweled crown.

Bachelor buttons are sown, as if to a lovely garment.
The garden ground's an art, like a patchwork raiment.
Her highness is surrounded with likeness guests,
all seeming to await beauty pageant quests.

Their stems reach high, like skyward towers.
Cosmos explode like star-spangled showers.
Roses lift generously to sift their sultry scent.
Ornamental bluebells hang within their element.

Carnations wave at humble bumblebees,
who speak softly to poppies and daisies,
who reach the gaze of cheerful children,
who teach awe and simplicity again and again.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Tree


              I am slipping into a dream_
    I am in a forest green and lush
             with trees so beautiful 
                       and bird songs divine
       and hear a "tree" talking. . . 

my roots are deep in the earth
    my branches raised to the sun
                I am strength and I am courage
a river flows past me like a stream of glass
         I am tranquility and serenity . . .
the winds are whistling through my weeping leaves 
                  like violin's crying and 
         echoing in the forest . . .
I gave to life all the soul I had in me
          all my leaves and tears trembled
and all my pain fell in autumn   
               drifting  away red,  yellow and orange
                               to decay . . .
I rest under the snow
                   and place on a cloak of pure white
then, in the Spring I put on my emerald gown 
                             and re-birth . . .

Premium Member Leave Me Alone

years for now, the Vicar preached his village,
message of peace and everlasting love,
but back at home his wife would show him rage,
shout “ Leave me alone” and give him a shove!

corpulent now, no more as slim when young,
she was now a mother of children three,
loved him dearly, though she vented her lung,
“let me do my work, go! I am not free!

Christmas lights would bring much needed romance,
a cuddle, a kiss when the two were free,
if he professed something beyond a dance,
a shy “leave me alone, It’s time for tea!

thunderstorms were lot frequent in their town,
he would thank the Lord, for she held him close,
much love was shared when in their dressing gown,
“Leave me alone” smiled she,”time to repose”.

Written 13/11/2021
Leave me alone poetry contest
Mystic Rose Rose sponsored
10 syllables each line
Form: Rhyme


The Siren's Song

She wants freedom to touch her
She wants symbols to wear
Sailors at dawn
Bear no response
As if they’re not there

She repairs to the ceiling 
As the walls tumble down 
Underfed, under bed
But she’s good for now

‘I look for you 
But not for long;
I call to you’ —
The siren’s song

She plans for the wedding
No one there but the gown
Save a place
For her eager face
Guests depart the town

She smiles in cathedrals
Vacancy to her prayer 
Up all night, teeming white
Her powdered purse on the stairs 

‘I sing to you,
With whom I belong.
I swim to you’ —
The siren’s song

1996, 2022
Form: Verse

Premium Member Tale of Dissecting Susies Brain

They thought it would be fun to dissect Susie’s brain
But wait, Sue said. I am kind of allergic to pain.
We have new meds, you will hardly feel a thing.
She believed the surgeon, ‘cause she’s a ding-a-ling.

The doctors hypnotized her and she stayed in place
While they cut a tiny hole in her front lobe face
They extracted a bit of her teeny sand brain
I’m naked! The piece yelled, and don’t forget my train!

They pulled out a gown, a petticoat and a bridal veil.
I am eager to see what you’ll do next said Dale.
Wait! Said Tori as I was telling this story to her
Who is Dale and were her dendrites still pure?

Since I was rudely interrupted, the tale is now dead.
So now poor Susie is stuck without the rest of her head.
I do not feel guilty, I am the writer, thus the boss.
Not knowing the ending is the reader’s loss.
Form: Rhyme

Platitudes

Tired platitudes for the pain to drown,
The bridled tongue will keep the fire bound.
A dose of bromide helps the words go down.

Exalting paupers with a golden crown.
Creating hero’s with exalted sound.
Tired platitudes for the pain to drown.

If our words of truth would be met with frown,
Would we eulogize and then chest proud pound?
“A dose of bromide helps the words go down.”

Embellished sackcloth still an ugly gown.
Vapid faces prefer the truth go round.
Tired platitudes for the pain to drown.

If only flattery we dare be shown,
Could weakling hearts bear the weight of truth found?
A dose of bromide helps the words go down.

When counsel concealed from one who is lown,
For what good cause could such ones be renowned?
Tired platitudes for the pain to drown?
A dose of bromide helps the words go down?
© MD Johnson  Create an image from this poem.

Auntie Dot

Yesterday,as the sun shone down
 strolled to my aunties,she out of her gown
   having a better day,health not too clever
     but was so good see you and chat,however

   

       Not speaking for coming upto nearly three year
         family issues the problem,now i don`t care 
           `cos the effective calmness, and all the love
              you loved the chain from our Shirl who`s above



                 Looking back now,i think to myself why
                   it took so long to solve,`cos money can`t buy
                    back all the time that has so past
                     but will  make it all up,and make it last

 

                        Well Dot i shall wind up your rhyme
                         i know i will see again very soon sometime
                           because on leaving your house,i can confess
                             was a church like feeling,that i`d been blessed.



                                         LOVE YOU.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Release

Hold onto life, my little leaf,
in spite of pain,
in spite of grief;
and, when the wild winds rape the bough
till trembling more than now,
you almost lose your grip:
hold yet to life.

Hold onto life, though brittle brown,
remains alone of life’s fair gown;
for Spring must come again, I know
and warm your roots ‘neath melting snow;
you cannot give up now:
hold still to life.

Hold onto life, through life seems past,
and though the lots have all been cast;
for somewhere Summer walks in green
and somewhere Love crowns her queen
who knew him not below:
hold on, then, go.

© 1987, Faye Lanham Gibson

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