Long Polyester Poems

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Chucky's Atonement

Chucky's atonement

    1. Used to be scared of the rain. He would drag me out of the shelter and make me dance.

    It always drives him insane. Dressed me like a little Chucky doll and spared me no glance.

    Frozen toes in winter were warmer than the hot tears of fall. He would knit me a polyester, same color as his cat.

    2. Used to be scared of his footsteps and the timbre sound of the bell until I sniffed your inviting pine cologne.

    My heart palpitates at the notification of your message/call. Trapped in your fancy hell.

    Called me your wife in public. Treat me like a pet at home. Jagged scars on my back memories of your love.

    Only meant for us to see, Right?

    3. Used to be scared of his belt till I tasted your kiss. It eats me from inside out and leaves me torn.

    Trapped in your elegant world, in your embrace so tight it killed my every dream.

    Like the gold jewelry from Valentine. Alluring and heavy. 

    4. Used to be scared of his voice till I heard your laugh. Honey, I fell for it before I even knew you. Smooth and unrestrained, engraving it on every marble wall.

    5. Used to be scared of his stares until I faced your smile, kept me frozen in a daze. Silent but brutal.

    One minute you kissed me like you meant it, just to treat me like the sand underneath your feet.

    6.Used to be scared of you until I knew the location of the key.

    The beginning of my downfall. Chucky's atonement.


Premium Member Glenna's Wedding---1975

We went to Glenna’s wedding
that late afternoon in summer, you 
and I destined next, never younger.

And there was a rigatoni buffet
and open bar soaked in Popov
and lime, and everyone 

was blessed and blasted
in swaddling polyester and chiffon 
as evening did the Hustle away--

And, it was our night after 
Glenna’s wedding 
stealing the honeymoon,

out at the cottage, until 
that fine summer’s threads
shredded off to the floor,

deep into late, warm nights
of a settling fog, much
like doubt and loss.

    We went to Glenna’s wedding
    that afternoon in summer
    never younger, 

    and there was rigatoni
    Popov, shredding threads
    settling fog...Perspective 

is a kaleidoscope 
of tumbling dreams
down the tunneled lens.

I knew the future once:
and it is this idle I have
to wonder in.
© Craig Sipe  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Pink Polyester Pants

~~~~~~~~                     Pink Polyester Pants               ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I really like to ride my bike, outside your porch, hopin' for a glimpse,
of you sitting, singing dress a clinging in neatly pleated floral chintz.
  
And that time after school-ly when that bully pinched you on the buttocks,...
Though I decked em, I must respect em for admirin' your tattered denim cut-offs.
  
And, oh, did you look sweet and sassy when you wore that peasant blouse,... 
though maybe not so replete and classy when you trick or treat'd at my house.  

Though you are one year older, I sure feel bolder a'climbin' o yer backyard fence.   
But I really flipped when I saw you slipped inside those pink polyester pants!

Premium Member Love's Sufficient Time

I can accept love 
I have time to learn
and earn

But
can I embrace compassion
I feel sure appreciates me
far more wisely
than I have yet earned?

Positive passions more pleasant
than I could ever find sufficient time
to brilliantly learn

My adoration spot
on this comedy central
AnalRetentive Stage
listing
lusting
more Left Winged 
liberating
than Right Fringed 
defensively sedating.

I am haunted
by an oppressively disabling gap
between what I have sufficient healthy time
to accomplish
to communicate
to experientially articulate
as anemically contrasted
to all I can imagine health
and safe wealth doing
togathering in this day,
this week,
this month,
this year,
this final decade
of my personal AnthroGay Pride
and WhitePrivilege
to prefer Black Lives MultiEnculturing Matter
and wild Paradise 
PolyCulturing Pleasure

Win/Win bi-everything trans-thriving
positively contagious
as the clap

On a loved ones back
is my gay worldview sound
of one left hand liberally clapping
out FreeDom
ReStorative Justice
Love

Between my NonViolently WinWin Communicating
brothers and sisters

LeftBrain verbally dominant 
claiming Peace
I nonverbally feel
RightBrain left outside
closeted ungay emotional neglect

In my polyculturally wise universe
feeling all EarthMother's love,
Polyester is always Lose/Lose trauma
bad news drama
while
PolyPathic Win/Win
evokes sacred warm
wet 1 within 0 zen rivers
of deeply penetrating gospel

Good regenerative humor
despite toxic rumors
that my indigenous EarthTribe
intentional family
and trauma-infested community
are suffering from an overheated climate
of monoculturing dementia

Increasingly difficult to recall
the love we have had time to learn
is earned one timeless 
warm remembering moment
always liberally Here 
as time conserving Now,
unconditionally warm
well-moisturized regard

For healthy hygiene
is next to wealthy
goddessness

A gay gratitude gift
more than sufficiently
out proud
well endowed.

Premium Member A Placid Docile April Day

it is one of those placid docile what-do-we-do April days.
I sit outside naked except for my light polyester mumu.
an airplane wakes the cloud with her powerful engine noises.
my wind chimes tingle a mirthful melody.

Sophie, my cocker spaniel sits behind me, she is an inside dog.
Buddy, our husky mix trots a giant six pound bone around in his mouth.
there is a car on Kansas Avenue, we cannot see it, but we hear it.
nothing else is moving until I spy a blue jay landing on a branch.

so light in hue, that he could be an arctic jay, he is the lightest gray.
annoyingly loud muscle car can be heard in the distance, tearing up a street.
roosters behind me begin to crow, even though it is noon.
melodic chimes heighten their melody as today’s breeze picks up.

trilling of birds gives me a reassuring thought of God in the yard.
behind me I hear the purr of our porch refrigerator.
if there has ever been a calmer day, I was not aware of it.
someone revs a car engine far off in the distance.
old man or boy, I think, or old lady in a mumu. This makes me smile.


Premium Member A Dress for Monday

Wear the green dress today
in the back of the closet.
The floor-length polyester blend
with little bicycles
peddling all over it.

Your kindergarteners
love to count the bicycles
as much as I do. 

One, two, three, four
five, six, seven, eight,
(and turn around for more)
nine, ten, eleven, twelve
little bicycles. 

I woke up early
to press the  wrinkles out,
thinking of your freckled arms
fitting through the sleeves,
and the way you wiggle into it.

The dress still holds
the smell of citrus
perfume from before.  

You sashay when you wear
long dresses on workdays. 
I witness the subtle difference,
and the way you saunter,
and all your variations
color my life. 

I enjoy, more than all,
the emerald fabric on you,
it has a suggestive rustle. 
The heavy layers
over your toned, determined legs
is lovely to gaze at
when you strut through the kitchen. 

And somewhere sleeping,
the sun in her pale and trying beauty,
has yet to drag itself
in lesser shades across the sky.

Choosing a dress for you
from your closet of forgotten colors
is still the life I want, and better 
than anything outside.
© CC Bloom  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Pow Wow / Ct. 2009 (Revised)

The concrete and plastic, chrome domed
bricked up auditorIum rang
like a hollow bell,
a meager few red skins circle the stadium seats
like smoke from a mythical “peace” pipe
ragged, distilled, diluted, distraught, “dised”
A 21st century ablution of angst.

Round shoulders meet, sidelong glances;
old and young form for dances.

All semblance of nature betrayed 
by polyester tassels and cheap Crayola yarn fringe,
a sneakers and moccasins mix,
only the whistle-drum, and sage smoke sanctifies.
Circles form, crouching over polyurethane floors
silver hair, braids and hands harden; they bear,
bore the “dis” missive, disdain,
the balm of music eased all the pain.

Round shoulders meet, sidelong glances;
old and young form for dances.

The roof “dis” appears becomes the night sky
air vibrates with the heart thumping of stick on skin,
and so WE, the PEOPLE begin.
Chants warm the taunt throats of man;
a whistle trills the coyotes howl.
Heartbeat sings a drum song,
bowed and bent the circle dancers form.

Stomp, twirl, braids a whirl, winged dancers rattle and bell.
Mans peacock form no longer forlorn rises above the well.

Chant the tell tale heart,
the sorrow the joy, drum thumpers hatchets fall
on the neck of a starry night.
Drum and dance invite…..
scream,….soul song, smoke dream,
eyes daze in a reverent scheme.
Form: Narrative

Premium Member Wish of a Rooster

WISH OF A ROOSTER

                   Swinging scarlet red velvet crown,
                    flapping wings feathered golden-brown  
                     boldly ignoring the Master’s frown,
                     roams the brave rooster,
                       being the booster 
                       of poultry, far away from town.

       Rooster wanders free frolic stepping proud,
         declaring early dawn, whistling shrill loud.
              Close- by resort attracts it.
            On yard sometimes makes visit,
             looks at posh auditorium,
            large dining hall on decorum.

             Table cover of polyester
        dazzled glittered charming the rooster.
        Wanted to touch its glossy polish.
        At last fulfilled its earnest wish.
          Reached  on table as delicious dish.

03/05/21
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Ode To Bobby Joe

There once was a man named Bobby Joe
From a small town in New Mexico
Always wearing pointed toed cowboy boots
With a three piece polyester business suit

Bobby Joe stood about six foot four
Was handsome and sun-tanned dark
All the women fell in love at first sight
And were left with a broken heart

Bobby Joe was smart and serious
Had a fight to pick with big business
Said they were ruining Indian land
With big oil rigs digging in the sand

The Harvard lawyers talked in corporate-speak
To the paid for judges to whom they did entreat
After pleading their case for twenty-four hours long
Bobby Joe simply said, “What you’re doing is wrong”

“You’re on Indian lands under a made-up law
Leaving nothing behind but an ugly scar
Lining your pockets with profits never higher
You say all is fair and I say you’re a liar”

Bobby Joe knew it was a case he couldn’t win
But he also knew he had to try
No one would fight for the poor Indian
No one could hear the Great Spirit cry

While in court he unveiled all their lies
Then at night he would sleep with their wives
He was losing his case on legal terms
But news reports made executives squirm

When they found Bobby Joe full of bullet holes
Suspects, they had an awful lot
By a jealous husband or a forlorn wife
Or an executive hit man he was shot

The case was closed with no arrests made
Everyone was glad that he was gone
American greed won again that day
Writing a tragic end to this hero's song
© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Ode

Premium Member Skeleton Hollow Lament

Written: July 30th, 2026, for a contest sponsored by Seth Pina

        *********
 
Your very skeleton
is not spun from cotton and polyester.
No, it is not carved from wood,
nor forged from metal or steel.
Its substance is—nerve endings, 
tissue, and blood—
circulatory systems, 
bound,
but not from woven fabric.

A lethal lotus languishes,
lamenting in its limbo,
crouched on bended knee.

A curved carcass, prostrate
beneath time’s passing wheel.
Its chalk-white bones
measure the slow decay,
where darkness lingers
in the hollow space within.

Cyborg of a cyber-skeleton.
Coiled with a steel-stitch
sprocket of subjugation. 
Its spinal cord, bound in circuitry,
hums with sorrow.

A crestfallen cranium,
a heavy, hollowed 
moon-orb weighed down 
by the gravity of grief 
in synthesized solitude.

Amidst this woeful wheel,
supplications of skinless steel
fuse forgotten fragility and fortitude
into a fatalistic future.

For you were neither tool nor tree,
but a tight-furled tapestry of flesh—
a weeping engine, bound in bone,
where the wild pulse fights the gear,
and slowly fades to rust.
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.

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