Long Shoestring Poems
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Circumstances
Circumstances
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire
Circumstances leaves you few A chances.
No nick, no pick, no give me more.
Just a little sauce.
No custard tart.
You on shoestring circumstance
It's rough-and-tough
In the orphan jungle
All I can stitch together in memory is my big...
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Categories:
shoestring, absence, blessing, caregiving, family, father, mother, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Life On a Spinning Ball
Alarm clock screams, it's time to rise,
bye bye sleepy dreams, into the lows from last night's highs,
ready yourself for the line or the cubicle cage,
tell yourself you'll be fine, while you silently rage,
what new rules...
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Categories:
shoestring, character, culture, feelings, humanity, society, today, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
From My Heart
How can I say what is on my heart
A heart that grew up on a farm day and night
It beat with respecting others
Our black neighbor was as loved as the white
What we are seeing today...
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Categories:
shoestring, christian, conflict, heart, love, poverty, race, trust,
Form:
Rhyme
An Inspiring Pile of Shoes
I attended a large gathering and took some time
to observe the great assortment of shoes stacked on the racks
I saw new shoes, pricey shoes, and shoes not worth a dime
and shoes that seemed to have...
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Categories:
shoestring, humor, inspirational, social,
Form:
Quatorzain
Deimos Perplexing State of Martian Crash Test Dummy
Anthropomorphic test device to explore
amply, cheaply tricked out
with super tramping,
albeit unsophisticated trappings
strewn ceiling to floor
available for purchase at Dollar store
(actually merchandise
cost more than 100 pennies)
nonetheless unmanned spacecraft made
perfect landing upon alien nation...
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Categories:
shoestring, adventure, appreciation, atheist, body, color, heaven, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
It Don'T Really Matter
It don’t really matter
If Plaster of Paris is not made in France
If Ginger and Fred never learned how to dance
If shoestring potatoes don’t grow in a shoe
It don’t really matter because I...
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Categories:
shoestring, fun, humor, love,
Form:
Rhyme
the dog and i
1
the dog came to see me the other day
and he pissed all over my
left shoestring
i can't stand to have someone
get my left shoestring wet
i think i would have begged him
to pee on my right shoestring
but...
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Categories:
shoestring, angst, destiny, humor,
Form:
Free verse
Memory Lane
Everyone does it time to time in each day
From your careless mistakes to a child at play
Sneaking the babysitter's cigarettes
Having that stray dog follow you home, then asking to keep it as a pet
A trip...
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Categories:
shoestring, childhood, children, life, time, memory, baseball, memory,
Form:
ABC
Winkless Crumble
Tight about the past—
transparent glass panes,
stained and cracked
by crooked, wicked lies.
Sacred are these settled energies.
They muddle about,
never lifting their feet.
I mean higher than the next—
higher than anything else.
Tether thyself to greatness.
Witness its greatness,
or keep thinking
in...
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Categories:
shoestring, conflict, environment, farewell, hope, longing, riddle, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Redemption Shoestring
Redemption from self
An invisibility cloak
And sharpened dagger
No matter the tumultuous weather
Hail , Thunderous, Lightning
Could tame
The pain never stop's
Even if you stare at the tulips and the corn crops
Because redemption never...
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Categories:
shoestring, autumn,
Form:
Free verse
The Fools Think I'M Overtweeting - In Trump's Own Words
They don’t get it, bunch of fools
Don’t they see how the media drools
Over each and every tweet
Crafted not to be discreet.
Are they blind to my great skill
Of bending media to my will,
Time and again I...
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Categories:
shoestring, allegory, humor, parody, political, satire, usa, vanity,
Form:
Rhyme
Retro Fair
Buckfast and concrete slabs
Neds and rain and thoughts of dad.
Highflats, pigeons, pavement's hue
Subway makes me think of you.
City City City lights
stream on by
flashin neons reds and yellows,
and the bridge that takes me into town-
full of...
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Categories:
shoestring, people, places, social, urban, me, me,
Form:
I do not know?
Soup Compared to Poetry Soup
Summertime, summertime
And homemade vegetable soup
This is no place for fruity loops
Only foods from the garden that rhyme
Oh! Give us soup in the summertime
One writes tomatoes, another squash
Another corn with peppers by gosh
End with dessert a...
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Categories:
shoestring, funny,
Form:
Free verse
Fantasy of the Two
Fantasy woman tends the world for her man
As one they blindly walk gazing
Living within their paradise
Fantasy mans iron grip holding tautly
Latched into his very existence
Living within her eyes
Fantasy woman her outlooking precise
Each step measured and...
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Categories:
shoestring, friendship, happiness, husband, love, wife, woman,
Form:
Free verse
Sitting In the Lobby To Read
His moustache was long and black,
silky at the ends, shiny almost,
slick with gel to keep the ends
turned up in a smile, even when
his lips didn't match. They look
like shoestring ends, she thought,
all perfectly pulled...
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Categories:
shoestring, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
A Special Christmas
A SPECIAL CHRISTMAS
Families should be together on Xmas day
Some kids’ folks are wealthy
They work abroad, but they never
Fail to come at Xmas for a whole week and see...
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Categories:
shoestring, happinesswork, together, work,
Form:
Free verse
The Miracle of Memories
My breath once scattered seeds of dandelions.
I stared in moments lost to grains of sand.
Walked among the nighttime stars in wonder;
Held golden leaves within my youthful hand.
Watched a shoestring dangle through the wide eyes of...
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Categories:
shoestring, adventure, blessing, celebration, happiness, memory, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Angels
They find me here,
a flickering vestige,
under incandescent
pendulum lighting
that was not long ago
strung up and tied
to the center beam
of an old moribund
shoestring warehouse
with the guilty look
of an...
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Categories:
shoestring, angel, death, solitude,
Form:
Free verse
Defending My Virtue
Who knew that I would need
shoestrings to escape rape?
I felt safe on a double date,
the “safety in numbers” misnomer.
He came on like a ten-armed
octopus with suction cup hands.
The couple in the back seat
were obviously...
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Categories:
shoestring, abuse,
Form:
Free verse
Senryu Rant: Love On a Shoestring
#1
warehouse board and care
elderly housed in neglect -
ass kicking death camps
#2
inner city schools
vertical playing fields free -
only teachers taxed
#3
bigots block poor votes,
“limbo rock” the new dance craze -
politics of war
#4
war on drugs conceit –
prisons new...
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Categories:
shoestring, abuse, anger, evil, life, drug,
Form:
Senryu