Long Toiletries Poems

The world outside my window

I view with one eye open 

while laying on my pillow

Birds are chirping and singing their songs

perched upon their tree of choice 

they know where they belong

I smell the coffee brewing...

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Negligent grooming habits unbridled

Apathy toward mine personal hygiene
i.e. relinquishing attention
linkedin with bare toiletries,
cuz I rarely spruced myself up
nor never maple leave
to cease being hard nut to crack
and rendered adopted
couture modus operandi
of yours truly shabby chic
figurative...

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The world outside my window
I view with one eye open 
while laying on my pillow
Birds are chirping and singing their songs
perched upon their tree of choice 
they know where they belong
I smell the coffee brewing...

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Peggy Cahill divine heavenly lady

Saint Vincent dePaul Food Pantry 
at Saint Mary's Parish
in Spring Mount blessed,
graced, and praised
courtesy grateful recipient,
he who crafts these words.

Acknowledgement forthcoming today
June 11th, 2022
Matthew Scott Harris
expresses gratitude concerning largesse
regarding quite a...

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I ducked into a Mega-Mart last night to grab some items my pregnant sister, Phyllis, needed bad. 
She’d just got off a plane and wasn’t feeling very well, so I had left her home with...

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Another bon voyage on next leg of journey...

into the unknown courting lovely lass
crafted four years ago to date 
flying colors while eldest progeny 
an undergraduate 
at storied university did pass.

Even at a young age, she
first...

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Dear Poetry Soup friends,

I am a born again Christian and follower of Jesus Christ. If you have not taken the time to learn of the love of the Creator, Jesus Christ, it is a good...

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Beloved daughter dubbed "Munchkin",
an appellation engineered by "mother"
now evinces enviable survival skills,
this papa dismissed himself attaining,
and though sites set
to attain satisfactory income

courtesy asper keeping
your inherited Semitic
nose to the grindstone
(cute as a button)
toward fiercely dedicated
academic success...

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Woke up (September 6th, 2020)...

Got outta bed boot
did not drag comb against head
of  beetle browed foo fighter,
he did not arise
bright eyed (by George), nor bushy tailed
to bucket flush toilet.

After attending her asinine
morning toiletries, the...

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I found it in a small community grocery store.                          ...

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This place is tucked out of the way,
across river from the city,
most folks don’t even know it’s here,
and I suppose that’s a pity.

Maybe the truck-stop that it serves
is what drives some people away,
but their hash-browns...

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At the end of every service each Sunday afternoon,
While walking out the back doors many sing a special tune,

Tables are set up with food and toiletries on top,
It becomes like a free food store or...

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The College Caravan

Last night we loaded the minivan with her
suitcases, Rubbermaid vats, and chest of plastic drawers
stuffed with clothing, toiletries, school supplies, and posters.
While our vehicle is tightly packed, her room stands hollow;
drained of stuff...

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Early one morning my Hubby was sleepily shuffling around and about.
Dawn was almost breaking and we were becoming late no doubt.
Toiletries were a waiting, as he shuffled near the morning throne.
Opening the lid, you’ll never...

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Matthew 7:12
King James Version
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.



I saw her on the street and...

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Pandemonium seeps and creeps like a thief in the night
Seeking to consume everything in sight
fear shown leads to their delight

madness, hopelessness & confusion
weaves a web of delusion
man, I think I need a whole body transfusion

I...

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The ghats,grey serpents in green thickets
cool and moist, dampens restless midgets

There ,in  a hotel ,in the lushness of the tropic's crown
are trees mighty tall with neat flights of stairs hanging down.

stood  perched on...

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Valley of the kings
Romantic ideas
Word spread rapidly
Undiscovered tomb of a pharoah
World renown archeological teams 
headed for Egypt

Amateurs, we stood in line for almost twenty-hours 
before it was our
turn to take a look inside.
From the sunlight...

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To nourish breaths  and twirl away
when island counts beachcomber years
folder and pen will imprint scripts
of journey’s tales sucked from my womb
with drawings and poems handwritten,
filling the cavity of time, of rainbow stars.

For private care,...

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I hear girlish laughter beyond the bagged onions.
Imagine her swimming naked among green ripples.
Her white arms are lily stems, hips as sleek as an otter
flow in a neon moonlight.

A sound system promotes discount cookies.
Visions of...

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I hear girlish laughter beyond the bagged onions.
Imagine her swimming naked among green ripples.
Her white arms are lily stems, hips as sleek as an otter
flow in a neon moonlight.
A sound system promotes discount cookies.
Visions of...

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Good morning dear love, how are you doing this morn
After our pleasantries embrace in early morning squeeze
Let us arise, rise up my darling totally awaken slumber torn
Throw back, throw down the comforter arise from bed...

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The First National Bank of Hambone,
That's me - As for Hambone...
He's the park's "Handy-man"
You might say,
Does odd jobs,
Always lookin' for more pay...


He averages five knocks on my door,
Each and every day and night,
Wantin' to "borrow...

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tryn press me
site conspiracies
over-rated poetry
look-ma's we's
write like me's
pressing
toiletries
slithering
on
then
sleeves
my moon
hung love
star spiraling shove
appealing to me
threw saturns
ringing rings
sumening
sound
am
i
ever bound


no never


what kiss made your knees weak
what words made your tears creak
squeak me clean from you
my ducts have dusted
mine...

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When I was a kid I heard this term
My simple young mind was aghast
How could there be a tree for such things
My mind was confused unsurpassed

Pictured this scene of a big old oak tree
With a...

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