Long Yard sale Poems

Who do you think you are?
I said it so many times to my old friend
too many times
until I said it loudly one last time
and that was the end
I had enough-   and banged down...

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Going through some old things that just had to go,
I came upon something that nearly got tossed.
Memories came to me from long ago. . . . 
I thrilled that my treasure was no longer lost.

Toys...

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No time for coffee, as the dawn arrives....
I raised the shade. The crowd's outside!
The mob takes over...I'm still in slippers
But someone bought our old hedge clippers!!

     Those folks just paid me...

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The sun dappled patio 
     irresistibly beckoned 
     pillowed pad to bedeck 
     cement spongsbob
     square pant sized couch...

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From here to wherever, I'll follow a yard sale sign,
it's a past time endeavor, for my collective state of mind,
I may buy some furniture, or a trinket for a dime,
yard saling is a pleasure, yes,...

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Another holiday has come to pass and I am no prouder to be an American than when it started.

What are these holidays for I ask myself?

Are they designed for the little man to feel like...

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The Yard Sale 

By Elton Camp

We must admit, to our disgrace
Have run out of storage space

We cannot understand just why
Things we don’t need multiply

There’s clothes from when I was trim
Fear I’ll never again be quite...

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The day is winding down and destiny is running around; the day is winding down and everyone is moving up and down the town, the streets are crowded and the people are divided the trucks...

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i'm outta control i thought i had issues my mom's got 8 ****in crazy personallities up in her skull you did'nt ****in raise me did you what slut im real and it's true i was...

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While preparing for the yard sale…there it was…
Just as tiny as I cautiously recalled
It is your hospital bracelet…
Amongst the many papers sprawled

Momentarily, I remembered seeing your tiny toes…tiny nose…
I pictured your precious little face…
I recalled...

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I walk around the world to find the one I love,

As funny as it seems I found up above!

I came across it one lonely day,

He whispered a few words and I was swayed.

But the simplicity...

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Baltimore Tales


lazy fat cat meowing, begging for a meal,
mother baking cookies, grates an orange peel. 

husband’s belly flopping, cold beer in his hand,
watching Jimmy Kimmel, singing with the band.

little Susie playing, with her pregnant worn...

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BET YOU DIDN’T KNOW
BEST OF TIMES WITH YOU HONEY

AS WE LAID TOGETHER SIDE BY SIDE LISTENING TO THE RAIN
YOU TOOK MY HAND, I TRUSTED YOU THOUGH I THOUGHT YOU WERE 
INSANE
THEN YOU ASKED IF I...

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Gary's Yard Sale, the story
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Shrunken sweaters, dusty ball caps
Tarnished silver, and hedge clippers
Pointed hat pins, gaudy jewelry
Faded jeans and worn out slippers
Greasy fry pan, wobbly table
Crates of dog-eared musty books
Tattered doilies, ragged Barbies
One brown old crock pot that still...

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A steam locomotive
rusted to tracks lies
in a ditch to bury
A kousa on a yard sale, final;
B&B rotted with soil pouring forth,
the roots exposed no longer able
to absorb the sweet life flowing
from the nozzle.

The sky turned...

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I was going through some boxes,
that were packed-up years ago.
Thinking I could throw away some stuff,
How much I didn't know.

A lot of it just made me laugh.
Why it was kept, I can't recall.
Our thinking wasn't...

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THE LOST WAGON TRAIN


Last fall, hurriedly clearing the attic,
We were packing lots of books and crocks 
For the church rummage sale frantic.
My son grabbed  a book from one box,
And threw it on the heap...

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It was a day like any other or so I thought
till I went outside and heard the noise
the cacophony made me cover my ears
the zombie apocalypse had started like I feared,

Up and down my street...

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My grandpa always loved good yard sales
To pick up odds and ends driving for miles

Would return with amazing things in his cart
As he loved old books to instruct and impart.

First he would read a book...

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We are pelted daily on television by some brassy tout,
Hawking useless stuff we're told we can't survive without!
"Not available at your local store - the price cannot be outdone;
Order now and I'll send you two...

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It’s a yard sale shopper’s paradise
With hidden treasures stashed amid the clutter.
Like fine bone china chipped about the edges.
It’s an heirloom set with all the pieces krazy-glued together,
Its approximation of perfection
Gives one reason to excuse...

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On a dusty easel at a yard sale awaiting a best offer from a patron
sat a severely damaged oil painting of a very lovely young woman.
Her beautiful frame was fractured and separated at the corners.
She...

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Cleaning for a yard sale, it was that old envelope she found,
The envelope worn and frail, but the ribbon around it still bound,
A tear coming to her eye as she knew what was inside,
And the...

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 Saturday yard sale (moving to a heritage apartment)
years of collecting and lots must go even things of contentment
two china cabinets, one from mom, one grandma, that still bring a smile
perhaps, I can somehow keep...

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