Mansfield Poems - Poems about Mansfield

...Are you perturbed by memories of things that went awry? Regret, and mere ephemeries - should we not put them by? I’m often plagued by mammaries (think Mansfield, think Monroe): the author’s q......

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...The barren ground bleached by the sacred sun scantily clothed children and dogs run Trees scarred by scavenged limbs Burned in pyres as sunlight dims Low water levels recorded on painted rocks ......

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...Is this tree beautiful or what? Her grandson did not see a tree. All he saw was Jane Mansfield. So she showed the picture to her son. He did not see a tree either. “Howard,” she said to her hu......

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...The guy who had long hair, now looks worse with short, one chap looks so serious all the time, more than he ought; strange that people like watching murder as tho' it's normal, personally, I prefe......

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...An only child, actress, singer, nightclub entertainer Jayne Mansfield. Her movie Too Hot to Handle made sense to the people who knew her. A tomato, lightning, a bonfire, married and divorce numero......

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...We could have boobs in the 50’s and 60’s We could have a nice round bottom. We could be Vargas girls, on our way to being Marilyn Monroe and Jane Mansfield. That all changed in the wave of a tw......

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...She was the prettiest doll in the whole world, Elegant, stunning, waist-less, buxom, Curves all over the place, No straight lines. Shocking for a child’s toy Shocking for 1959. Mattel was b......

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... Everybody got a Hollywood life story to tell More meat on the bone give juicier bites to sell Nobody ever turns in a tarnished silver screenplay Those warts and mistakes get Photos......

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...Jayne in a Man’s Field I wrote on a Porsche “Take the Jayne Train” How long in the mess hall would she remain She came out and saw She smiled, I said duh Took a photo with her less my brain ......

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...What turned my head to think I had a thread, Folk thought I was lazy so I did something crazy. Adventure was there, but afraid there'd be scare, So what the hell I figure, Nothing achieved til yo......

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...Thank you to Marilee Mansfield, whose marvelous metaphor for divorce inspired me to write this poem. You left Just for a little while, And when you came back We tried to take up just where we h......

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...In the lough near Kylemore Abbey Floats a little green fishing boat. It wears with pride its battered paint, From years of wear it lost its coat. It made bitter the old man's heart After sweet......

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...Sir Henryi Morgan lived a life of rags to riches. In his time, he first was an indentured slave. When freed, he drifted into crime. The century was seventeenth, The New World under Spanish ru......

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...They nicknamed Doris Day the girl next door But she never lived next door to me. Sting is known as sting but isn't a bee. Davy Jones was known as a monkey But I never saw him swing through trees. ......

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...BLUE VELVET--- (Written for Paul Mansfield) time again to document this submarine immersion scene the pleasure is all mine to glide and flow finally let go to disappear and......

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