Fashion In My Family
...My grandparents lived on farms – both sides of my family.
My mother’s parents and my father’s parents.
Overalls and button down shirts with pockets
Work boots for grandpas
Except my single gran...
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Categories:
pantsuits, family, fashion,
Form: Free verse
Teachers Wearing Jeans
...Teachers wearing jeans to school
Would have never happened in my day
As a student
They would not have been allowed to wear pants either
For in elementary school we had no male teachers
and in ...
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Categories:
pantsuits, teacher,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Ages of Carolyn
...She grew up in the South, in the age of Jim Crow
In a town divided, no black friends did she know
She has her father's russet red hair and mother's walnut-brown eyes
The rarest combination, I su...
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Categories:
pantsuits, dedication, mom, mother, mother
Form: Rhyme
I'M Cynical of Polly
...Growing up in a middle class suburb of Chicago, is it any wonder that Polly learned the art of political malarkey. Watching the City Council was probably the
place where she learned to see women st...
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Categories:
pantsuits, allusion, clothes, corruption, how
Form: Free verse
Visceral Intervals
...Romans 13:1 - “The authorities that exist have been established by God”…
Though that seems more of a facade, long shot and a fraud from a world long gone
Since sin no longer seems fiction in thi...
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Categories:
pantsuits, america, anger, conflict, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Revealed
...When dark clouds collide and
thunder erupts in shaken stares,
rains fall on unrelenting sorrows
along bramble thorn threads,
screaming leaves crash
into a frozen ground
of broken branches
and...
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Categories:
pantsuits, abuse, addiction, betrayal, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Trump's Voice and Its Tone
...Trump's Voice and Its Tone
Do you think this is what Paul Ryan is saying?
Could tell By Trump's loud voice and tone
Sure wish that he would leave us alone
As usual he is mad at someone again
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Categories:
pantsuits, abuse, allegory, analogy,
Form: Couplet