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Pinafore Poems - Poems about Pinafore

Premium MemberCassiopeia

...Just like her favorite character Alice, she wears a light blue dress and a pinafore, she pairs it up with white tights and black Mary Jane shoes.   A black ribbon pulls hair tight, she adds something...
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Categories: pinafore, fantasy, science fiction,
Form: Haibun

Allocation, Ally

...Allocation, O ally?
Resources put where?
In the heads of those who fly?
Worry, hast thou care?

O ye spirits, I collect!
End Times, be my Muse!
Golden gods to genuflect?
Dare to disabuse!

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Categories: pinafore, animal,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Membertravel light

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* I’m honored to say that this piece was used for a “War Poetry” class by Ann Marie Thornton at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. Many thanks to her and the students for their questions and pho...
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Categories: pinafore, analogy, child, war,
Form: Epic

Premium Membereaster sunday memories

...Lavender gingham dress
Teensy tiny cotton checks
Laced pinafore with dotted Swiss trim
Thick scratchy twirling tulle petticoat
Lacy white Sunday school gloves
I twirled my dress in my shiny pate...
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Categories: pinafore, memory,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMade With Love And kindness

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It's a soup that's made to order never from a store   
A little bouillon treat that's filled with herbs galore 
Not the kind you get from packets, no not that kind ! 
with itty bitty chicken b...
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Categories: pinafore, family, food,
Form: Rhyme



The Old House

...I visited my grandparents today.
Their home has never changed
in all the years I’ve visited
since my life began.

The white ceiling is stained
in shades of orange and peach
from the tobacco pi...
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Categories: pinafore, family, grandparents, memory,
Form: Free verse

Falling Petals

...My fingers ran over the bark
“A+K” nestled in a heart
Wouldn’t you come with me, he asked,
I cast a smile now an old scar
The gentle breeze closes my eyes
In the dusting of the springtime 
Swee...
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Categories: pinafore, age, confusion, memory, old,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberGod Was Wearing a Dress

...God was wearing a dress and a pinafore in my dream.
She had a bubble pipe 
She was blowing bubbles into planets
Creating the universe
God is a little girl I marveled

God continued her work
No...
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Categories: pinafore, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFloral Pink Snail From the Sixties

...Pink sixties floral design on the back of this snail so gay,
I look and ponder, wondering who owned it once upon a….
Was it an older woman, with snow white hair and wrinkles
Or a young girl wearin...
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Categories: pinafore, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWhites of Christmas

...fresh rhinestone snowflakes
Grandma’s hanky
furry Christmas ****
Star of Bethlehem
Scalloped lace pinafore
Daddy’s ironed collar
clean glistening memories
the whites of Christmas...
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Categories: pinafore, christmas,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOpen the Floodgates

...(Fictional, but based on the real experience of one of my close friends who lost her daughter in an accident)

 As I sat on my desk,
Hurrying with my pent up work,
A scrap of paper, l...
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Categories: pinafore, angst, child, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIt's Not My Fault

...It’s not my fault if you get stung
While wearing no shoes out-of-doors
It’s not my fault that you got pregnant
Because you lifted your pinafore.

It’s not my fault things didn’t go well
And you...
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Categories: pinafore, perspective, satire,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberTake Care of Him My Lord

...I hold my little new born child  
who is born in a hospital
in a town where tumbleweeds roll mild   
the Cancer has been staged, its terminal 
incurable and running wild 

every hair on his hea...
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Categories: pinafore, appreciation, life,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)

Premium MemberNorman Rockwell Scene

...I had to stop the car
to take another look.
It could have been a page 
from Norman Rockwell’s book.

A farmhouse painted white, 
a porch with rocking chairs,
chickens in the barnyard 
scratch...
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Categories: pinafore, art, humor, imagery, memory,
Form: Quatrain

Premium Membertears for luna -

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oh, my precious child,
let me kiss away your weep -
do not be troubled, the moon but bids good night,

       stars whispering their ancient lullaby,

swallowing not, the western rea...
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Categories: pinafore, appreciation, father daughter, love,
Form: Free verse

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