orange is my delight
...I am a girl, and pink is okay
but orange is my delight
Give me orange or nothing at all
I like it in polka dots, plaids, and paisleys
Stripes are not my favorite, but I would take stripes
If it ...
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Categories:
plaids, art, me,
Form: Free verse
Sheila is a Designer
...Sheila is a designer
Mixing plaids, stripes and florals
Marrying odd colors
Her finished rooms look chic and polished
When I do the same thing
It’s a messy hodge podge of ugliness...
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Categories:
plaids, woman,
Form: Free verse
I Have Clipped my Shopping Antennas
...I have clipped my shopping antennas
No more garage sales, resale shops or flea markets
I cannot be trusted
I am a lover of shiny things, odd things, weird things
I cannot resist buying sequins,...
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Categories:
plaids, me,
Form: Free verse
U might KNOW OF ME BY MY WEAR-
...You might know me by my wear;
Sorely I stand before me, yet the me not really me, yet surely be
if you were to open door therein is hangers full of clothes that’s just there...
Shirts, cargo pa...
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Categories:
plaids, analogy, appreciation, character, funny,
Form: Free verse
They Speak of Fat Quarters
...they are talking about fat quarters again
if you don’t know what they are, let me run this by you
thimble, needle, Elna, Singer, Brother, White
Could they be referring to astronauts?
If you thi...
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Categories:
plaids, women,
Form: Prose Poetry
Autumn Is Loving Herself
...School has started, the plaids are walking in place
We are cheering for our football teams
Loving mustard colored gourds and pumpkins
Autumn is loving her power as we decorate...
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Categories:
plaids, autumn,
Form: Personification
Rudolphs Selfies
...Rudolph wanted to look prettier, so he asked his elf to help.
The elf jumped straight down from the upper toy shelf.
Did you want to wear stripes, plaids, polka dots or what?
Sounds good said Rudo...
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Categories:
plaids, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Teen Magazine 1965
...teen magazine was popular in 1965 when I was thirteen
mom had Better Homes and Garden, Redbook and Women’s Day.
it was only right that my identical twin and I would have Teen.
mom’s magazines were...
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Categories:
plaids, nostalgia,
Form: Blank verse
Phat Argyle Cat
...Phat argyle cat so furry and fine
Your diamond plaids are right on time
In pink and gray, you may simply dine
On kibbles and bits, chased down with kittish wine....
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Categories:
plaids, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Monorhyme
How Lady Learned At Last
...*** How Lady Learned at Last ***
For decades, Lady daydreamed, wanting a full closet,
A packed, complete fashionable style:
Shoes to hats, to crown the French Bob
Of shinny, brunnette tresses a...
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Categories:
plaids, character, emotions, fashion, forgiveness,
Form: Narrative
Orange Yellow Pink Bedroom
...How do you like my new bedroom? She asked me.
It was bright cheerful, colorful, with wonderful touches.
I loved it as much as anyone has ever loved a bedroom.
Because it reminded me of my childhoo...
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Categories:
plaids, color,
Form: Narrative
I Run From a Sewing Machine
...The daughter of a professional seamstress, I am a tactile learner,
I have to feel the possible fabric to make a decision.
If it is rough like linen or denim, I am not a fan.
I like flowing soft, p...
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Categories:
plaids, art,
Form: Narrative
Shall I Make You a Jumper
...The tartan plaids are passé’, the new young hip fabric designer said.
She brought out the bolts of her new fall line and I gasped with joy.
I had never seen such beauty on a plain brown background ...
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Categories:
plaids, art,
Form: Free verse
September Readies Us
...September floats down from the trees in leaves
Piling up her yellows, reds, and browns
Squirrels scamper around the trunks of the oaks
Chasing each other, readying their winter antics
September...
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Categories:
plaids, autumn, september,
Form: Free verse
Touching Youth
...what planet could this be for boys of ten
and then one hundred
movement felt,
looking at the hardened grain
of hands caressed
with fingers pressed against themselves
absorbing stillness’...
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Categories:
plaids, 9th grade, age, education,
Form: Free verse
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