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Shirtsleeves Poems - Poems about Shirtsleeves


Premium Member September Falls
...Summer is over; kids are back at school; Everyone is thankful for the cool nights. People are beginning to drain their pool, Thankful, there are no more mosquito bites.......

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Categories: shirtsleeves, change, color, earth, how
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member The Best Part Of Me
...(The words in quotes are Ed Sheeran song titles.) "Remember the name" you loved to repeat? "Kiss me" again on Piccadilly Street. Smell the "supermarket flowers---" lilies, roses, and such. "Take me back to London," where our "shirtsleeves" would touch. Two "hands of gold" framed with silk sunshine, clinking together our glasses of wine... "The hills of Aberfeldy" were never so green with "a perfect duet" of "the j......

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Categories: shirtsleeves, boyfriend, break up, for
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Scenes From Home
...** SCENES FROM HOME ** The curtain wafts on an open-window’s breezing air, like liquid Blue in the room, bringing beauty with magic’s tracing The woman with her still raining, trickling water......

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Categories: shirtsleeves, animal, family, fantasy, home,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Growing Pains
...Listen to me, Darling. Let a smile replace that frown. I will lengthen all your shirtsleeves, I will let your pant legs down. You complain that you feel awkward And you don't know what to do, ......

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Categories: shirtsleeves, allegory
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Novembersummer
...Midfall and nearly all the trees Stand brown as broken sticks Against a sky impossibly blue, I in shirtsleeves a walking go With love and longings as my companions Kicking through the drifts of ......

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Categories: shirtsleeves, introspection, mystery, nature, seasons,
Form: Free verse




Book: Reflection on the Important Things