Short Mansfield Poems

Short Mansfield Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Mansfield by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Mansfield by length and keyword.


Plagued by Memories

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 quick to clamour he’s
not odd at all: oh, no!

We mustn’t turn to plagiarism –
no Caulfield, then: no Catcher.
But could there have been Majorism
if there had been no Thatcher?
Form: Ballad


Premium Member Too Hot To Handle

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 numerous times.
She loved her five children and kept her Playboy playmate figure.
Dying in a car crash in New Orleans at the young age of thirty-four.
She lived as if she knew she was running out of time.

Premium Member Jane Mansfield and Her Christmas Tree

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 husband, “point out the tree.”
He asked her, “what tree?”

In desperation she turned to her ten-year-old grandson.
Timmy, can you show these men where the tree is?
"Is that what you call them now?" Timmy asked.
men

Jayne In a Man's Field

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

Name Dropper Limerick Contest
Sponsored by Kevin Shaw September 19, 2017

*I actually took a photo with Jayne Mansfield
at an airbase in Holland when she was doing a touring promotion back in ’58. Lovely lady!
Form: Limerick

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