Short Overalls Poems

Brand new overalls
Oil resistant steel toed boots
Hardhat forgotten

By Robb A. Kopp...

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A young man in overalls 
remarked to me: 
"How 'bout them Redskins?" 
I couldn't think of anything 
worthwhile to say, so 
I refrained from speaking....

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Some wear Overalls.The rain bows
Some
Wears overalls
The rain bows
Weigh
Up high
Hand the streams that are streamed
rarely
do comet true
Why Kant
Aye...

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Jesus is rolling dice at a party with some women
wearing overalls and boots
he rolls the dice
a women looks at the corner of her eye and says
"you got a three"...

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The legendary
Scarecrow, corn stalks, pumpkin head
Owner’s invention
Full with cloak and overalls
Outstretched arms seem inviting

Russell Sivey...

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Hill life, country side
Riding horses, redneck bride
Overalls and camouflage theme.
That's the new party scene.
Tobacco chewing and sipping on 
some moonshine
Come on to the country for a good ol' 
time....

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In the West it seems frost and jingle bells
In the East its now the hot sunshiny spells
Yet the dells look fabulous
whether quilted in snow
or bright green carpets
Nature can be spicy hot or icing on cake....

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Charlie Browns, alias Pig Pen,
wears overalls time and again.
Friends love him as he is;
a dust ball celebrating Christmas.


Written by Brenda Meier-Hans 
12.05.2014
Contest: A Christmas Character Clerihew
4th...

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With long hair wrapped up, rugged nails dirt dipped,
denim overalls and barnyard boots,
I set forth to get them gnarly raspberry stalks clipped,
and return with harvested horseradish roots
and frost freshened persimmon fruits.

12-30-19...

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will to be diff’rent
fractals with cursive curlicues
cream-colored overalls

ostracized by nuns
and formal catechisms
with habitual fashion sense

now I’m in control
spinning like a pinwheel
with poetic enunciation

showed them, showed them all
i could take off my uniform
it’s monotone gray
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First light’s companion
Warm sheets and lovers embrace neglected
Tired boots slid on by tired feet
Patchy overalls with smudgy name tag
A quick kiss and out the door
Into the morning
Switch flipped, card punched
Onward and outward
25 years next week
Never missed a day
Reliable as the tools in the box
Solid...

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McDiver’s Creek


Autumn’s over.
Wheatcake odors flood the wood
front porch. Andrew Stock,
in mackinaw and overalls,
tamps first tobacco of the day
and estimates his morning.

In an open field beyond McDiver’s Creek
a colt, palomino apricot
and snow, nips grass between
great gallops and the shock of trees. 


Donal Mahoney...

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Where is the new foreman I asked.
He’s down in the barn, herding the hens
I ran right down. Hens are quite a task.
He had brand new bib overalls; he fit right in

He’s a little young isn’t he? I asked my mom
You were younger, she quickly reminded me
The hens took to him like a hypnotic ‘om’.
I was the proudest parent I could ever be....

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“Children need poetry too!”


There once was a little cat
Which wore a polk-a-dot hat

And once there was a little dog
With a pair of striped overalls

They would run around and play
With each other every day

They would run so very fast
You couldn't tell at first glance

If striped paints were on the cat
Or the dog wore a polk-a-dot hat...

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Danny likes apples
Danny likes pears
But Danny does not like 
To sit in his high-chair

Danny likes to wear overalls
He likes his shirt and socks too
But Danny won’t stay still long enough
To let me put on his shoes

Danny likes to go shopping
Danny likes the grocery store
Danny likes to ride in the shopping cart
But in his stroller, Danny won’t go!...

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Marlboro Man


Autumn's over.
Wheat cake odors flood 
the wood front porch. Andrew Block,

in mackinaw and overalls,
tamps first tobacco of the day
and estimates his morning.

In an open field
beyond McDiver's Creek
Andrew Block can see his colt,

palamino apricot and snow,
nip grass between great gallops 
and the shock of trees.


Donal Mahoney...

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Kentucky Dawn
  
Autumn’s over.
Wheat cake odors flood the wood
front porch. Andrew Block,

in mackinaw and overalls,
tamps first tobacco of the day
and estimates his morning.
 
In an open field
beyond McDiver’s Creek
Andrew Block can see his colt,

palomino apricot and snow, 
nip grass between
great gallops and the shock of trees.
 

Donal Mahoney...

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We navigate around most pot holes 
but they tend to grow in number.
Time and again jarring the heart... but we move on.
Losing a few pieces of soul but we must roll along.
Then we taste a patch of smoothness
the heart is seduced and soothed.
Until the potholes turn vicious and break us..

In the rear-view mirror, 
I see Jesus in Carhart overalls...
filling in the pits....

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My bib overalls
                              dried mud on both knees.
                              Dirt in the pockets
                              half pack of green peas.
                              I`m back in the garden
                              $10 for seeds,
                              for 5 bucks of produce
                              bug bites and weeds....

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"Gene of figmentation" 

He left home on an empty tummy, aching... and aching by each step, the echoes of a broken home where dad cannot put the gin down, mom still on that pill that drowned the good kids to end up in orange overalls.

A heavy heart, a mind diluted by the fear of dreams of the future past, he cannot end up like his folks yet the apple don't fall too far from a tree.......

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Sepia photo 
of my grandparents,
circa 1919.
Framed by a skeleton
of timbers.
He,a strapping,giant 
of a man
with saw in hand.
Worn, bib overalls,
carpenters belt.
She, a comely whisper,
cradling my father.
Summer dress billowing. 
No power tools then.
Each board inspected,
cut by hand, firmly nailed,
to craft the masterpiece
of a house, that would become, 
my grandparents home...

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waterfalls thunder down Himalayan peaks,
cuckoo calls pierce echoing mountains,
April displays stalls of flowers for customer bees,
pines wait, wearing overalls of pearl white snow,
river flows silent between walls of ancient rocks!

Something beautiful in 5 lines poetry contest
Charles Messina sponsored
written 07/Nov/2021
rhyme see bold highlighted words...

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He had on his bibbed overalls, and his red kerchief.
Finally found his worn straw hat, with great relief.
Headed out on the water with a wave and a wish.
Heard plenty of bass making a splash or a swish.

Good luck! Said his girl, who refused to go.
She could not bear water; her fear was aglow.
She thought she might drown, but she encouraged him.
He wished she would grow up and learn how to swim....

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It is mighty bizarre hanging here like this
Mom says I have to take it, so the doctor say
Next time I see his hairy face I'll give 'im a hiss
It's no fun just hanging in the closet  today
My back IS a whole heap better, yes way!


For the hanging in there contest
Poem by Doris Culverhouse
8/4/11

Inspired by and adorable kitty in overalls hanging in the closet on a hook. Looks like 
he lost his best friend yet content eerily....

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The girl in the red dress was broke
She needed to earn some green from a rich bloke
She donned some white overalls and  got a job to paint
The bloke gave her some blue paint without complaint

She was given the job to paint the porch blue
And finished in a jiffy, too good to be true
The blue blood asked "How did you finish so fast"
What she said next made him see red as he gasped
But she said it quite clearly
"That's not a Porch its a Ferrari"

For:  Show Me The Funny Contest...

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