Shoulder Strap Poems


Poem Without a Boat In It

...Do you remember that long-ago summer
Camping out down by the lake?
You, me, your sister, and my mother
And all of the memories we’d make?

Fishing, we found, was a pointless pursuit
For all tha...
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Categories: shoulder strap, childhood, friendship, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Unveilings

...It was not I that unveiled her beauty.
The model waiting to enter a camera lens
fusses over a shoulder strap and steps out.

Did I see a veil fall?
The crying girl beneath was erased in an insta...
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Categories: shoulder strap, poetry,
Form: Free verse


On the Double

...8/18/17

Put on a camo hat
Then checked each and every trap
And reset them, so there could be another catch

Been wearing a mask
To take care of the task
It's tedious, and helps being apt

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Categories: shoulder strap, dark, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme

Toujours

...Always, my golden muse of subtle secret entertaining
If comes, it is not my fault to see her even in the soup;
It seems you stealthily descended from a famous painting
Of the same blond season of ...
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Categories: shoulder strap, creation, fairy, i love
Form: Imagism

Why Did You Pull Me Over

...You Had No Reason To Pull Me Over

By Elton Camp

It gave poor Fred quite a fright
A siren and a flashing blue light

He was certain he wasn’t speeding
And that other laws he was heeding

He was only...
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Categories: shoulder strap, humorous,
Form: Rhyme


You'Re Beautiful

...You're beautiful
I say to my faultless boy
holding him like a mother
my love cleansing all the trouble 
my fingers soft on his baby skin
and smooth forehead

You're beautiful- but you always change
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Categories: shoulder strap, love, passion, people, romance,
Form: Free verse
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