Sleeveless Poems

Premium MemberGirly-Girl

...Crown of gold curls in rainbow wrappers.
Girly-girl, at two, favored to be beautiful.
Eyelids delight to be painted baby-girl green.
Dolly’s lascivious lashes soaked in black ink.

Innocent stra...
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Categories: sleeveless, beauty, child, girl, growing
Form: Free verse

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A waterwheel, raceway, grinding stones (bedstone and runner stone), gears, shafts, and a hopper for grain, Diet. The crested honey buzzard ...
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Categories: sleeveless, adventure, creation, film, horse,
Form: Bio


Premium MemberIn the Park

...The slow budding, turn up of coloring; the tincture
in pinks, yellows, magnolia greens, and bluer skies.
Smile of eyes and mountain cheeks; a Springtime elixir.
Winter white and tawny skin absorbi...
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Categories: sleeveless, crush, spring,
Form: Rhyme

Sleeveless Blouse

...My eyes have found in your seams
While walking over the edges of my garment.
The intricate stitches, holding together the efforts of the steam iron
Become these knots untied.

The layers and lay...
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Categories: sleeveless, conflict, emotions, feelings, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse

Augusts turn

...I saw you
tip toe through the change
Unflatteringly and seamlessly
You turned from Summer to August
The forebode was bothered
I was sleeveless until you found me
That  Tempest wind
with its ow...
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Categories: sleeveless, anxiety,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberRain Dis-explained Mood

...rain dis-explained mood
umbrella’s up & at ‘em
and ready to pack
Past night’s wind whipped me
into a wild frenzy

sleeveless sun-soak
light shorts, aloe, and sunscreen
sunglasses and party th...
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Categories: sleeveless, celebration, rain, sun, weather,
Form: Tanka

Premium MemberPlaying Games with an Ancient

...I returned home after forty years to my home island of Hawaii. Its preferred nickname is the Big Island, lovingly a.k.a., the Orchid Isle, and yes, a.k.a., the Volcanic Island. Rightly named ...
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Categories: sleeveless, analogy, anxiety, change, courage,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Premium MemberRadiant Fall

...Fall's levitating leaves,
wafting on gentle breeze.
Each one vainly believes
it can fly high with ease.
Colors beg hearts to cease!

Kaleidoscopic trees
wave wild without surcease, 
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Categories: sleeveless, autumn, color, flying, seasons,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDifferent Is Just Different

...Different is Just Different

He’s tall and muscular
and sports a short gray beard.
I see him every Sunday.
Often, he stands near
the church’s jazz band, moving
in rhythm with the music.
Maybe...
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Categories: sleeveless, anti bullying, character, identity,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberEmerald Fantasy

...Weird shapes pass before me
     vanish ere I scream 

   Storms form, Dublin down
     ~ ghosts in sleeveless gowns...
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Categories: sleeveless, cry, fantasy, storm, surreal,
Form: Couplet

A Solitary Sojourn

...Upon a littered path I trod, alone,
A companion sought in my wanderings.
From afar, a peculiar man appeared,
In an abandoned caravan he resided.

Clad in tattered, sleeveless attire,
His laught...
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Categories: sleeveless, adventure, allusion, imagination, voice,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberThe Dingo Kid

...Beware of the dingo and watch out for your goat,
he hates our current leader, but is unable to vote.
He’s been doing hard time for relations with a horse,
he finally escaped but then he was caught...
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Categories: sleeveless, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Ready Sack Letter of a School

...In her school The Readily Received:
Staff didn’t let herself be deceived 
By flashed smiles finer than “How are you?”
“Last-minute sack letter always slew!”
A Good Montessori’s Love letter
Teach...
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Categories: sleeveless, education, evil, school, women,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWelcome To Kansas

...Ninety-nine-degree high yesterday, fifty-two-degree high today.
The leaves are not falling yet, and the roses are still budding.
We are wearing layers, not sure if it will be sleeveless weather or ...
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Categories: sleeveless, weather,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSilly Babble

...One dark night in the sunshine
I was wearing my PJ's made of wine
in the kitchen I boiled water in a plastic bowl
and made peanut butter toast that was an egg roll
and prepared coffee that was te...
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Categories: sleeveless, fun, nonsense, silly,
Form: Rhyme

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