Bob's Tailor Shop
...I'm open for business except Sundays from nine to nine.
I have a 5-Star rating from the BBB because my work is very fine!
I specialize in tailoring garbage bags for we folks who were so named,
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Categories:
stencil, humorous, political,
Form: Rhyme
Day Slides Away
...Day slides away unspoken
Over the timeless hill
Dark oak and ash
Stencil the fading light
Black flickers of roost-bound rooks
Imprint the low sky’s cushion clouds
While half a world away
God’s...
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Categories:
stencil, beauty, bible, blessing, creation,
Form: Blank verse
ambages
...People say, when there's a will, there's a way
But this way will only lead me astray
Without you everything annoys me again
The faint sound of people I hear when my music stops
I don't wa...
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Categories:
stencil, 12th grade, grief, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Not Another Resolution
...Here we go with a New Year’s resolution
Deciding to make a change or start over
Forever arriving at the same conclusion
Were you intoxicated and now sober
Even if we design it or stamp it into ...
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Categories:
stencil, humorous, january, new year,
Form: Rhyme
Lied with Long Nose that Grows Horn Haiku
...when case came to close
Trump lied with long nose that grows
guilty we suppose
my poems may be crude
rather than having been rude
you became unglued
could be contagious
always was advantag...
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Categories:
stencil, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Montage
...Should I start at the middle
and spiral outward?
I mean I don’t know what I’m doing,
just winging it.
I’m going to need some colorless beads
for the scarecrow eyes
of raw memories.
This is m...
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Categories:
stencil, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Muddeled Muse Cacophony
...Thoughts can be blurry and empty.
paper on an easel, a whirlpool on a sheet
letting emotions explode into poetry,
explores the realm of cryptical and mystery
Crafting verbal art saps ...
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Categories:
stencil, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
My Homies That Don'T Know Me
...My homies that don't know me from the outside in
And wherever home is I feel outside in
I feel inside out
Wide open and shut
I keep silent but inside me i am screaming aloud
I keep trying to l...
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Categories:
stencil, absence, abuse, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Two Cents Worth
...Lest I be guilty of grossest negligence
I feel like I must put in my own two cents
As I watch and evaluate strong evidence
We owe a debt of gratitude to Mike Pence.
I know, I know, ...
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Categories:
stencil, perspective, political, tribute,
Form: Political Verse
The Pink Lady of Malibu
...Though her life span was less than a week,
The Pink Lady of Malibu was a glorious sight,
Never to be forgotten by anyone who was lucky enough to see her
The daring escapade spanned six months
Ti...
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Categories:
stencil, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Such Waste
...Such waste of pen,
if your only subject
self-centered men;
Such waste of pencil,
if vain women the
stencil, patterns and
frames of your poetry –
her many loves
and woe-it-try!
And if N...
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Categories:
stencil, god, introspection, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Masterpiece
...Master piece
A masterpiece
A work of Art
Created from our fathers heart
Unique and wonderfully made
He mastered and completed
Yet some defeated
They left you out
Mastering a piece
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Categories:
stencil, age, art, blessing,
Form: Prose Poetry
Soul Shavings
...Remain silent until it's time
to love again
Finger touches and tongue tips
dance again
Rain drops coursing leaf veins
I want to stencil my name
all over your anatomy
as if I never h...
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Categories:
stencil, longing, rain,
Form: Free verse
Rainbow Garden
...I Was off work not feeling too well
When covid 19 came along there was no time to dwell
I came back to work and sat in the huddle feeling nervous but I knew no hugs or a cuddle
Liesl asked if we ...
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Categories:
stencil, inspiration, poetry, rainbow,
Form: Rhyme
The Bread Box
...It sits on the pantry shelf where it's always been
The old blue bread box made of tin
with faded white letters B R E A D stencil on
for some reason of it I am fond
It no longer stores loafs or ...
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Categories:
stencil, life, memory,
Form: Rhyme
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