No Store Bought Dresses For Me
My mother was a perfectionist.
A seamstress who made all of our clothes
She would look at a dress in a window
Run home and make it but prettier.
I did not have a store-bought dress until I married.
It cost $19.99 and I was askance!
How dare they ask that much!
My husband had to send me back to buy it.
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Categories:
store bought, me,
Form: Free verse
Nothing Like Store Bought
succulent citrus
fruity and wet
dripping down my chin
I know I am in Georgia
When I can pick my own peach
Off of a tree in grandma's yard
heavenly nectar, loving the taste
nothing like store-bought
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Categories:
store bought, food,
Form: Free verse
No Longer Store Bought
Professional Poet…
to cringe at the term
A lonely consensus,
so much to learn
Days writing couplets,
nights dreamed in verse
Feelings when gifted,
mine to rehearse
Professional Poet…
to run but not hide
Resisting the accolades,
cousin of lies
The Muse calls my marker,
chits payout in thought
Each line spoken freely
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Categories:
store bought, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Store Bought Happiness
Store bought happiness.
A new dress
when you are young
and feel sexy.
Store bought happiness.
A hat and shoes
When you are older and do not.
Store bought happiness
To fill you up
to lift your spirits
Temporarily and never completely.
Store bought happiness
Fades rapidly
when the bills come in.
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Categories:
store bought, happiness, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
No Longer Store Bought
Professional Poet,
I cringe at the term
A lonely consensus,
so much to learn
Days writing couplets,
nights dreamed in verse
Feelings when gifted,
not mine to rehearse
Professional Poet,
to run and then hide
Resisting the accolade,
cousin of lies
The Muse calls my marker,
chits payout in thought
Each line spoken freely,
—no
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Categories:
store bought, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Store Bought Families
8 Hour Families
By Kevin Robey
December 23, 2013
In the places we both know
I keep finding them in dreams
For a fleeting moment it seems
I touch the gleam of the status
quo
Now I see these daydream
ghosts
Displayed behind this frosted
glass
The winter storm made by the
masses
Reminds me of what I’ll miss
the most
Crazy days selling delusional
lies
Never
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Categories:
store bought, faith, society,
Form: Epic
Categories:
store bought, life,
Form: Free verse
Store-Bought Halloween
Halloween is coming soon
it's not that far away
But it's nothing like it used to be
way back in my day.
Part of the fun when I was young
was creating your own disguise
by using this and using that
you just had to improvise.
You might be a Clown or a Pirate
no telling what you might be
dress in your parents
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Categories:
store bought, nostalgiaold, halloween, old,
Form: Rhyme
Halloween Poem # 3....Store-Bought ? No Way!
As I recall Halloween as a child
We used to dress up pretty wild
But not in costumes from the mall
In fact not from a store at all
We'd raid the closets in the house
And play a game of cat and mouse
To see who'd get the coolest stuff
An outfit that was off the cuff!
My brother mostly was a
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Categories:
store bought, childhood, holidayhalloween, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Store Bought
Cases of bottled water
are bought from the grocery store,
while breads are stuffed into sacks,
to be baked at home no more.
Plastic jugs of preserved milk
lay upon shelves for days;
cartons of chicken eggs
await a human's cooking ways.
The choices of various cheeses
confuse a mortal's busy mind;
cans of delicious treasures
are a stomach's priceless find.
A variety of society's foods
tempt the
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Categories:
store bought, food, life, social,
Form: Rhyme