Strapless Poems

Premium MemberDisco Music-USPS Stamp

...Disco Music

Strobe light looks like moon-sun.
Halo lights of red, blue, yellow, green.
He wears classic Saturday Night Fever white.
She has a white flower in her hair,
head and...
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Categories: strapless, america, music,
Form: Ekphrasis

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: strapless, beauty, child, girl, growing
Form: Free verse


she sets 'pon shale

....
                 for my
             convenance

                leopard 
          fundament winks
                  skirt 

             tuh die for
                 'blue'
        stra...
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Categories: strapless, birthday, books, celebration, write,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

Premium MemberCinderella Memories Dedication to My Father

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                   ~Cinderella Memories~

Young, self-confident, all debutantes
At the top of the golden,spiral,staircase.
And, oh my, she, was in a Cinderella mood!
The white f...
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Categories: strapless, chicago, father daughter, happiness,
Form: Bio

Premium MemberPlease Dont Make a Big Deal of Me

...Please don’t make a big deal about my birthday she said.
When you get to a certain age, you don’t want recognition.
She was wearing a pointed hat at the time.
I like to be incognito she lied.
Her...
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Categories: strapless, women,
Form: Narrative


Pretty Is

...When she was six years old,
she tried to make her hair look like 
how a friend’s did in school
but her coils wouldn’t kink anymore.
Her mama caught her
and asked her what she was doing.
She sai...
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Categories: strapless, beautiful, beauty, black african
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Formidable Duo

...Evelyn was a gorgeous woman, sweet tempered and fun.
Larry knew that the second he began to date her, three months ago.
She seemed to be everything he wanted except for one small thing.
She was ra...
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Categories: strapless, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Lyric

Anticipation

...I heard that you are coming, and I am ready for the meeting
I heard that you are coming, and here I am anxiously waiting 
The last time I heard that you were coming
My heart leaps and my spirit be...
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Categories: strapless, america, appreciation, blessing, celebration,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Q and a of Love

...Bubble gum? Nay, methinks a box of dark chocolates, 'tis best,

A daisy? Nay, methinks a bouquet of velvet red roses, 'tis best,

Pants outfit? Nay, methinks a full-length strapless white silk dr...
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Categories: strapless, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: List

Aging

...Nature ages like Youth,
a bougainvillea wrapped 
around a strapless watch.

Youth doesn’t look at the clock
but ignores passing hours unknowing,
innocent of the melting water.

It leaps and l...
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Categories: strapless, analogy,
Form: Free verse

The Fishing Trip

...Sitting under a generous eucalyptus tree
It's vibrant feet buried under dark gray moist
Ground. Its pendulum branches bending toward the
bubbly melodious canal; allowing the thin silvery
finger-l...
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Categories: strapless, beauty, emotions, feelings, fishing,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFor You - With Chris Green

...I light a candle and in its flutter
open envelopes,
each one holds a piece of your past

I make old stories fly.

A child's ringlets
bounce in a mirror
new shoes skip
ten to two
eleven
thr...
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Categories: strapless, beautiful, inspirational, love,
Form: Free verse

Sophie Reiff, Trophy Wife

...Is this the weekend, by the way?
           (I always think it’s Saturday!)
           Load the kids up in the car –
           country club (I hit the spa:
           hand the kids to gay Adolph...
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Categories: strapless, satire,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberFacets

...She was all that and much more
  The child with the smiles and the braids
    White dresses, friendly nods and compliancy
      Muddy shoes, trees and cursing
        Sent away from school and fr...
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Categories: strapless, beautiful, emotions, life, love,
Form: Free verse

The Librarian

...The Librarian

She polished her soft curved buttocks on my suede overcoat
And the smell of her ginseng breath made me stop
And raise my head
Losing my place in the card catalogue.
I shifted my ...
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Categories: strapless, lust,
Form: Free verse

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