Disco 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
Girly-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
Cinderella 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
Please 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
A 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
The 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
For 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
Facets
...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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