Straw Hat Poems - Poems about Straw Hat

Prison Wallpaper

...Encage us we are of collective souls
Display us in prisoned wallpaper as ghouls
Send us into these sepsis tanks, in tin cans 
in torture dungeons, in faraway lands                      
Mista...

Sand Promises -POTW

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Flip flops and straw hat adorn him, beach wear suits him nicely
Kind is he to her as he scoops into a bucket measuring precisely

Casted are his piteous passions in sunstruck warm sands
Gently ...

It Is a Lovely Day

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Today Lil wears a flowered dress,	
a big straw hat, and comfy shoes
while watering Mom’s many blooms
the big and small, the pinks and blues.

Her golden dog and tabby cat
relax and calmly...

I'm All That and an Appreciative Hat

...I'm just an old-fashioned, flannel lumberjack shirt.
My father was some overalls, a farmer of dirt.
I'm a worn out and holey pair of cotton socks,
An unwanted sweater, packed away in a box.

My ...

Requiem for a motherless child

...oh! gentle breeze! flow past my fingers
to caress the meadow,
Wash my fair feet, silver stream 
as you whisper to the pebbles,
watch my face as you float white clouds!
high up in the blue, blue ...

Advice to a Young Poet

...Read Ted Kooser. Save your egg cartons until you have a fitted stack tall enough to be mistaken for an art project. Melt them down in a bucket of water. See how the float at first, then slowly succum...

a hot day and a smelter

...A hot day and a smelter

Is it in Qatar, or in Dubai a friendly aluminum 
smelter for sale, the one in the picture on a TV add
looks ok
Now that my wife is on holiday with her aunt I cruse
on t...

The Flower Seller

...The Flower Seller

Amelia wares un- cuticled painted nails, 

She hop scotches a pirate on one leg, 

Tip-toeing long sun cast morning shadows,

beneath billowing hand stitched, salty sails; ...

perfect gondolier

...I was thrilled to what the handsome gondolier wore
black and white striped shirt, straw hat,
red bow dripping off back of hat….
like Sophia Loren films from the sixties...

The Big Fish That Got Away

...At Farmer John's pond, afternoon's sway,
A boy with hair, wiry sandy fray.
Shoeless, in the light of day,
Dreaming of a prize to lay.
His straw hat, a humble crown,
In a world so vast, so far fr...

I view Father's view you see me I see you-

...I view Father's view
you see me I see you
the view outside
his clouded eyes
back drop summer green leaves

the clothes he wears
straw-hat brim
around bill shadow

I vi...

Paesano of Gulf Circle

...the gulf circle is where 
brown pelicans dive for their 
dinner over the heads 
of the hungry masculine 
wood storks looking men
swarming in schools like shark 
 
preying on beautiful elderly ...

Origins

...I was conceived
in a magical realm 
where I can where the sun
on my head like a straw hat
the sea around my torso
like a cocktail gown
with conch shells and coral reefs
The white sand like fli...

Family Tree

...Let me catch you in the morning when the sun comes out.
Under the dawn of light, you’re a beautiful sight.
With your warmth swirls with a dance before me, like butterflies in flight.
Taking my sou...

New Home

...A Kraken with a straw hat cracking jokes and slapping racist white folks. I get my Xbox gauntlet to fight jellyfish ghosts with my friend a talking duck in a Tonka truck. I am asking as be where the ...

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