Packing for Camp
...The grandkids are heading to sleepaway camp,
Their clothing all labeled and packed,
Plus all of the extras they may or not need -
Way too much, as a matter of fact.
They bring pillows and blank...
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Categories:
sweatpants, granddaughter, grandson,
Form: Rhyme
Trapped in Words
...In the airport, there’s nothing to do.
But they’re taking off at once.
I didn’t decide to.
The luggage just appeared.
My feet almost got chewed off.
But I started my poem just in time.
I d...
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Categories:
sweatpants, writing,
Form: Free verse
I was buff at fifty five
...When I was fifty-five I lost weight and got into shape
Exercised to the point of near ridiculous, and looked great
My daughter said “Mom! You are buff!”
I had never been buff before
It felt terri...
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Categories:
sweatpants, me,
Form: Free verse
Borrow
...
I went to my neighbors
To ask for a favor
And said may I borrow
Stuff I need tomorrow,
But she stopped me short
With this stunning retort:
“Do you need sugar cane
Drano for a clogged drain...
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Categories:
sweatpants, crazy, humor,
Form: Rhyme
In October
...In October
the wind picks up
dusting the ground with fallen multicolored leaves
leaving bare trees to shiver
in October
people dress a little warmer
and jump on hay wagons
eager to reac...
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Categories:
sweatpants, autumn,
Form: Free verse
Out Of My Closet
...My closet, since you ask, is a cramped space,
Chosen and cherished fashionable base,
Essential part of my enchanted place,
With charm and chic to complement my face.
Shows off a...
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Categories:
sweatpants, clothes, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
ohio weather
...shorts in the morning
sweatpants in the evening
ohio weather...
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Categories:
sweatpants, weather,
Form: Haiku
Argh, I never got muffin top before why now
...Argh, I ne'er got muffin top before - why now!?
Once upon a time yours truly did allow
himself to consume anything in sight
eats of mine in the mein
included an assortment of chow.
Impossib...
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Categories:
sweatpants, adventure, age, angst, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
My Water Bottle
...There are flakes of black stuck to my palm
remnants of the bottle’s cheap paint
clinging to the rich warmth of my veins
It isn’t a surprise to find my water bottle in such a state
simply anothe...
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Categories:
sweatpants, analogy, identity, urban,
Form: Free verse
No the Blue Jeans Screamed
...No! The blue jeans screamed. We do not stretch that far!
The people driving by began laughing it up in the car.
They had seen the old woman who had eaten a moon and a star.
She waddled into the ho...
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Categories:
sweatpants, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
100 Percent
...She was five when she was set down for a talk. Don't walk alone in the dark, keys between your knuckles, don't let them take you to a second location, scream and fight. That is what her mom said, a f...
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Categories:
sweatpants, 12th grade, anxiety, father
Form: Free verse
Goodbye Six Pack Hello Poetry Scribes
...Goodbye six pack hello* poetry scribes
My poetic side COSMOFUNNEL
wordsmith thanks tumblr in his noggin
ofttimes triggering babbling brook
to swell after deluge
becoming stream of consciousne...
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Categories:
sweatpants, adventure, angst, april, body,
Form: Rhyme
Shambling On
...I wish I had the fortitude & Will
to dress in a clean shirt, tie,
neatly pressed slacks and suitable jacket
like an English gentleman, but….
one day
I appear in a supermarket
in sweatpants a...
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Categories:
sweatpants, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Inextricably Rooted With Hair Fixation
...Inextricably rooted with hair fixation
As a lad in grade school,
yours truly, (a diminutive, intuitive,
oversensitive, and vegetative potato head kid,
whose voice exhibited
a severe nasal twan...
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Categories:
sweatpants, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Shambling On
...One day I appear in the supermarket
in sweatpants and T.
Stained nocturnal, I drive to a fast-food restaurant
then sleep in that T, eat breakfast in that T,
wear that T all day,
then slapdash ...
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Categories:
sweatpants, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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