the look of you in my David Bowie t-shirt
i swore to myself
when i saw who she became
that i would never want a domestic life,
i would never settle down.
but the simple act,
of holding you,
listening to the sounds of your sleeping
as you lay in my purple David Bowie t-shirt
two sizes too big,
i think i changed my mind.
i want a life with you.
i don't care if
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Categories:
t shirt, first love, i love
Form: Free verse
Got the T-Shirt
I've seen what you'll never see
I did what you dare not do
I hear what can't be heard
I know the knowledge unknown
I've been to the abyss
I lived many lives
I kissed death twice
I felt the slightest touch
I've swored past the limit
I tagged the rock at bottom
I've cried a river
I blead a pool
I carried the world
I thought the
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Categories:
t shirt, courage, desire, destiny, identity,
Form: Free verse
Nirvana T-Shirt
I mop the floor every night at the local convenience store.
Graveyard shift.
A teenage girl walks in wearing a Nirvana t-shirt.
She’s pretty ... and she gives me a headache.
A James Bond 007 guitar riff. Then the drums kick in. I can see the MTV video.
Cheerleaders.
The kids.
Mosh pit.
I'm spinning. ...
And I'm 17 and I am 50.
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Categories:
t shirt, age,
Form: Free verse
T-Shirt Dirt
Saw a T-shirt
on the backside writ
'Fart Now Loading'
Not enough space
to write
'Exploding'
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Categories:
t shirt, giggle, silly,
Form: Rhyme
High School Senior T-Shirt Suggestion
Struggle and Survive;
Or Sit there, lose and die.
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Categories:
t shirt, 12th grade, change, fear,
Form: Couplet
Memorized His T-Shirt
Your eyes I’d memorize, emotive brown.
I think you memorized those lines, oh you…
Tinged pink, the peaks of youth, don’t let me down.
You knelt at my curved knee to tie my shoe.
I ride your bike on handlebars, so cool.
Our bodies fit each other like a glove.
Your arms and legs, steady, don’t be a fool…
I’m safe as
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Categories:
t shirt, adventure, love,
Form: Sonnet
Jesus Vs the Purple T-Shirt
Church people
in their finest threads,
rushing off to place Jesus in their heads.
Me, lying in bed
a bleach-stained purple t shirt
sunlight eating through the drapes
mind somewhat intact
bad thoughts flooding into the head
sorry Jesus...no disrespect
but I need a little more sleep
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Categories:
t shirt, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Wet T-Shirt
Life is not a race and depression is real
Got the shirt done and dusted every now
... and then in the here and now the angels sing
Not a wet T-shirt competition ‘though the
living dwell and exist on that beach called
‘Challenge Sands’ and sometimes we fry
The heat bleaches meaning onto the fabric
orchestrates as mosaic a tapestry
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Categories:
t shirt, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Cuz the T-Shirt Says So - For Contest
Cuz the goddamn T-shirt says so!
Well, the first time it was Billy,
ball busting Billy, who said
“go ahead, just do it”.
To this day I am not sure
what caused me to follow
this instruction. The end result,
I had red finger tips
for three weeks
and my finger prints
are still on file
in the park
on that bench.
The opportunities
to “just do it!”
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Categories:
t shirt, humor, , cute,
Form: Free verse
Blue Collar T-Shirt
Blue Collar T-shirt
Don’t be unfazed and wonder
When i say i have been there
Where everyone doesn’t at a time rise
And hold their head to create chaos
And doesn’t keep minds free
To fear not to disrespect the rule of law
Nor be perturbed and be surprised
When i say i
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Categories:
t shirt, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
t shirt, devotion, loneliness, longing, lost
Form: Epigram
Categories:
t shirt, devotion, loneliness, longing, lost
Form: Epigram
Love's Inscribed On My T-Shirt
Silly old man, I've often been called
I love those words of endearment
My one and only real aim in life
Put smiles on faces, that's fulfillment
If I fail, it's back to the beginning I go
Surely I've done something wrong
Laughter is the basis of a joyful life
So giggle and sing along
Life will go on whether happy or sad
So
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Categories:
t shirt, love,
Form: Quatrain
Your T-Shirt
I hid the t-shirt
That you always wore
The one that smelled like you
Now that you are gone
I have searched everywhere
But cannot find it
I miss the smell of you
Covering me
From head to toe
I miss the way
The softness of your body
Pressed deeply into mine
I miss your gentle hands
Like Lewis and Clark
Exploring all my western lands
Most of all these
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Categories:
t shirt, girlfriend-boyfriend, , western,
Form: Prose Poetry
T Shirt
its cool
am not a fool
just got the blues
all the right tools
at time
i get some dirt
on my
T SHIRT
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Categories:
t shirt, nostalgia
Form: I do not know?
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