Trappings
Trappings..
These are the persuaders
For the reign of separation..
Trappings appear
As words and stories
Memories and plans
Which are called home..
A home built on endless
Trappings..
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Categories:
trappings, fantasy, freedom, language, words,
Form: Blank verse
Trappings of the Mind
There a space in thoughts that we can hide.
It's triggered by a word, an idea , a visual an action but none the less we to find refuge.
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Categories:
trappings, deep, moving on, spiritual,
Form: Verse
A Gentleman's Trappings
A Gentleman's Trappings
Crisply pressed suits hang in a dark closet
Starched white shirts lie untouched in dresser drawers
Bland ties hang limply awaiting his touch
Highly shined black shoes and socks neatly arranged
These trappings of a gentleman gone to the grave
All waiting to be claimed by the Good Will thrift store
Copyright ©2008 Don Tyson
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Categories:
trappings, culture,
Form: Free verse
Trappings
It’s not what you put on
but what you take off
Each trapping a hangman
—and choking its cost
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)
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Categories:
trappings, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Familiar Trappings
Fifth dose, same overdose
I've got a nasty habit of gorging on low hanging fruit
It's fruit, right? Gotta be sweet
But these grapes are sour and apples bitter
But a rotten orange is a delicious feast
For those starved of the taste and sensation of being full
Yet that same rotten orange
Cannot be a diet unto itself
Yet for eight long
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Categories:
trappings, introspection,
Form: Prose
Categories:
trappings, adventure, allusion, animal, drink,
Form: Senryu
Trappings
Trappings
Smoky bars
are my den of iniquity
not social
filled glasses
with conversational
immunity.
Stinky fumes
as my frequent
rolled papers
with cancer
And desperation
lament.
These smoky bars
are just the bees
in fact
you can walk right through them
if you please
but never passed
least not with ease.
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Categories:
trappings, addiction,
Form: I do not know?
Limericks Crochetes: All the Trappings of the Rough-Neck Cult
Limericks crochetés : All the trappings of the rough-neck cult
All the trappings of the rough-neck cult
Baby-faced blond Aryans exult
Under star-striped umbrella
State seal insignia
Some Dad yells « OUT », muscle-men catapult
Can SUN also set in the Wild West
Where the cash – the Man says – will come to rest
How many will share wealth
How many get free
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Categories:
trappings, anti bullying, fear, freedom,
Form: Limerick
Cowboy's Trappings
You can tell a cowhand by his trappings
Head to toe.
He’s not a drugstore cowboy
who tries to fool you, though.
His boots are manly footwear
and they’re pointed at the toe.
They’re made to fit a stirrup
and show the way to go.
The boot tops climb toward his knees
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Categories:
trappings, character, clothes, culture, drug,
Form: Verse
Trappings
Trappings.
Flitting in,
and out,
of malls,
Scouring the aisles,
for more,
always for more,
walking,
undead,
through glittering halls.
Seeking out,
Luscious fabrics,
softest silk,
satin velvet,
crushed denim,
faux-fur,
trinkets and biscuits,
sleek gadgets,
that perfect shoe,
a must-have accessory,
cars, curtains, silver-ware,
gold time-pieces,
that stunning set of pearls,
as empty desire,
gleefully unfurls.
Piling onto,
heaving trolleys,
food,
and,
more food,
and yet more food,
to lighten the spirit,
to elevate the mood,
as countless starve,
a prime pot-roast,
of dead flesh,
we must carve.
Yet,
emptiness
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Categories:
trappings, satire, social,
Form: I do not know?
The Many Trappings
how many of us are locked up somewhere &
it feels as if we will never be free?
how many assorted trappings comprise the world in
which we live? (so much so that it seems a cliché to even mention it)
and how many of us walk the earth
feeling as if the traps in which we ourselves are stuck
may
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Categories:
trappings, life, may,
Form: Free verse