Twangy Poems - Poems about Twangy

Like Root Beer Diamonds

...Like Root Beer Diamonds

smokestack lightning on the pomona freeway
plays their twangy sound brimming with desire
tan mexican cheerleader rides in a ’46 chevy
passing neon hamburger stands in wa...

Life is a Song

...
Written: January 2nd, 2023, For Ink Empress Contest

Rumi verse" Sing to me in the silence of your heart and I will rise up to hear your triumphant song"
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Tha Boyfriend

...Making him argue with me about something silly, so we can make-up.
Stealing his pencil so he has to put his arms around me to get it.
Walking to class a different way, because I know I’ll pass him....

Weekend Memory

...Late 1940s England

the square
   was packed
& the high street full
meat&veg seemed plentiful

market barkers
  drew the queues
with jokes
         impromptu

shoppers filed
     neat& f...

Inferiority Complex As a Kid, Adolescent and Emerging Adult

...Inferiority complex as a kid, adolescent and emerging adult

Yours truly (an amazingly,
gracefully, and markedly modest
passively aging baby boomer -
formerly introverted long haired
pencil nec...

Inferiority Complex As a Kid, Adolescent and Emerging Adult Part Two

...timid, meek, and demure (effeminate) me,
essentially ruled the roost
regarding Harris household
sole son characterized vis a vis
presented passive resistant
outward nonestablishmentarian mold
w...

Market Day

...the square
   was packed
& the high street full
meat&veg seemed plentiful

market barkers
  drew the queues
with jokes
         impromptu

shoppers filed
     neat& formal
in sainsburys g...

Every Good Boy Deserves Favor

...He plays a steel guitar and serenades the stars.  
Electric tears turn into notes that play across the moon.

They speak of a lonely man, though women chase him.
He sees only her and when they ca...

Dollar Store

...The in-store music is country-slow,
the vibes twangy.
I pick through the tack and tinsel,
dig for rough diamonds.
Squeezing past other consumers,
sharp showers of oven scourers.
A toilet brush,...

My Taste In Music

...Clarinets, bassoons, oboes, ugh.
Flutes, oh, yes, Native American flute music please.
Violas. Don’t be prissy!
Cellos. Ha. Ha. Who wants to carry one to school?
First and second violins. Too stri...

Inferiority Complex As a Kid and Adult

...Inferiority Complex As A Kid And Adult!

I recall father, (now behold
at near ninety years old - maintains stronghold
on life, cuz born of sturdy mettle -
rumor claims bullion – ne'er did buckle...

A Sweet Hillbilly Boy

...Once there was a country boy called Chester,
     he came from the rural Appalachians;
got himself a farming job not far from a big city,
          he was unsophisticated and old fashioned.

He ...

A Chirping Message From Jiminy Cricket

...Brother and sister crickets please recognize grasshoppers, 
katydids, and locusts as part of well schooled, politely 
ordered named league known as Orthoptera, (pronounced 
or th hop tara), which ...

Only Racists Drink Here

...The light is low but the music loud,
blaring from fiddles and steel guitars.
The bar is filled with a moderate crowd,
could be anywhere, but here they are,
drinking and two-stepping in this bar.
...

Jukebox Gigolo

...Old Zack Adams sits a slouch’n so sloppy drunk on a bar-room stool,
Wear’n his cheap-threaded cowboy suit and a stained satin shirt.
All the while a peek’n and a leer’n at women like an old poor fo...

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