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Unbuttoning Poems - Poems about Unbuttoning

Premium MemberEchoes of Eclipse Flame

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Written: July 17, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: X F Lacasse

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From the anvil of solar eclipse flame ~
Sunsmith struck with a mallet lit by li...
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Categories: unbuttoning, analogy, summer,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberHarvest of Resilience

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A golden butter melting on warm toast,
tasting of home, a soft gasp wrapped 
in sweet memories, a heart held lightly 
by rays of summer sun, unbuttoning a gray,
crying sky that on...
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Categories: unbuttoning, analogy, literature, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Prologue 3

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   LizPiggo didn't answer, 
she just handed the money over to the 
Chinese lady and nestled into the quadruple 
wide booster seat the Chinese lady had placed 
for her. She liked LizPiggo. Liz...
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Categories: unbuttoning, art,
Form: Other

Premium MemberGetting Older

...She’d been depressed at seeing how her parents had aged in just a couple of years. She hadn’t really contemplated time much before, it had seemed an endless resource.

Seeing her lying listlessly i...
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Categories: unbuttoning, age, angst, boyfriend, depression,
Form: Free verse

The Antics of a Yoyo Thief

...The Antics Of A Yoyo Thief

Potential life of as juvenile delinquent
(ala bam mean future streetwise thug)
stopped dead in the tracks – manacles
the above two lines hopefully gives hint
nearly ...
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Categories: unbuttoning, 5th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Errata I

...Erotic Errata
by Michael R. Burch

I didn’t mean to love you; if I did,
it came unbid-
en, and should’ve remained hid-
den!

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Less Heroic Couplets: Marketing 101
by Michael R. Burch

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Categories: unbuttoning, crush, desire, funny love,
Form: Rhyme

Erotic Poems I

...Erotic Poems I

Marketing 101
by Michael R. Burch

Building her brand, she disrobes,
naked, except for her earlobes.


Erotic Errata
by Michael R. Burch

I didn’t mean to love you; if I d...
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Categories: unbuttoning, body, clothes, desire, love,
Form: Rhyme

Stella

...To feel the curve and fullness of your hips
My tongue sinking inside your pearly lips
Feeling the soft hard tissue of your twins
Swell of your chest promises more wins
Smell of yobody floats bene...
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Categories: unbuttoning, love, wife,
Form: Rhyme

The Antics of a Yoyo Thief

...Now scores of years 
after botched minor theft penchant 
courtesy security guard
analogous to inquisitorial trenchant
unforgettable verbal lashing
(suppressing me ululation to vent)
unwittingly...
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Categories: unbuttoning, 5th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Rhyme

Free Verse Iii

...Salve
by Michael R. Burch

for the victims and survivors of 9-11

The world is unsalvageable ...
but as we lie here
in bed
stricken to the heart by love
despite war’s
flickering images,

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Categories: unbuttoning, body, desire, kiss, love,
Form: Free verse

Christmas Peeps

...twas the night before christmas
i was alone in the house
off in the bedroom
unbuttoning my blouse

while drawing the curtains
i heard a big thud
peered out the window
to see santa donned in m...
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Categories: unbuttoning, holiday,
Form: Rhyme

The Name and Blue Sky On a Sunlit Friday Morning

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"The Name and Blue Sky on a Sunlit Friday Morning"




“There is something missing,” he announced.
“Oh,” She said, “in what way?”
“Well, “Love”? ...
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Categories: unbuttoning, faith, home, i am,
Form: Narrative

The Antics of a Would Be Mamas Yoyo Thief

...The Antics Of A Would Be Mama's Yoyo Thief
(now a penchant with less Zionist trenchant ululation to vent.)

Not a peep passed thru mine -
aye vaguely attest
what ten? eleven? twelve? age
of fol...
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Categories: unbuttoning, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Metrical Tale

Premium MemberApproaching Storm

...Approaching Storm
     

by Edmund Siejka


It was unexpected
For what everyone thought 
Would be a mild April
That no one saw it coming.

The first signs
Came over the horizon
Thick gra...
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Categories: unbuttoning, life,
Form: Narrative

Unbuttoning

...Scratching the rusted face 
of the dust storm? 
to read the message.
   
             I have come very far,
             from the old stinks.
             It was not the escape.

The unshaped...
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Categories: unbuttoning, art,
Form: ABC

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