Upholstery Poems - Poems about Upholstery

colored folks

...Crying
Fix the damn house
She done
Paid to me
Ain’t gonna happen
When rent come?
Please don’t drag the pope across the
Carpet irish boy

Nana
He lying

Born military
Gonna die military?
...

Realia

...A poodle lived in her shadow,
it was not ill-treated, just ignored,
its matted form
wandered around the house
looking to be noticed.

The living room
was littered with her underwear,
discarde...

A Good Pun is its Own Reword

...A photon checked into a hotel,
a rather interesting sight.
It was asked "Do you have luggage?"
It said, "No, I'm travelling light."

When I'm at home I like to read books,
and relax in my dress...

Rainbow Whimsy Inspired By Catch the Rainbow

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Written: December 11, 2024, for contest Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori
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When dusk strikes, the magic swirls,
In the gra...

Vibrant Threads of Childhood

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Written, September 13, 2024
For the I Form - Imagism Poetry Contest
Sponsor, Constance La France

Quote: Childhood is the most beautiful of all life's seasons." By Poet

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Yesterday's Joyride

...A body of chipped paint and red rust,
A weathered windshield under the dust 

Steering wheel aims in one last turn,
Dashboard suffers from many a sunburn 

Her cracked mirrors are still adjuste...

Renewal

...A scrapbook of soil
knits the land.
Earthworms patchwork
hidden birthing-chambers,
grit and gist abrades
into the leached sap
of leaf and grass.

Rain storms push up
an upholstery of...

Happy Cremation Anniversary, Auntie

...Home from a chemo session, uncle lights up
a cigarette and collapses
to the slick plastic that covers your chaise
lounge, auntie. He thumps the upholstery
with his legs and elbows for blood
to c...

Heritage

...The carpet was worn -  
The pattern thin in some places,
But it was a “good” rug,
A real original Oriental.
We had others, too, and a
Silver tea service, slightly tarnished, 
(Sterling, of cour...

Rebooting the World

...The Planet appeared behind the upholstery. 
Layers of ambiguous crises lie behind. 
Attractive slurs were mixed in with flowing clarity. 
A new dawn has been anticipated by humankin...

My Car Repair Bill

...Dear car repair man received your bill of Friday last
Need I say when I read the sum it really made me gasp

The price of parts and hoses made up less than half
While the labour that you charged ...

My Favorite Scent

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My favorite scent of them all by far
is that from the inside of a mint condition car.
Oh, the fragrance from that brand new upholstery!
To me, the aroma is so heavenly!
It's too bad tha...

Monoku Monday - Mar 2021

..."Holy Humor"    Posted 1 Mar 2021

if you need an ark to save two of each animal      i Noah guy

creating Eve was the first known example      of splitting the Adam

fa...

Junk Car

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Behind the fence in somebody's vacant lot,
stands an old automobile that has been left to rot.
The metallic body is falling apart with rust,
while the upholstery reeks with mold and must...

Bubble Gum

...We are happy about the music,
a Mozart serenade that is not too dangerously deep.
Somewhere in the night
angels are falling off their nightmares,
black horse escaping on an ebbing tide.

Mozart...

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