Wardrobes Poems

Premium MemberShip of Dreams

...The ship of dreams
Opulent surroundings
Fancy bed linens
Luxurious dinner plates and tablecloths
Gleaming virginal utensils
Dazzling crystal chandeliers
Polished walnut woodwork
Gold gilded fi...
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Categories: wardrobes, history,
Form: Free verse

UNDERNEATH THE SOUL

...Have you ever cleared your closet?
Relationships are like wardrobes
They need to be reviewed 
Have you ever packed your bags?
A heart is like a storage box
It needs to be sorted
That lingering ...
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Categories: wardrobes, adventure, africa, change, character,
Form: Free verse


Jack 99

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Nervousness of standing on the doorstep
Compromise, standing just inside
Despite invitation, I politely insisted that the evening ended there
Over days, weeks, months then years
Things develope...
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Categories: wardrobes, fantasy, life, passion, perspective,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTRISTICH PARALLEL the FORM

...TRISTICH IS A PARALLEL VERSE(Inspired by Hebrew Biblical parallels) it comprises  L1 theme L2 ECHO of theme L3 Punchline/observation

Wardrobes, full of clothes,
crossstitch cluttered walls-
her ...
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Categories: wardrobes, poetry, word play,
Form: Didactic

Premium MemberChapter 69 -- Damian Delilah Mallory and Polly: Secret Places

...Aah Summer time. The house 
Was quiet. Dolly and Molly were 
The only ones awake and already 
Showered and dressed. Dolly said. 
"Woo I am ready for whatever."
Molly agreed saying, "Yeah, 
Sist...
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Categories: wardrobes, allusion, best friend, color,
Form: Alliteration


Premium MemberParallels the Form X 3

...Wardrobes, full of clothes,
crossstitch cluttered walls-
her shadow still clouds my mind

tears begin to fall.
emotion becomes a flood-
a cataract of regret flows

a realisation dawns,
fleet...
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Categories: wardrobes, poetry,
Form: Tristich

Premium MemberWhat We Wear

...What we wear
    How we look
  Our wardrobes plucked
    from the latest books  

  Fashion rules us
    Clothes hide who we are
  First make a few billion
    ~ Then dress bizarre...
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Categories: wardrobes, clothes, fashion, money,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHow Lady Learned At Last

...*** How Lady Learned at Last ***

For decades, Lady daydreamed, wanting a full closet,
A packed, complete fashionable style:
Shoes to hats, to crown the French Bob
Of shinny, brunnette tresses a...
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Categories: wardrobes, character, emotions, fashion, forgiveness,
Form: Narrative

Rural Ghosts

...The chirr of parched insect wings –
bible dust preaching
from long abandoned boots.

Baked into the sky
homesteads linger on the burnt stumps
of exhausted summers.

Dander creaks on dry porch...
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Categories: wardrobes, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe First of Many

...We sat beneath a night sky of graduated charcoals, blacks and interstellar blues. Fall’s begun its indispensable work, banishing the harsh sun, the creepy lanternflies and hot summer nights.

The s...
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Categories: wardrobes, anxiety, friendship, humor, school,
Form: Free verse

A Flogging Rain

...We carry small talk above our heads, ceilings drip clouds.
Nothing is put away.  Coats dangle over chairs in layers.
Drugged by spate and mizzle, denim droops, 
snagged over rummage
and the outst...
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Categories: wardrobes, poetry,
Form: Free verse

When It's Snowing

...I don’t like it when it’s snowing because I leave traces
so they know where I’m going and they chase me
they want to see whether I follow the light or the shadows
so I blind them, scratch their ey...
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Categories: wardrobes, character, winter,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWintertime

...Set to the tune of 'Edelweiss'  from The Sound of Music

Wintertime, wintertime
Evergreens don festive wardrobes

Ivory
Christmas Eves
Swirl in peppermint snowglobes

Magical mirrors of lake...
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Categories: wardrobes, holiday, nature, snow, song,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberBar Entry Code: Kw3

...knowing who wore warm
kilts where
was why knots were
wound wardrobes
knitted warmest when waistcoat
kind was
woven wool keeping watchmen
warriors waiting
kindly while watching washroom
kings...
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Categories: wardrobes, absence, drink, sick,
Form: Free verse

Guy Fawkes' Night

...Guy Fawkes' Night 

By the middle of October the piles are growing.
English weather fails to dampen
childhood enterprise.
Gangs traverse the streets in forage
To drag, on broken prams, a hoard,...
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Categories: wardrobes, autumn, childhood, death, fire,
Form: Free verse

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