Wearables Poems | Examples

 An uproar in the velvet boxes
    a tiny gray mouse in a tux
 popped out from the pocket 
     of a driver of trucks

 ‘Scandal’ played on the lips of 
     the snooty fashionables
 How dare that gauche driver appear
     in his greasy wash-and-wearables

 O, the shame of it all 
     as the mouse toured the wall
  When even a night at the opera
     features a mouse drawing catcalls

              Greater part
                      of
               my body,
                  
                   white
               of winter,
       
       hydrator of humus,
             
             sculptor
                   of 
               valleys,
           
              washer 
         of wearables,
                                                                                                                                                                    I
                   I
               Owe
               YOU

2. "When you are not fed love on a silver spoon, you learn to lick it off knives."
     Lauren Eden

shadows lurk from the painful past tempting to look back
there were struggles which only made stronger and stronger 
no sustenance on silver platter to relish from 
lacked shiny lustre on day-to-day wearables 
but mysteriously the lacking added strength to 
feelings of warrior no defeat without striving 
for the top no giving up without achieving goal
shadows reminded adversaries lost in battle 
no regret for a journey with ups and downs
ultimate win wiped out tumultuous odyssey

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