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Button Down Poems - Poems about Button Down

Hound in a Button-Down
...There come those moments when men cease to be men And turn into dogs. Dogs that bite and dogs that whine; Dogs that lay Panting On top of you And infect you with their spilling saliva Dulle......

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Categories: button down, abuse, dark, desire, extended
Form: Free verse
Life’s Repetition of rinse and repeat:
...Life’s Repetition of rinse and repeat: Saga, the odyssey lies And deceit. Juliet’s drowning upon daggers blade in Response to a Romeo’s lethal swallow. The need be not the chasing down of se......

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Categories: button down, confusion,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Retirement and Bird
...A bird in a button-down shirt and a vest joined me for coffee, and sadly confessed,  pecking distractedly at a cinnamon roll, his manner affectingly droll. What he said, as I sat on my park ben......

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Categories: button down, bird, retirement, silly, work,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Look in My Closet
... Look in my closet and what will you see? First is the shoe holder hung on the side of its door. It holds shoes sometimes not matched up and some I rarely wore! Tightly pressed together are m......

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Categories: button down, clothes,
Form: List
Premium Member I'm All That and an Appreciative Hat
...I'm just an old-fashioned, flannel lumberjack shirt. My father was some overalls, a farmer of dirt. I'm a worn out and holey pair of cotton socks, An unwanted sweater, packed away in a box. My ......

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Categories: button down, age, clothes, father, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Off the Button
...Within the hurricane report, Of which I just heard snatches, A person on the radio said, “Button down the hatches!” So many people get things wrong When idioms are used And it is understandab......

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Categories: button down, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Button Down Shirt
...the button down shirt crisply pressed and impressive - backwards, inside-out......

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Categories: button down, imagery,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Lasting Forever
...Lasting Forever David J Walker On the first morning After a lifetime of making a living I can only think of leaving the Army And how empty I felt left and on my own at 21 Th......

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Categories: button down, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
Charles Bukowski Road Not Taken
...While reading Charles Bukowski poetry? On the metro ride home? Listening to Buddha bar music? On my oh too hip iPod? I begin to see myself as I was? Over 30 years ago when I was merely a......

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Categories: button down, absence, adventure, allusion, america,
Form: Free verse
You Dress You
...The society has dictated us enough. What a man should wear and what a woman can How to dress and how one can’t “That is not how girls dress!” Is the society’s favourite stand. “Boys don’t wear......

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Categories: button down, appreciation, confidence, identity, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fashion In My Family
...My grandparents lived on farms – both sides of my family. My mother’s parents and my father’s parents. Overalls and button down shirts with pockets Work boots for grandpas Except my single gran......

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Categories: button down, family, fashion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dwn Git N Down At the Dance
...DWN GIT n DOWN at the DANCE - Button down, Boogie down. Velvet lime green bell bottom pants, lookN mean; Jackson 5, singing Dancing Machine; ~ Eddie Kendrick’s Boogie d......

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Categories: button down, adventure, analogy, dance, school,
Form: Rhyme
No Need To Shout
...No Need to shout – As I have Ears Up and down In and out Is the place to have a shout So just make sure You point your mouth Before you let it, all spout out But it’s no good shouting if......

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Categories: button down, meaningful, metaphor, trust, truth,
Form: Free verse
My Sunshine
...Only the heavens know what she was crafted from but right here right now it did not matter She is the only thing I see it is as if I am really seeing her for the first time in all her beauty Her ......

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Categories: button down, beautiful, flower, happiness, magic,
Form: Free verse
To Wake Me Up
...To wake me up Is easier said than done. It begins with a sweet song Played on the small speaker Of my iPhone. I shut it off and roll over. Still asleep. Ten minutes later, My digital alar......

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Categories: button down, love, morning,
Form: Ballad

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