Button Down Poems - Poems about Button Down

... Written: April 14, 2025 for contest sponsored by Brian Strand ****************** The subject matter of this poem explores themes of transience, intersection of life and death, ......

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...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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...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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...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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... 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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...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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...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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...the button down shirt crisply pressed and impressive - backwards, inside-out......

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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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