Short Straps Poems

Crusty tears long dried
Leather arm straps to my side….
Chemically fried...

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gavel's final raps....
arms bound with brown leather straps
victim’s loved one claps...

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Sealing eyes of sky,
       Descend upon straps of light,
Dusk…now dreams the night......

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vestige of summer
suntan lines
fake spaghetti straps



AP: 1st place 2021

Posted on July 19, 2018...

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Why write meaningful poetry,
With pictures of bras below it?
Disgusting!
Next comes jock straps?
This poet just knows it.

10/19/2020
Opus # 5...

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Straps around his waist,
And shining armour loosened.
Brittle backbone hurts.
Notepad, pen: poetry waits,
Fantasy deletes all pain...

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Her bra straps were a mite too tight
Her breasts looked like they had a fight
He kissed them better
Found a French letter
And did his best to make things right...

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There once was a Chick from the sea
whose two buxom breasts were set free.
Twin seaweed straps snapped
as thunder clouds clapped
and the sailors drown ecstatically....

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spokes of bike reeling
slow motion...mind rewinding
‘remember helmet’


straps it tight under his chin
premonition frightens him

1/27/2018...

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Wearing just mask, gloves and a Yankees cap
The POTUS went shopping, caused quite a flap
   Bought himself a small gift
   Ever practicing thrift ~
A teeny-weeny bikini, sans straps...

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we're wading through 
a storm:

hate
wickedness

It straps on a bomb
It wields a knife

it knows no
race or colour

and still London
rises

my city of colours
my city of friendship...

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glamorous
amorous
in high heels
and party dress
flouncing florals
and chiffon
bare back
spaghetti straps
under moonglow
stars above
divinely fabulous 



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on June 6, 2019...

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Sam’s butterfly sleeves, in pastel hurry,
Gently billow like seagulls over feet.
Indulgent, salted drops of sea, so sweet.
Tan sand across her sandal straps, run free.

7/23/2021
Caren Krutsinger’s Flair and Fun Quatrain
ABBA...

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STRIPTEASE

private invitation
on backyard veranda
sweet purple wine
straps dangle
she’s swaddled
in sensuous mystery

his breath in striptease
his eyes overwhelmed
he calmly sips his wine
of slow approach
this marriage he owns

3/1/2018...

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no name poem
because 
that is all I can afford

when you are poor
life conspires
to keep you there

“pull up your boot straps”
What boots?

there is a price on every thing
except faith, that’s free
lots of it floatin’ around

can you tell me 
where I can put it?...

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I.

Ta da, ta da, flip,

like cards in bicycle spokes,

percussive shoe, flop...



II.

Long spaghetti straps,

full circle twirly skirted,

sundress in warm breeze.



III.

Morning sand dune climb,

woven basket, cheese, red wine,

noon apéritif. 


-Edlynn Nau
©April 17, 2019...

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WHOA!!!
I say loudly
As she passed me by
Girl,
You look like Marilyn Monroe
Glamorous through my eyes
Her shirt was black
With spaghetti straps
And a white tee underneath
Tight beige pants
Turning heads, causing cramps
I hear someone grinding teeth

OH, 
That's me!!!!!


Jared Pickett......09'...

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Booties on tiny feet
                                                           
Skipping in new white tennies

Wobbling in first high heels

Gliding in wedding slippers
                         
Chasing kids in sensible flats

Arthritic fingers and velcro straps

...   No shoes needed in the after- life...

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My purse is sheer seventies, with sassy swinging fringe.
Cut from flowered leather straps – pink and yellow on white leather.
I feel seventeen when I wear it.
Listen to seventies music – Beach Boys, Beatles, Mama Cass. 
I am sassy too, driving over ninety miles an hour now.
Putting the pedal to the metal. 
Getting my groove on.
Uh-oh.
Watch me run from the Fuzz!...

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Grasp the anguish, of the dank do-

Gooder, bursting across

The local track.  Kids bored silly

Outside the school, sneer as

She slips past.  The brassy broad clings

In the wind to her hat,

As shoulder straps preclude her sack

From sinking, she is an-

chored by her leather bag, the last

Treasure she can hold fast.

Since the rain washed away the mirth

Of the carnival day....

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I untied the straps of my mysteries,
I undid the braids of my misfortunes,
I started playing my forgotten song...
I tied and knotted the bag of sorrows,
I revived the memories of the adventures,
I found the keys to my portals,
I ignited my holy lights...
i burned in a strong fire
my anxieties,
I gathered my faces from the mirrors,
I stripped myself of all worst omens,
and ran to live a novel life!...

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I am different,
In many ways,
Clothes,
Thoughts,
Drawings,
Friends,
My clothes are different,
In many ways,
Black,
Chains,
Straps,
Baggy,
My thoughts are different,
In many ways,
Drugs,
Sex,
Suicide,
Murder,
My drawings are different,
In many ways,
Dark,
Depressing,
Sad,
Twisted,
My friends are different,
In many ways,
Preps,
Jocks,
Goths,
Nonsocial,
	I am me.
				I am different....

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Zippers and Velcro and snaps and straps
nylon loops are found everywhere
pockets there are of every size
pockets in pockets can be found

flags of black hang upside down
holding meanings that are not found
over shoulders diagonally hung
made to fit over either one

covered with tools of every kind
stuck in loops and on Velcro  hung
swinging on straps as they walk
ringing softly with tinkling sounds...

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~Be Dazzling~

Who wants to grow old?
Shivering alone, in the cold,
Beneath an old oak tree?
Not my bag of tea.
Refusing to age, so ungracefully,

Don shoes, gold,with straps,
A beautiful magenta dress, perhaps?
Sparkling jade necklaces that glitter.
Auburn tresses that equally shimmer.
Setting a man's soul...aquiver!

Panagiota Romios
4/5/2019

10 lines, 5 words, Rhyme Iii Contest
Sponsor: Laura Loo...

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a dizain

Admire her casting, lines of silky floss;
survey as artist drafts her masterpiece.
Enclosing space invisibly across,
then single-handedly, she will increase
the center parts to form unseen valise.
A purse of unsuspected, vicious taint -
its straps in hand, she naps - a wily feint.
Artistic beauty flows, but will soon ebb,
when tender insects clutter her restraint.
Artiste awakes to wealth within her web.

Nov. 17, 2010...

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