The Shirt

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    Because every girl's crazy about a sharp dressed man -zztop

    The Shirt

    The Shirt

     

    I am drawn towards fine lines

    By an unknown equation of gravitation

    As if some Divinely drafted plan contrived:

     

                A wordless pause sewn

                Into an architecturally correct

                Conversation

     

                A Whisper Stitched

                By laughter

                To a cuff linked comment

     

                The blank page of a shoulder seam

                Bent to lean on

                The suble care constructed

                Of that which resides inside the hollowness

     

                The tucked tales of soap and skin alchemy

                The tailored marks

                Of a masculine olfactory pheromone

     

                A dry, clean white uncluttered cotton

                Falling lightly

                Starched and casually kept

     

    Resting just right like:

     

                A still and refined quiet room

                Wrapped in a loud world

                That is tattered and torn

                Piercing tattoos of screaming statement,

                Baggy trend and cool kitsch chaos

     

    A touch

     

                The hot iron brand of Gentle Man

     

    Which presses smooth

    All wrinkles of wit and worry

    With the worn order

    Of dusted ledge and righted frame

     

    Dressed design's refined reflection

    A classic style which bears no name.

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    Hampton commented on The Shirt

    02-24-2011

    This poem and the other works of yours that I've read suggest that you are indeed a poet and not just a writer of poems.

    shallenemcgrath

    02/24/2011

    Given the gift of Blarney -honorary of course!

    train64 commented on The Shirt

    02-02-2011

    I revisited Shirt because it is so well done and a captivating read. Affectionately yours, a sharp dressed man -

    ClearlySays commented on The Shirt

    01-29-2011

    I've never heard such an ordinary thing painted out so artfully. Your structure was very appealing to the eye, and encouraged me to pause and reflect on your writings.

    shallenemcgrath

    01/29/2011

    Thank you clearly... You should read a good translations of Pablo Neruda, if you like this. He did some odes to ordinary things.

    GUSTY commented on The Shirt

    01-27-2011

    OH DEAR, I LOVE THIS WORK OF YOURS COS IT'S ONE OF THE BEST DESCRIPTIVE POEMS I'VE EVER READ!!! BRAVO!

    shallenemcgrath

    01/27/2011

    I'm really glad that you liked it gusty. :-)

    FranzJ commented on The Shirt

    01-26-2011

    I did not know a shirt had all of that - I also like the ZZTop referense

    shallenemcgrath

    01/26/2011

    Men hate dressing up- but when they do, most women can't resist.

    A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

    Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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