Life Age Poems

You don't seem to understand
The truth I clutch in my hands
I never wanted to hurt you
I just wanted to show my virtue
It's the only thing...

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Because I could not escape from Life –  
It rudely dragged me forth –  
The chaos swirled, consuming all –  
And Oblivion,...

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Every family has them
These unsettling times these misunderstandings
Times when many things come into play
In most cases these wee spats are soon over and forgotten
But sometimes...

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Little things turn big and now
Incredible memories spin round and round. 
Flying dreams are sometimes too quick to chase
Even though its me on the pilot’s...

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a stroll …

just a stroll … like any other
numberless now, the times this path
had taken her to the wood -
the dark, deep wood where her
memories...

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In the dimly lit corners of her existence,
She lingered, a ghost in the midst of persistence.
From the womb, she was marked, a black sheep born,
Destined...

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I am becoming.

I am shedding skin to
Divest.

I am developing.

I am no longer preparing
For something. 

I am depending on myself
To know when it's time
To cut the...

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The container in my chest holds water not blood-
Water of the kin and kind.
But I bottle it up scared instead of sprinkling the holy water...

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Age is over rated
I went from cute and cuddly
To terribly two
In the flip of a calendar
From being inquisitive
To being nosey
From pre-teen
To A TEENAGER
Meandered
Through the military
Into...

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Elderness

(Mainly.)

Make
Time
Fly!

Or...

Don't have too much fun.

So? ...or Too?

Too/So?

Don't have SO much FUN?!

What a WASTE
Of TIME.

Thanks.

-Gray Squirrel

05-03-2024...

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Loretta Devil
Loretta Devil
She thinks she's queen of the hill
When she's hitting that herb at will
The smack of her lips, the glaze in her stare
All the...

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I FELL ONE NIGHT, WELL IT WAS DARK!
THEN WOUND MY WAY INTO A PARK
IT'S PEOPLED BUT WITH KANGAROOS
WHO HAVE LOST ONE OR MORE OF SHOES

...

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Eminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpation...

Maternal grandfather of mine
long since passed among the living;
He left his Motherland 
before onset of Holodomor,
a policy of the Soviet Union...

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Your decree has expired
You used to force me since I was a teen student
You kept forcing me during 16 years of flying
You ordered me to...

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Double pain in my heart
The sad I feel tears me apart
From my our family I had to band my brother 
That would of killed our...

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