Marriage Age Poems

When I was growing up
I was so struck by the beauties
I Saw on TV and in magazines
I became obsessed with thinking about them
One day I'll...

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Back approximately half my life ago
dissociative disorder 
if qualified to self diagnose 
mein kampf psychological state...

I lacked emotions where others concerned.

That refrain replayed itself,
when wife...

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My heart will always be expecting good times 
many hearts expect good times
their future lies in expectation of positive futures
there is no substance to save...

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From learning the abc’s, to count from 1 to 3 your favorite uncle singing the twelve days of Christmas, the particular line a partridge in...

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These once nimble fingers,
pinned diapers on your behind.
Swatted the misbehaving toddler,
when you got out of line.

Held you the first day of school,
applauded loudly as the...

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You wrap yourself 
in the feather boa fantasy of his dreams
sinuous you; X-rated and never sated
dancing to rock ‘n roll— 80’s dated

welcome to the conjugal...

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I'd chosen you as my flunky -
Your hair - Neanderthal red,
You'd hurry towards my shrill calling,
De-cloth me and roll me to bed.

'Textured', you woo-ed, 'mild...

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Hello and handshakes,
now old hat,
that brief hello,
wiggling through teeth.....

a stiff aura
still making breakfast,
news blabbing
from the old TV,

touching is only
on a big screen,
a carbon copy
of middle...

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Dancing in the water to tunes of distant memories.
The times we’ve had together that only belong to you and me.
Running into the sunset, we weren’t...

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Do they celebrate birthdays in heaven?
Or do they even care anymore?
Are there  birthday cakes handed out at the pearly gates?
Do the angels know the...

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A furtive glance
Slow approach
A hand extended
To dance
An ever-familiar dance
Gnarled knuckles caressing
The swaying of endless memories
A soft moon 
Glistening in curled grey
A whispering of promises
Repeated
Kept
Forever
as the...

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Seasons change, love remains; my heart stays soft.
In marital bond, your touch soothes the hard.
Though less gentle fondness falls from your mouth.

Through gale storms and...

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Why flowers in the garden that once
Lively and limpid, withers by the day.
Why relationships that were once
Beautiful turns ugly by the day.
So called companions,who in...

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I asked you this morning how you felt
though I already knew the answer
You smiled and gave me eggs and sausage
I did not need to ask...

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Incomplete metamorphosis of distilled adolescent...

therefore he characterizes himself as an anomaly...any idea why?

Mortified, petrified, stultified, et cetera sheltered, 
and mortally wounded prepubescent,

I consider myself
analogously buttressed,...

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