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At This Stage Poems - Poems about At This Stage

Premium MemberColours Prime

...I live my life through colours prime
through colours, colours, colours prime.
Can change their shades at any time
can change them as I age.

Beginning with the whitest page
the whitest, whitest...
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Categories: at this stage, age, blue, color, red,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFor the Story: If I Were Petty - Chapter One

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I'd steal it back—
my poem that she posted as her own.

I'd name her plainly, demand 
a public apology— 
an admission of hypocrisy 
from the one who keeps her hands clean, 
grins like a simp...
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Categories: at this stage, conflict, remember, writing,
Form: Free verse



Yours truly like most every hominid linkedin

...Yours truly like most every hominid linkedin...

to genus and species of *****sapiens,
(who trod across oblate spheroid
since time immemorial
as well as other simians -
classed as naked apes -
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Categories: at this stage, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMake It Make Sense

...Seems like the country is in a freefall
Will reasonable people answer the call
Corruptible actions moving through the twilight zone
No way this would be acceptable, if only we’d known

The daily...
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Categories: at this stage, betrayal, change,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberEtched in Stone

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He weeps while carving out her form
From memories of long days past.
Their life was like a raging storm
In every weather, so steadfast.

Together they had spent their lives
Happy, carefree, n...
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Categories: at this stage, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberWATCH OUT LITTLE EARS ABOUT

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My son, I love very much, so strict with me,
No name or photo of my little gem, there be,
My granddaughter, two years, January first,
My pride, my love, heart to burst,
But what I heard made ...
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Categories: at this stage, grandchild,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberSome Final Thoughts for 2024

...It has occurred to me that as I grow older and use my life experiences more, everything means more than it did before. So, here I am, at the end of another year soliloquizing about myself, studying m...
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Categories: at this stage, age, appreciation, introspection, philosophy,
Form: Prose

Premium MemberSomewhere On Foot Part One

...I peered deeply into a water trickling  dyke clustered by pale blue and green peebles.
“Oh dear I sometimes dig too deep or maybe not diffidently.
Damon Deep thinker, lost in thought type.”
There ...
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Categories: at this stage, beautiful, character, city, deep,
Form: Prose

Premium MemberFull Circle

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I wonder what it'll take to go full circle
and find my way back home with You?
Although I might be as slow as a turtle
Your love will guide me when I'm true.

I’ll finish up then as I ...
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Categories: at this stage, anxiety, destiny, endurance, god,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberEternal Mystery

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     Mystic Mystery till  beyond human perception, Yet to be solved  !
        Oblivious. question  ' Who are we ?‘  'Where do we come from ? ' 'Where will  we go ?'
                   It's a bli...
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Categories: at this stage, mystery,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberAn Empty Page

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     An Empty Page- Free Verse

 Empty thoughts  loiter in his mind
 As  new words he tries to find
 But shackled by an absent muse
 No words come forth for him to choose

 His wizened face ...
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Categories: at this stage, muse, poetry,
Form: Free verse

I COULDN'T TALK ABOUT IT SO I WROTE A POEM

...I COULDN’T TALK ABOUT IT SO I WROTE A POEM

For months I had worshipped her;
But only from afar.
A girl with that star-quality
Would not look twice at me.
I’d watched her acros...
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Categories: at this stage, love,
Form: Free verse

Quietly Watching

...I’m just quietly sitting watching 
Through a younger man’s eyes.
You wouldn’t know if you looked
For my brain’s there in disguise.
It’s wearing the body of one
Who’s of a much greater age,
Tryi...
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Categories: at this stage, age, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Membervespertine

...dusk settles on an Anglican Shrub
vespertine is downy down upon the vertical horizon
spring like frost is unraveling
toward a sunset on its late afternoon decline

at this stage of early-black t...
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Categories: at this stage, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Maturity

...They stripped away my former self,
Reduced me to a mere shadow, for "maturity."
Before and after, I remained the same,
But different personas emerged, all in the name of "maturity."

No more col...
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Categories: at this stage, change,
Form: Free verse

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