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Premium Member Notebook
I found a notebook in blowing trash
left by an elder moving away.
Did she not want to keep it, I asked
Won't fit, one room, is all she would say.

She was bidding farewell to her home
of sixty-five years: she was too old
to live among ghosts she said...

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© Ann Peck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: behind the times, art, books, loneliness, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Village Gazette
Nor ahead of 

Nor behind the times ~

  The bell-tower floats her chimes...

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Categories: behind the times, beauty, life, sound,
Form: Rhyme
Yo,Mama
being still,makes me ill.the feel i get when girls are wet and wild,is ooh child,things are gonna get easier.the theme park crossed my mind.so did your behind.your behind the times if you think im perverted.we worried?the poet laureate thing,its a total mess,and unblessed.we confess,lest,we take...

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Categories: behind the times, art
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Fifth Season
There is a fifth season as real as rain.
It storms the earth with rash incivility.
What time has held as decent and sane,
Its loud voices now disown acceptability.

Putting hand on heart as the flag passes by
Is damning proof you're behind the times.
And having faith in God...

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Categories: behind the times, america, corruption, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
Last Night I Had An American Dream
Oh, there's lots of talk about the sad end
Of what we call the American dream;
About the fast decline of our morals
And that we're not all we once were or seem.

Yes, the enemy is outside and in
And most are betting that we're about through;
It seems religion...

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© Glen Enloe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: behind the times, culture, political,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Behind
Behind the times

My heart was looking for a place

Behind homelands

My soul was looking for safety

Behind sorrows

My tears were looking for a smile

And behind your heart

I was looking for my self......

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Categories: behind the times, girlfriend, love, relationship, wife,
Form: Free verse



Genethliac
Carpe diem? sweet, yet meet?… whimsical? smart? how do I start?…
On a birthday, it’s worth saying something special from the heart.

While I’ve penned all kinds of rhymes— ahead, behind the times, a range—
Some in verse that’s terse, some florid, others horrid, stanzas strange…

Here are couplets...

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Categories: behind the times, art, birthday, celebration, friendship,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Bridge Over Troubled Water
If time is turning unpropitious,
You shouldn't hesitate a minute,
Need not ponder a moment,
A distance of a courtesy call,
Friend will stand by you for sure !

I'm in the same waters as you,
Sailing in the parallel boat as you do,
Right or at times left waves might slow...

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Categories: behind the times, courage,
Form: Acrostic
Creating Chimeras
If a book has footnotes, though it is fiction,

How do you classify it?

Historical fiction has made some inroads

To this chimera crossroads

But science fiction

Ironically, is behind the times

I’ve kept writing vigils like Virgil.

I muse ‘neath the stellar stars at night, I sure hope you do, too.

Perhaps...

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Categories: behind the times, beautiful, celebrity, encouraging, inspirational,
Form:
Premium Member A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Market
A funny thing happened on the way to the market
I arrived in my Porsche, there was no where to park it
So I circled the village; and parked it in a side road
When I returned an hour later, my car was being towed!
I asked the traffic...

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Categories: behind the times, car, conflict, humorous,
Form: Couplet
A Teacher
I am a teacher

Eager beaver

Full of beans

I build bridges

And burn the candle at both ends

I am a teacher

Cap in hand

Full of the milk of human kindness

I fight tooth and nail

To make my pupils see reason

I am a teacher

As hard as nails

Face like thunder

I resent cheap...

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Categories: behind the times, 12th grade, 1st grade,
Form: Free verse
Kaleidoscope
I'm going back to the beginning of the ending in everything. Like the past kaliedascoping  inside a mind wired with colorful glimpses hiding behind reflective times. I must reconcile the spinning and twitching of memories flying by, by balancing out my time in this...

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Categories: behind the times, abortion, birth, dark, death,
Form: Narrative
Am I Not An American
Am I not An American?

I listen to the news
I hear all the political views
The analysts give numbers and statistics
This is all really, quite fantastic
They don’t even ask me
I don’t matter personally
I am just a statistic it seems
Insignificant in the larger scheme
I just don’t understand
Why do...

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© Linda Barr  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: behind the times, introspection, people, philosophy, political,
Form: Verse
The World Is Not My Home
As i pass thro
Some times
In a hurry
Or at  times ease
I chance to glance 
Behind at times
At times above 
And sometimes below
I leave the ticks 
&  the tocks as i glance behind..
I dont trample below my present..as i look down..
And i glide to see...

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Categories: behind the times, creation, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Is Time
Time is elusive
  Time flies - Tempus fugit
    Where'd the time go?

Time is in short supply
  There's not enough time
    You're out of time

Time is epochal
  Once upon a time
    The time has...

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Categories: behind the times, perspective, time,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry