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Best Behind The Times Poems

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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...

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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
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...

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Categories: behind the times, america, corruption, patriotic,
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...

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Categories: behind the times, art
Form: Prose 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...

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



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...

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

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Categories: behind the times, art, birthday, celebration, friendship,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Will the Real Truth Stand Up
WILL THE REAL TRUTH PLEASE STAND UP

With Canaanites and the Jews both guilty of colonialism
Both following the evil god Ba’al practising his Satanism

Black became white,...

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Categories: behind the times, betrayal, conflict, confusion, crazy,
Form: Couplet
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...

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Categories: behind the times, courage,
Form: Acrostic
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...

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Categories: behind the times, 12th grade, 1st grade,
Form: Free verse
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;...

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Categories: behind the times, car, conflict, humorous,
Form: Couplet
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...

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Categories: behind the times, beautiful, celebrity, encouraging, inspirational,
Form: I do not know?
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...

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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...

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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...

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Categories: behind the times, creation, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things