Best Decades Poems

My first ten years (or childhood), I'd say were pretty great.
although my confidence could easily deflate.
To be a teen - For this I could not wait!
I wanted a nice boyfriend and loved that first big date!
I learned a lot, like how to watch my weight.
On...

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I: in the 70s

At sixteen, looking through a magazine,
I came across the picture of a girl
whose character was Mary Ellen in
“The Waltons” show I watched on Thursday nights.
Her look was that of mine when I made up
my face and styled my hair a certain way.
It...

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Feet meander through  their slow walks
on  damp benches along the rotunda ...
an elderly pair grips the stem of their
parasol , inhaling the breath of dusky wisps,
as if the gray of their tresses 
holds the seams of hours watching 
this evening turn inky blue...

And...

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NOTE: I don't know if I did these right. This is for a contest started a long time ago that i believe closes out tonight. Each decade has its own title, and one of the titles has to be "Battle of the Sexes." These are...

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From Wisdom Born, Decades Fighting Fate's Cursed Hand

In youth, a young lad roars for much needed applause
in old age, wisely remains silent with just cause,
seeing the end near, some shed bitterest of tears
thinking such splashing supplications, angels hear;
whereas this old, callous world neither sees nor...

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 Two Decades In Afghanistan
Haiku
By: Miracle Man
8-28-2021

In call to duty,
Many gave some, some gave all.
Mission accomplished.
...

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"Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it." Psalm 127:1 of the King James Bible

 Behold me…
marked with awesome affectionate hues 
exuding family love
radiating bliss of eternal security bonding 
triumphantly prevailing midst smiles.

Recollect with me…
while exposing joy of home
along grateful...

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I kneel by the ash heap of my country,
pulling out the charred bones of laws
once tender with purpose. A womb,
a book, a vote—each gutted clean
by men in ties who grin as they light
the match, who quote scripture
as forests burn and children cry
in cages built from...

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I stood 
at the century-old gate 
of my high school Alma mater
on Sunday morn last summer;
Excited as if I had a date.

I saw 
people passing by; 
The old folks recalled me, 
Yes, they recalled me with glee.
And I humbly knew why. 


I gazed 
at the...

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I sometimes think,
 I lived my life with blinders on,
 wrapped up and self absorbed,
 so full of me.
I must have been oblivious to my surroundings,
  I recall things vague and unclear
  like a bystander, hearing but not really listening,
  seeing but...

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FIVE DECADES
It is yet dawn here!
Though the sun smiles glowingly
The souls set to toil
Like hypnotized spirit in deep laughter

It is yet dawn here!
The cloud had fermented
The earth arrogantly molested
Culminating a forced abortion

It is yet dawn here!
The journey had long began
The barns are of suckling
Counsels have...

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They had dreamed. They had gone so far with their dreams. Yet, so deprived they 
lived.
Like them, I have become a denizen of the desert, ever since I laid my eyes on 
you.
Like them, lovers of a hundred decades ago, I was destined to wake...

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Turning to the fourth decade of life is 
A milestone in which you had reached the
Maturity to cope with the buffetings that life
Presents as an awe enigma waiting to be
Resolved and approved to pass with high honors









1-22-2016
For Forty Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Silent One
Third Place...

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In Time with Autumn
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Autumn rushed ahead  
without me,
Leaving me to chase 
After its perfect 
   violet skylight.
My running feet crack
The silence of 
   the earlier dusk, with
My mashing of
    the dry death
Of the discarded 
Brown and golden...

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CIRCLE OF LOVE 


Time in Space
Moments and Seconds
all in a row
Days and nights
all in a row
Years, decades, centuries
Milleniums
all in a row
Side by Side
calm eternity
Sparkling joy
quiet Wisdom
all in a row

Waiting for bait
for dusty flies...
lucky geckos
for humans looking 
for Love
Watching souls
dancing in a circle
around a never ending...

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