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Best Few Short Years Poems

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Waste
Nature in it’s utmost,
has no wont of haste.
Time has little meaning,
and there is no waste.

One year or a million,
matters not at all,
everything that lives,
eventually will...

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Categories: few short years, environment,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Never To Be Forgotten
For you, the first to teach me poetry,
		I wrote a little poem at age nine.
		I don't remember writing any more
		till I had you for English...

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Categories: few short years, appreciation, education, student, teacher,
Form: Blank verse
Friends of Wattle Creek
For many years, the creek, ran passed as a drain,
Polluted and unloved; a poisoned murky vein.
A favoured dumping place, for household unwanted things -
out of...

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Categories: few short years, environment, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hector

He claimed the highest perch
in the breeding loft and was, by far,
the biggest pigeon in the flock.
I named him Hector.
A thick, puffed up ball
of red...

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Categories: few short years, bird, humor, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Pocket Watch
Technological age.
Advancement of advancement,
Digital acceleration unlimited.

Gifted and pocketed,
This watch,
Dull dark silver,
True and tested mechanic,
Short and sturdy chain,
Analogue accuracy.

It fits comfortably in my jeans pocket,
Ages alongside...

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Categories: few short years, loss, love, time, me,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Forgotten
No name appears on my stone
there are no flowers strewn
grasses grows knee high
full of thorny brambles

How did this come to pass
that so soon I am...

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Categories: few short years, death, nostalgia, philosophy,
Form: Epitaph
Premium Member Falling Into Darkness
Suddenly, he found himself floating through the air.
He saw no light and heard no sound, just darkness everywhere.
Trying to remember the place where he had...

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Categories: few short years, death, fear, imagination, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Precious Little Zack
Precious little Zack
Sweet, innocent and pure
Went through this lifetime
For only a few short years

I missed the opportunity of
His last years of development
But my memories stay...

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Categories: few short years, death, sympathy
Form: Narrative
Isn'T Light Blue the Throat Chakra?
melodic open
blue throat chakra overflow
soft and kind words of 

too much wisdom from 
lil child of a few short years
prophetic and calm

sweet lines of peace...

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Categories: few short years,
Form: Haiku
Nathan Reide

My dearest Nathan Reide 
4 years on, still my heart bleeds 
I'm always here with thoughts of you
with a glimmer of clarity I catch myself...

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Categories: few short years, bereavement, death of a
Form: Elegy
Butterfly and Life
Life is a charming word
it ends at an unknown time
and has a smaller dimension than is supposed
what difference is there between us
except the sorrows we...

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Categories: few short years, life
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Futuristic Christmas
A New King?
The future Ebenezer Scrooge will be clever and unkind, but not that bright. Will he try to rule as king of kings, and...

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Categories: few short years, celebration, childhood, christmas, december,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Toilet
When all goes down the toilet and you lose your life’s work
And you’re told to reinvent yourself, what’s wrong with you, you jerk?
Oh sure, I...

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Categories: few short years, change, feelings, growth, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
The Furry Love Poem
What would I do without my precious furry friends,
Part mischeif but all blessing and faithful to the end,
You look at me with eyes of love,
You...

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Categories: few short years, animals, pets,
Form: I do not know?
Sweet Erika
Sweet Erika I miss not seeing you,
as often as I use to.

I may not tell you how much
I love you, like I use to.

You are...

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Categories: few short years, devotion, familymay, , cute,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs