Best Fifty Four Poems

I remember you
Say casts feel like huge cream puffs
devouring your leg...

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Two-Fifty-Four
©2012 C. Brent Cloyd

I bought a new scale at the Wal-Mart store.
Made it secure and level on the floor.
I took a breath, then stepped on.
The...

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I have spent,
              a lifetime,
       ...

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TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE

I’m giving up, can’t take no more, I’ve reached the final straw,
How do you find a flamin’ job when you’ve turned...

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A solitary thought formed in my mind
Way back in nineteen hundred fifty four
I laughed as it made things become so clear -
Why,I asked, have I...

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Remote controls are funny things
Then, maybe it’s just me
I wave it around for hours 
But, still can’t get channel three
It will always find the menu
For...

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There's nothing we can do, the doctor said!
     It was December, nineteen-seventy.
At once, those words exploded in my head
  ...

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a bee
invaded our car in
nineteen fifty four
while we were driving
to the jersey shore
flew in my open back window
of our two tone ford custom
pea green top...

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On a blustery sunny Thursday
In December of fifty-four
We stood before a preacher
To pledge our love forever more

We didn't have a tux or gown
A suit and...

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I AM AFRICA
I am a mother not a murderer
Patronage of numerous natural resources
Filled with beautiful creatures are my tropical
My heritage, adorned with glorious cultures
In the...

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Mavis was a party girl but a boor

   She's not welcome at parties anymore

      She causes people to...

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I know a lot of you will think 
that a word like ‘Shag’ is a terrible thing to use.
But, in my life, my world, if...

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It was the fall of fifty-four
and “cool” was the in thing.
I was a senior in high school
and had just moved 
to Camden High.  
I...

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On the galley I stood. I could see, a shadowy figure,
wearing a black dress and a hood.
 
 It’s stories I have heard. Legends of...

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I remember all of the places,
where we use to be!
But, things are really different now,
because, there's only me!

Together, we had endless fun.
We were suited to...

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