Best First Year Poems

My Poetry Birthday...1/24/2019
Today is..................1/24/2020

I never once dreamt, that in one year, I would have 
written 1,070 poems.
And no, they are not one-liners, heaven forbid!

I only...

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a pair of blue ****
inspecting new nesting box
spring is in the air

I know haiku don't have titles... but I couldn't resist!

My nesting box was made...

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"You really wanna know? Cause I'll tell ya if you really wanna know. You'll be thinkin' I'm crazy before I'm done, but I'll tell ya......

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There was a plantation of fir trees
for some unknown reason, most of them
were three to four years old but one,
it was only in its first...

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Oh Halloween babe
born under October's moon
weave with forlornment
your bewitching adornment
of a harvest leaf festoon.

Faces in pumpkins
awake memories of when
the children were young;
and "Trick-or-Treat!" rung
the holiday...

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I have a wooden cedar box
Filled with precious things
Most of no value to you
But joy to me it brings

A copper penny, 1961
The year I was...

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Fond memories of Halloween as a child,
and times spent with my own children 
have me feeling nostalgic today. 
I recall the excitement felt as the...

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Hot August, 1974, I was back for my second year at college,
having just settled into a new place at Anita Apartments,
right next to the guys’...

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There’s an empty space at the table
I have a ready meal for one
It’s the first year without you
I can’t prepare a meal
Now I’m on my...

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I lay awake in that dark hour and was reflecting on my life
From all the travelling I had done to the breakup with my wife
I...

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Silly thoughts are a 
mans best friend
How they embarrass 
themself without end
Falling all over 
themself you see
Leave us all laughing 
with glee
Foolish at times how...

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Shaking in trembles, tremor within. 
A delicate pivot, shifts in separation.
Consolation comforts, the loss of win.
My first year of divorce, set in liberation. 

Bushwhacked, travelling...

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Roughnecking in Texas was a bachelor's life
Social by nature, not looking for a wife
A chance encounter, at a stop sign was she
Eyes kissed, hearts danced,...

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Kindness is smile
Kindness is helping hand
Kindness is encouraging words
Kindness is glue that bind us

First year in America
I had a teacher in high school
Miss Rouelle was...

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A tribute to Hollywood Squares
   Q and A changed a little somtimes to rhyme

If you decide to pet a dog 
Everyone knows it'll...

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