Best Forty Poems

Visited you today
as the sun set in the horizon…

the orange tinged carnations 
were a perfect complement 
for the skies
and for you… 
orange and blue
always remind me of you

the winds softly blew
and I just sat there
staring at the grass,
well more at your name really…

hardly believing
what I...

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I am a narcoleptic,
I sleep at any time,
no doubt I’ll drop off frequently
before I end this ………………………………rhyme.

It can be quite embarrassing,
between just me and you,
in the bank the other day
I dozed off in the queue.
As if that wasn’t bad enough
I let out quite a snore,
a...

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            This life is a play,
It is a long journey;
      My dreams the pretty flowers,
Like wind blown sweet gems.
          ...

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Face all of your faults, failures and fears.

Once you do you'll have reason for cheers.

Rid yourself of handcuffs. You hold the key.

Take complete control of your life and see,

You have the courage to set yourself free.



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January 21, 2016  Forty Contest by Silent One...

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I was a man, a cold blooded drunk, as they come.
I lived my whole life in a little house on my dad’s farm.
A broke hustler with a defunct bank account,
My career's future was always in doubt.
I married late, at the start of my forties.
It was...

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Forty years fly by, like fast frame film
Flickering pictures of life, it's joys and sorrows
Memories made over time, some sharp, some dim
Each scene defines us, for good or ill
All are part of who we are inside.



Written on 1/22/16...

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Absurd situations amuse me; they get written into poems.
Foolish generalizations about groups of people infuriate me; 
they also get written into poems.
All Irish, all whites, all English, all red-heads, there is no all.  
It makes not a whit of sense.

But the one thing that...

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Have to be somewhere in 40 mins
Enough time to write at least one
Fortunately I’m not using and pens
Else I would not be close to done

Of course you see the form I write
One familiar yet still complicated
It should be easy I write every night
Why my...

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The word of discovery of gold in '49 in Californy raced across the nation!
Why, it was said you could fill a bushel basket full with little botheration!
This appealed to a young feller in Boston town named Clancy Wiggins,
Who forthwith trailed the sun west to help...

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What Great Love, Our Memory Shall Remain

What is left when I am buried and dust
ancient grave upon which a white-stone rests
vanished shades of a future we did trust
as if that one great wave would never crest!

What great love or memory shall remain
when deepest of sleep,...

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Her life begins at forty, 
Shining as the sun so bright; 
The beautiful bride years ago
Remains the same day and night.

Her young and pretty face
Is always an inspiration; 
She brings hope and strength, 
As well as joy and elation.

Everytime I hold her hand, 
So soft,...

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49th & 50th States of the union
Hawaii and Alaska

10102014...

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My father gone these forty years,
my mother gone twenty, I remember...
the acrid smell of tobacco on my mother’s rough fingers,
as she sat, silently, in a predawn Texas coastal town,
my head in her lap, the short-wave radio crackling with static.
She strained to hear the chatter of...

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I was hopelessly smitten in English class,
By this girl with a boyfriend, a challenging impasse.
She had long shiny locks, the color of auburn,
And the curves of a Ferrari, in a hairpin turn.

To win her away from that boyfriend's lair,
Took getting noticed, to have even a...

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Three Forty Five Connection


Wednesday afternoon? I don’t remember
Technology---helper drives me crazy
Not a magic mirror you brought me
Yesterday afternoon? I don’t remember 
Seeing each other, both were smiling

“Does he feel what I feel?”
“I guess he feels”
Or he..., “does she feel what I feel?”
“I guess she feels”
He...

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