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Premium Member Getting Old Is Getting Old
I've grown a bit slower, I've grown a bit fatter,
  my mission each hour: relieving my bladder.
When I was a youngster, I had no...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: getting old, age, old,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Monoku Quotes
Don't dwell on what could have been, better it is to dwell on what can be... 
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Never give up trying, or your life book will...

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Categories: getting old, wisdom,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member A Good Cry
i wait at the river for the cry of the loon
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Categories: getting old, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Man Under Stress, a Collaboration With Francis Crasto
My appreciation Francis Crasto for allowing me to collaborate with you as your 'psychiatrist' on ‘A MAN UNDER STRESS’- A great sequel to your recent...

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Categories: getting old, humor, rap, stress,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member This Buds For You
-This buds for you!-
-It takes one to know one!-
-I know you are, but what am I?-

A second hand, on my stopwatch, going nowhere!
You are a...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: getting old, abuse, addiction, anger, conflict,
Form: Free verse



Diamonds
Diamonds

We all have so many diamonds that we own,
but we think of them as glass or bits of stone.
We often sell them as cheap pieces...

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Categories: getting old, age, allusion,
Form: Rubaiyat
Premium Member A Summer Snowstorm Cold
As I was sitting in my rowboat...at a pond at Martha's Vineyard 
I was fishing with my headphones on...listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd
Suddenly, a chilling wind...my...

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Categories: getting old, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Letter
"Dear Time"
Thank you for being patient, 
Thank you for understanding I'm human, after all.
Forgive me for all the mischievous prank calls. 
Much of what I...

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Categories: getting old, beauty, body, faith, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Genetically Modified America
I want to be paid in Silver.
I wish to be paid in Gold.
Understand our fiat Dollars,
Are not being backed by Gold

I don't want your Vaccines.
I...

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Categories: getting old, addiction, anger, freedom, money,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Growing Old and Brittle
To wake up with the rising sun
Wishing me old bones stay in bed
No longer do I feel to run
Life is all but over and done

I...

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Categories: getting old, age, growth, imagination, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Own Way
Along this season’s mid quarter-time,
I find myself wandering between 
The raw of night’s wanton  pleasure
And the sacredness from morn awakened:
Late evenings replay a dancing...

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Categories: getting old, adventure, life, self,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I'M Just Getting Started
Born in Madrid, in fifty nine,
A military Kid, 3rd of 7 in the assembly line;
They named me Michael, but I answer to Wedge,
A Master Sergeant’s...

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Categories: getting old, age, career, children, family,
Form: Rhyme
Rub a Dub Dub
JEANIEMAC
Rub a dub dub two in a tub.
Where did the soap go?
He lay back flat
Right on his back.
While she fiddled about below.

TIM SMITH
Rub a dub...

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Categories: getting old, basketball, beauty, friendship,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Women of the Soup
The women of the soup have been attacked again this morning
the King is on his soapbox, with profanity and warnings
His credibility is gone as he...

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Categories: getting old, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Hand Me a Crepe, Myrtle
As the garden grows…


This one is For Sythia  
       Rose may not agree  
She’s the one who...

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Categories: getting old, flower, fun, funny, garden,
Form: Rhyme

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