Best Hundredth Poems

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A hundred years of age—a birthday rarely reached; 
He never got to fifty, and fifty years are gone
And more. That afternoon the TV set was on—
I wasn’t even five years old—and while we watched

A Fractured Fairy Tale, they broke in with the news
And straightway, all...

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I feel you hovering around me,
your presence, your spirit,
a feeling, like fingertips 
lightly grazing the skin. 
Ten years have passed 
since you shook off 
the coils of this world.  
Your presence is not 
some ethereal spirit
condemned to haunt a 
place of past transgression, 
but...

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It was quiet in the meeting room
just down the hall, as I came in.
I knew that she would be, as well.

And there she was, propped in her wheel chair,
body in pink jumpsuit, cocked
far to the side, not quite asleep.

For her, there was no false facade.
One...

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We all I say things that we don't mean- sometimes lack consideration.

But once those things are recognized-
(shouldn't) we seek reconciliation? 

The truth of that, it lies within-
the depth of someones love. 

And value comes unveiled- 
when hardships shared, come push to shove.

So if one, of...

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Once Upon A Time- 
For now the hundredth time it seems.

A ray of hope shines through-
And it illuminates my dreams.

The fear arises quickly-
As it builds up in my chest 

I pause and wonder now-
What separates him from the rest? 

Am I obliviously blinded- 
By his...

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We are the same, but oh so different-
both intrigued by life's strange flow.

Inquisitive as to how-
my Hellish life's led to this "home".

He'd shown light upon my scars- 
in ways I'd never seen before.

He did not dismiss their depths- 
but led me to so much more.

So...

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