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Premium Member Live Fast, Die Young-The 27 Club

The
percent,
one point three.
Thirteen of each
one thousand famous
musicians will likely
die at age twenty seven.
The, so called, Twenty Seven Club.
A tragic portent for young artists.

The truth is...

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Categories: live fast, age,
Form: Etheree



Live Fast But Make It Last...
flowers are butterflies that lost their wings
the net that held you has cut its strings
not much in hand but a walking stick
pulling each other through...

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Categories: live fast, lifelife, life, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Recognition
Recognition
	
	There I am again, 
	in the wall-size mirror 
	at the gym, 
	myself seeing myself, 
	a compulsion of sorts,
	a checking-in 
	to see what has changed.
	
	My bent...

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Categories: live fast, age,
Form: Free verse
It's All You Got, Kid
Don't take any of it too seriously.
That's all I got, kid.

Fling paint on the bedroom walls
if you want to,
and call it interior design with a...

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Categories: live fast, satire, may,
Form: Rhyme
My Little Sisters Life
I sit down
A glimpse of my past flashed
Right in front of my life
Everybody doing what their heart desires
I was in the background watching as life...

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Categories: live fast, feelings, life, little sister,
Form: Bio



Slam Whatz the Point of Getting Old Slam
In reality i should be fat

With the amount of Birthday Cake

In ever increasing cricles i now consume

And i should keep fire extinguisher by my bedside

Because...

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Categories: live fast, slam,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Gives Me Joy-.
Having a peace of mind.
When leaders mentor and give of their time.
See to me joy is a special gift.
I love watching people teaching and yearning...

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Categories: live fast, happiness, inspirational, life, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Once a Wild Child of the Exploding Sixties
Once A Wild Child Of The Exploding Sixties

We were young, waiting universe lay ahead
too foolish to see danger or feel dread.
What of Love? It was...

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Categories: live fast, appreciation, art, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
Free Us
Free as the independent  woman that raised us 
Don’t believe in every story 
Allegories & fables
Fast for mournings ,Now I’m unplugged from the matrix...

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Categories: live fast, adventure, anxiety, arabic, black
Form: Free verse
Dying Young Contest
He was a legend with a great lifetime ahead.       
Was a hell raiser who would never die  in his bed.      
To...

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Categories: live fast, tribute,
Form: Pantoum
Wild Indigo
Live fast, die hard
the way of the broken
emotionally scarred
danger, the stranger's
middle name
where did he come from
will he come here again?

I saw him once
in a dream
that...

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© Bj Fard  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: live fast, art, devotion, fear, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fast Awake
Thank God for 7-27, when my son flew in
Life as it should be will forever begin
Charming little visions of how days are meant
To teach him...

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© ... Gigno  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: live fast, death, family, children, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Wish You Could Be Here
Always resenting
Each moment
Kind of relenting
Cast in cement

	I know You are there
	All of the time
	Vanished in thin air
	At the drop of a dime

		This moment so crucial
		Running...

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Categories: live fast, appreciation, cheer up, depression,
Form: Verse
Rerun
I am, oh,  I  
so tired.   I______
It’s not that I’m   I
missing out on     I_____
my sleep,...

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Categories: live fast, age, nostalgia,
Form: Shape
Get Your Fill
So you don't like what you got?
Then try me out, why not?
You've seen what I've done, but
Why walk when you can run?
I've made mistakes, trust...

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Categories: live fast, life, love, music, passion,
Form: Lyric

Book: Reflection on the Important Things