Best Mid Twenties Poems

Sometimes when am emotionally strangled 
I sit in the corner of my room
and think and blink,
also cry untill my eyes run out of tears..

When I...

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My life started with adoption
then realizing had a stammer as well
struggle through school glad to leave
at fifteen still struggling to tell

First job was electrician so...

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To Mom Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Francine Roberts


At birth the cord was severed, though our hearts stayed connected,
    I’ve seen more beauty in your...

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STRAWBERRY SWEET 
Strawberry scent 
At the picnic place
Late in the afternoon
Birds singing up in the trees
With the joy of spring season`

The basket half empty all...

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If there ever was a way I could easily go back in time,
I may change a few things here and maybe more there,
only a few...

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Who am I a question often I ask
not wanted but adopted when born
then have had stammer all my days
making it struggle to sound my horn

In...

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I am in my mid twenties and life is slowing down, 
I guess I am maturing, but I don't like the turn around. 
Acquaintances today,...

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Beckoning
by Michael R. Burch 
 
Yesterday the wind whispered my name
while the blazing locks
of her rampant mane
lay heavy on mine.
And yesterday
I saw the way
the wind...

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Who ARE You Contest
Sponsor: Catie Lindsey


Hmmmm...Who am I?

I have asked myself this question many times.
My strength from past incidents has depleted
my insecurity. Now, I am...

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She tinkers change someone left on the table
waiting for brunch at the Bluebonnet Bistro,
a hole in the wall with thick on the windows.

Lost deep to...

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Listen To The Warm


"It happens just because we need to want, and to be wanted too when love is here or gone to lie down...

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Headlights messaged through midnight windows 
Curtainless glass unable to subdue the urgency 
Car obtained in street nearby was theirs temporarily
Three hour drive to ship leaving...

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My life started with adoption
then realising had stammer as well
struggle through school glad to leave
at fifteen still struggling to tell

First job was electrician so spark
but...

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I want to be up and happy and feeling my best.
But I don't get it, I wake up and feel depressed.
I have nothing to be...

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Exactly five years ago I lived in a city
that I named as the city of my struggles
quite an imposing brand you would say
but I found...

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