Best Old As Time Poems

When I gaze far off into the night sky
The chaos is not pleasing to the eye.
Seems there was never an overall plan
When the beginning of...

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Not Today

When memories begin to fade
when I break promises I’ve made
and life no longer seems so gay
I shall be old, but not today.

For I have...

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They come from a different era
where patriotism is a just cause
they would fight for the true blue
never mind who was right or wrong

they stood staunch...

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I ran by this thing with haste, that malevolent beast as to school I went
Centered In a beautiful field i never played, because we all...

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The first time I painted the old red barn

I was twenty years old and the skies were blue.


There it sat in the middle of the...

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While walking through a hospital one day, a veteran I did see
He was in a wheelchair with both legs missing, and he did it for...

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See the old man sitting on the bench
Looking thru the wired fence
He sits there every day
Watching the children come and play
Once he was young and...

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When I grow old
Will I forget to remember
All my regrets?
Will I be kind to myself
With memories
Of a universe of time
Forfeited to fear?
When I grow old
Will...

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Hello Darkness, my old friend
My arms out stretched
I'm here again
Inside my dream I walked alone
Inside the night I roamed.
Reaching out to all who hear
Reaching out...

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He lies on the living room carpet
Conscious, groggy but awake
No signs of injury, lightly moaning
Leaning over him, how to help?
He fell last Thursday too
Better letting...

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what, I wonder, did you unlock
winter songs of summer birds
in a dingy cell with clawed-at walls
in drawing rooms where princes died
and all the soldiers marching...

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Out apon the sea.
Its hard to catch some relife.
Or find some time to set willy free.

It's a priates life no need to back your 
bags.
Just...

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ain't it a shame

when hate lynches 
a 14 year old Colored boy
in 1955 Mississippi
and blows away the dreams of
four innocent little ***** girls 
in 1963...

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OUR BABY GIRL TURNS 21

ON 1ST JULY 1990~ THE ANGELS DID SOMETHING ALMIGHTY
FROM HEAVEN THEY SENT US OUR LIFE-LONG DESIRE-A PRECIOUS DAUGHTER TO LOVE AND...

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Give me that old time religion the way that it used to be,
Not that I’m looking to burn a witch or cast her into the...

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