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Best Old Fashioned Poems

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Old Fashioned Writing
there is a path leading to a journal of time, 
it reveals beauty within verses of fine rhyme- 
it shields her pain when she desires...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: old fashioned, poetry,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Old Fashioned Christmas
It’ll be an old fashioned Christmas,
with Santa due down the chute.
I bet he Purells his reindeer, 
and Lysols his hazmat suit.

It’s an old fashioned Christmas.
We’ll...

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Categories: old fashioned, 11th grade, care, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Amberina Ballerina
A born lioness my untamed heart? ha! 
a mouse, this pulsing token ruled by unruly wants
at times given, traded or stolen - sometimes
thrown down on...

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Categories: old fashioned, destiny, emotions, inspiration, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silence of a Poet
"When the Grim Reaper asked for my spirit,
I told him to take my poetic pen.
He walked away smiling, leaving me illiterate."

In the mystical wilderness of...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: old fashioned, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Equinox
As the weather softly turns
Beckoning in the Equinox
Clusters of colourful bulbs
Dance and sway in the breeze
Eagles swoop up on thermals
Flying high until they are specks
Golden...

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Categories: old fashioned, spring,
Form: Abecedarian



Premium Member To Speak of Women
Men ...
  Giving advice to OTHER men, on women
    That's funny ... ironic "funny", I mean, (though I did chuckle)
 ...

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Categories: old fashioned, appreciation, love, relationship, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Your Twilight Years
When you reach your twilight years,
It is important to keep an active mind,
Do everything possible to minimize fears
Leave resentments and regrets far behind,

Try not to...

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Categories: old fashioned, age, cheer up, encouraging,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Culinary Sonnet
Figs stuffed with proscuitto and mascarpone cheese,
a plate of bacon wrapped scallops and pineapple.
French onion soup is bound to please
or garlic steamed mussels with which...

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Categories: old fashioned, food,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Apple Doesn'T Fall Far From the Tree
You can see him now, dirty as a horse
that slipped in the mud, planting petunias
with that infamous shamrock thumb

(Irish from his Pop   ...

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Categories: old fashioned, adventure, crazy, cute love,
Form: Free verse
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: old fashioned, beauty, body, faith, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Make Do and Mend
Make Do and Mend,

Years ago we had jobs
We had fun and money in our pocket
Things were much better then
Once you could go out the door
And...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: old fashioned, community,
Form: Verse
Who Am I?
I am 

The red ripe apple of the sinful tree,
The honey suckle of the bumble bee.

The pink blushed rose Of the secret garden,
The stubborn spoilt...

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Categories: old fashioned, lifegirl,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Three Doors
I see three doors before me.
The one to the left is blue, a beautiful lupis blue
with ornate lacework in its center.
Parisian-esque, it looks likes an...

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Categories: old fashioned, metaphor,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Mr James
His wise council and kind patience bolstered my resolve
to overcome my youthful woes and nightmarish troubles solve.
His humanity may have saved my life. His memory...

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Categories: old fashioned, education, encouraging, feelings,
Form: Prose
Premium Member My Favorite President Is Yet To Be
My favorite President is yet to be
  He may well not go down in history
For he'll do what really needs to be done
 ...

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Categories: old fashioned, america, anger, how i
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things