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Premium Member Older Than Dirt
When I was a young lad in the prime of life
Never thought I'd still be around
When my driver's license said, “older than dirt!”
And my mind...

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Categories: older than dirt, age,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Older Than Dirt
When I was a young lad in the prime of life
Never thought I'd still be around
When my driver's license said, “older than dirt!”
And my mind...

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Categories: older than dirt, humorous,
Form: Quatrain
Older Than Dirt
Older than dirt, 1932 in May
long before I saw the light of day, 
The Moon Rocket was published, stellar piece. 
staccato was its mark of...

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Categories: older than dirt, 11th grade, me, mom,
Form: Quatrain
How Old?
Time--it moves like a scalded cat, 
And I--I creep like a snail.
Like a long tailed cat in a lawn mower's path,
I am nearing the end...

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Categories: older than dirt, funny, life, time,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Mother
Generous to a fault,
stubborn as a mule;
a bit older than dirt
but as a general rule-

we treasure your smile,
love your sense of humor;
we applaud your *****
and...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: older than dirt, humor, mother,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Old and Holding Aces
Old And Holding Aces

I am old, youth lost does so deeply hurt
no more whiskey drinking brawls,
now slow and tired, feeling older than dirt
I no longer...

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Categories: older than dirt, age, funny, journey, old,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Some Danced Down Lanes, In That Hippie Holocaust
Some Danced Down Lanes, In That Hippie Holocaust

Thoughts of those days when so many felt all was lost 
some danced down lanes, in that "hippie...

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Categories: older than dirt, america, creation, dance, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Understandable Attraction
From a small accident I didn't foresee
Again, I see dirt all over me
It's no new alert
I'm older than dirt
So that's why it's attracted to me!...

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© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: older than dirt, conflict, funny, imagery, introspection,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Each Night He Heard Steps of Death's Forward Guard
Each Night He Heard Steps Of Death's Forward Guard
   (Stand Back, I Got This One His Muse Cried)

He was now old, ancient, older...

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Categories: older than dirt, appreciation, art, creation, imagination,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member My Dad Loved Me Forever
My Dad Loved Me Forever

I asked him why this and why that
he would smile and adjust his old hat
Answer all my questions and be pleased
with...

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Categories: older than dirt, best friend, dad, death,
Form: Rhyme
The Creepy Sneak
He's older than dirt and should be dead
but yet he keeps walking around filling us with dread
wears the same dark hooded outfit everyday
showing fashion is...

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Categories: older than dirt, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Knowing Is Silly
If dust could age it would be dirt
And dirt becomes us in ways we are so dirty
If our minds could grow would it burst?
It would...

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Categories: older than dirt, change, confusion, environment, fun,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member The Disciplined Way
It's gotten really tough to find an entire family that's genuinely "tight" - and a BIG part of the problem is texting rather than calling...

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Categories: older than dirt, family,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tossing Pennies
When I was young and still in my twenties
Thought eighty was ancient, never thought eventually
I'd be older than dirt
Instead of a squirt
Just yesterday against the...

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Categories: older than dirt, nostalgia,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Just Tossing Pennies
When I was young and still in my twenties
Thought eighty was ancient, never thought eventually
I'd be older than dirt
Instead of a squirt
Just yesterday against the...

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Categories: older than dirt, fun,
Form: Limerick

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