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Best Second Wind Poems

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Second Wind
I wanna live again
be an ageless punk
Have meaningless sex
before I get too drunk
I wanna dance on the hood
of a 'Luxury car'
Right after a fight 
at...

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Categories: second wind, song-drug,
Form: Lyric



....The Title ^fight....
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Leaning against the ropes, eyes swollen half closed

Its been a long fight....

Blood dripping from a dislocated jaw

Body beaten and bruised; taking a few more blows

Crowd...

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Categories: second wind, faith, love, passion, time
Form: I do not know?
Wall Street
Set upon the new world stage within the burning fires of hell. Silently posed factions of the elite, suppress the true inherit of Mother Earth....

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Categories: second wind, political, slam, social, war,
Form: Epic
Premature Ex

An old Ethiopian veteran of the love wars 
once told a newlywed Kenyan kid:
If you want the infant marriage to survive,
make it to the golden...

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Categories: second wind, allegory, marriage, philosophy, truth,
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member Do Not Blink ... a Fast and Sad Tale.
How do I pen a cliche’
so it isn’t the cliche’, 
but the reality.

My skin has soft little wrinkles
that look like ripples on water. 
Yesterday it...

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Categories: second wind, life, philosophy, seasons, image,
Form: Bio



Tired
Second Wind
- where are you?

If I slow down, will
you catch up?

Can't stop 

Afraid to stop

Must go on

Find me - before I
drop!...

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© Lyn Murray  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: second wind, repetition, work,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Ode to Porches
On porches bathed in brilliant sun
enduring friendships are begun
as neighbors air their hurts and joys        
and children learn...

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Categories: second wind, friendship, life, love,
Form: Ode
A Taste of Your Own Medicine
7/8/17

Laughing when others crumble
So very far from trustful
Time I cause you trouble
And make you struggle
Whether or not it makes you humble

A swinging pendulum
I'm being genuine
Here...

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Categories: second wind, dark, horror, perspective, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Haunting Wooded Tale
,It's like some long lost fairy tale 
That's handed down through time
But couldn't be, as you will see
For this strange tale is mine.

I chose to...

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Categories: second wind, adventure, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
The Alpha Bodybuilder
In this world of realization the bodybuilder acknowledges that he was in a past life 
and is now a warrior god. She the bodybuilder was...

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Categories: second wind, art, history, life, pain,
Form: I do not know?
Where I Belong
Ya hear rappers talkin' this and that,
talkin' **** and ass,
all that ****s just crass,
and when I write my lines all my rhymes have class
 
They're...

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Categories: second wind, hip hop, integrity,
Form: Blank verse
Caught In a Swell
Beware the distant storm, you tiny ripple
Ignore the tempest and fettered thought
Blame naked shells and open cockles 
For only they to the sand this anger...

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Categories: second wind, fear, sea, storm, together,
Form: Quatrain
Down For the Count
Down For The Count
By MEH3

1....2....3
That was a devastating blow

4....5....6
He is beat up, defeated it is OVER!

7....8....9
Hold on
What do we have here?

Is he getting back on...

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Categories: second wind, courage, encouraging, faith, god,
Form: Narrative
Bare Feet
having bare feet makes me feel like
summer
when days are longer
when I get a second wind
and run around
feet trampling ants trampling ground

having bare feet makes me...

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Categories: second wind, anger, appreciation, dedication, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spring Says, Yes You Can
As we spoke to our son last month, it felt like 'A Twilight Zone'.           ...

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Categories: second wind, life, spring,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs