Best Seventy Poems

If anyone is wondering what it's like
To be seventy-eight years young
Gotta tell ya, it's not what I expected
Thought by now I'd have come undone

It's not at all how I thought it would be
This dude's still on top of his game
Still watching all the pretty ladies...

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Oh, you can’t have sex after seventy
Your children just wouldn’t approve
And if your neighbours found out 
You’d probably have to move

No, you can’t have sex after seventy
You’ve got to be young and fit
And every succeding generation
All seem think they invented it.

You just can’t have sex...

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I live in a house of seventy gables 
With twenty kitchens and as many tables.
It's good for both winter and summer weathers, 
'Cuz, in Spring, it flies - it's made of feathers!...

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When Philadelphians wanted to see a basketball game,
the “Warriors” was their first team’s name.
They had several players achieving great fame.
Familiar names included Joe Fulks and Paul Arizin.
They were joined by Tom Gola and Wilt Chamberlain.
However, it was in the year of 1962
when the NBA franchise...

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My Seventy Years...

I woke up, on Wednesday morn,
and couldn't believe,
That it had been seventy years,
since I was born!

I know that the Lord smiled on me,
For there were days, when living, that long,
 I could never foresee.

I am grateful, for every day,
Thank you mom and dad,...

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Parody of Sixteen Going on Seventeen Reprise from the sound of music

I am sixty going on seventy
I’ve got a dicky heart
Surgeon’s been kind and relieved my mind
My ticker he can restart

But I wonder, should the worst happen
Will my life be the same
Energy low ,lost my...

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The Alphabet Contest
Sponsor: Alfred Vassallo

A Is For Anniversary

Their love story began on April twenty-third, nineteen forty-five,
    two young lovers vowed eternity before their family's eyes.

There were hard days ahead living through the Great Depression,
    an economic decline, raise in...

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Seventy years ago today, brave men stormed the shores of Normandy.
They answered the call to arms to protect and defend our precious liberty.
Some didn't reach the shore - they lay cradled in the sea's cold embrace.
Blood that once stained that hallowed place is now cleansed...

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One thought, igniting the dream,
Seven bold souls, steady as they seem.

Ten missions past, Challenger soared,
Twenty-five flights, the program roared.

Tick-tick.
A countdown clear.
The world leans close.
The clock draws near.

Thirty-six degrees—a frozen doubt.
A seal strained tight; the gas leaks out.

Ignition. Roar. Climb. Silence screams.
A nation watches shattered dreams.

Seventy-three...

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This self evident truth that all men are created equal ?
Never quite able as to escape these questions which arrive
Time's comical in ludicrous exposes: today as yesterday imagining
Her high courts turning unto a constitution defining something or another....
Ever evolving his living breathing documents cross fire...

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APETEEN SEVENTY NINE

I don't care if it doesn't matter to you
but it means a whole fuc**ng lot to me
you want to treat old black Jim as if he's a gorilla in a zoo
while I want to set the human being free

his grandfather spent years picking...

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Seventy Seven
Written: by Tom Wright
1/15/2016


77 Feels Like, 
Going From Fine China 
To Styrofoam Cups and Paper Plates;

The gourmet meals, life formerly volunteered,
Have vanished from the menu, leaving unexhausted items 
I’m found without appetency for.
C/enter>...

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Seventy Seven
Written: by Tom Wright
1/15/2016


77 Feels Like, 
Going From Fine China 
To Styrofoam Cups and Paper Plates;

The gourmet meals, life formerly volunteered,
Have vanished from the menu, leaving unexhausted items 
I’m found without appetency for.
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As I get closer to turning seventy, I'm now looking closer at my longevity.
The 'twilight years" are quickly approaching, my parts, now old are boldly encroaching. I'm running out of time to right a wrong before I, too, sing my swan song. Before the angels...

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